(10-23-2015, 12:46 PM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: Nobody's saying Player X couldn't come online before Player Y and try to buy a vacant lot. Unless, of course, Player X happens to have a job, or go to college, etc...
What we're saying is that if Player Y already has a house and Player X does not, given the finite number of houses and the number of game features which are gated behind having a house it's unethical for Player Y to buy a second one.Â
Cutthroat tactics of "you didn't get to it before I did, so now I have a second house, nyeahhh to you" do not foster a community. A community is people who work together for the general benefit of those participating.Â
Yep, it's totally possible that some non-RPC player who owns additional houses may come in and buy a house anyway. Oh well if that happens. They're not someone claiming to be a part of our community.
It's also totally possible that an RPC player who has enough gold to buy more than one house could buy available houses purely for the sake of transferring them to a roleplayer who can repay the cost. That's benefitting our community.
One player owning multiple houses benefits nobody. You can be logged onto only one of your alts at a time, which means that unless you have friends making use of one of your houses in your absence, you can only be making use of one house at any given moment. Meanwhile, the other house is sitting unused - the fact that you decorated it is meaningless if nobody is using it. There's also zero game mechanics which require one to own multiple houses.
tl;dr - Owning multiple houses is detrimental to the potential gameplay and RP of others for the sake of no actual benefit to oneself. Let's not make excuses for that kind of behavior.
I do apologize for poking holes in your statement here, but the end of it isn't necessarily true.
Medium House: FC house.
Personal Small: FC Tavern hangout
Personal Small owned by alt in different residential district: Personal home for character X
Ad infinitum.
One can easily justify multiple houses if one wants or has the friend base to make use of it all. I know I did when I was chock full o' housing.
-Hatter
Specifically, we had the FC house, the personal home for my character in LB, a teahouse and spa in Mist and my alt had a bar and fighting ring for events.
What a colossal waste of time and energy.
