(12-12-2014, 07:28 PM)C Wrote: I used to play Eve Online. A lot of Eve Online. Eve has a reputation (richly deserved) for having a trollish and predatory player community. This is exactly the sort of thing that the Eve player base would loudly applaud.
Let's not kid ourselves, E.V.E. applauds infiltrating a corporation and making one's way up the ranks only to later steal entire fleets' worth of ships out from under the corp's noses. Recuperating the initial investment of a plot in XIV is nothing in comparison, and E.V.E. players would either laugh or scoff at the suggestion.
That's all this is, really. FCs and individuals "selling" first-come first-serve rights. I don't condone it, but hey, folks are trying to make back the gil they spent.
If anything, we should be shaking our heads at how poorly implemented housing is, such that an individual or FC cannot sell their house to another individual or FC. Instead, you are forced to demolish the existing structure, which in turn forces the new tenant to spend even more in order to rebuild the same exact structure, all in the name of additional gil sinks.