OLYMPUS HOUSE MARKET

[EVOLLL 5]

the server is so low pop most of the day, 0 cops 1 medic & less than 30 civs yet EVERY HOUSE is taken in almost every area.

certain towns are GHOST TOWNS.

Luckily i have houses to do runs if i needed too but for player/gangs who want to expand business (which in turn makes for more interactions between players) almost impossible. 

even i’m bored doing a certain run, want to buy a ingredients house and a pro house somewhere else to do a different run and see another part of the map it’s literally impossible. all the best houses are gone and have been for YEARS.

the supply is low and demand is high anywhere half decent which has let me make easy flips on the realtor and make money but still i check almost every day and most hard restarts and certain areas and houses i’ve NEVER seen a single house EVER be for sale or be used. 

people log on, pay taxes & log off.

i know a wipe would probably kill the server completely but some sort of rework or tax increase that actually eventually increases enough over a couple months that would force a sale for people who stop playing as much or for people to have to play and actually use a house to create income for the investment to be worth it.

this doesn’t really affect me as i have a good set up but i recently had some friends hop on to play for the first time with me and they started to enjoy it, got invested, learned the game, got better, started to earn money, then got told they will never get a house in certain town or areas as they been IDLE and UNOCCUPIED for years only to have them quit within 2 weeks as they were stuck running out 1/2cs and the novelty of doing small cargo vans and box trucks wore off.

i don’t mind supply being low and demand being high as i can benefit from it but depends if new player retention is something the server values maybe a rework could get looked into

i know it’s been like this forever but i miss server 2 being up and having an insane set up on there and in the past year 0 of my old houses have popped back up i check all the time as id buy in a heart beat just for the nostalgia 

o7

[austroooo 23]

its not "o7" its o/

[billdroid 971]

Easiest fix is require X amount of hours per 45 days to keep the house. 

[Pseudonym 141]

a potential solution could be introduce some sort of rent system. the primary intent of this would be to allow newer players/players that haven't gotten lucky with houses yet, to be able to use better houses which are currently being unused.

a giant unintended side effect could be that there is now a MASSIVE influx of landlords, so you'd need to balance that so it's not super profitable for the landlords, but profitable enough that they would rent them out, so that more players can actually start doing stuff.

[Element_ 621]

The amount of players I know that log in once a month just to pay house tax on their prime real estate so no one can get it is sickening. I'm all in favor of implementing a system to discourage that kind of behavior, maybe a certain amount of playtime per week in 45 days or face the consequence of losing millions in house tax.

Tammy for example has 1.4 bil and owns some of the best Kavala square real estate but only logged 4 times in the past two months with the longest session being 42 min just to pay house tax and log out. Its very fucked but I think finding an amicable solution would be the best for the current real estate situation on the server.

[EVOLLL 5]

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1 hour ago, billdroid said:

Easiest fix is require X amount of hours per 45 days to keep the house. 

i feel like this is the obvious one, would also help the auction house market too & might force people who know theyre gonna stop playing to empty a house and sell gear inside before going MIA i know people have items that have been collecting dust for 5+ years.. the taxes do increase over time i think a better way would be for taxes to increase exponentially and maybe player interactions could reset or stall this like a hour or kill quota... its hard tho cos u should also be able to step away for a month if u want too but i guess if its the same for everyone when you come back to play simillar house will probably be available

1 hour ago, Element_ said:

The amount of players I know that log in once a month just to pay house tax on their prime real estate so no one can get it is sickening. I'm all in favor of implementing a system to discourage that kind of behavior, maybe a certain amount of playtime per week in 45 days or face the consequence of losing millions in house tax.

Tammy for example has 1.4 bil and owns some of the best Kavala square real estate but only logged 4 times in the past two months with the longest session being 42 min just to pay house tax and log out. Its very fucked but I think finding an amicable solution would be the best for the current real estate situation on the server.

maybe everyone gets 1 key thats perm and immune to inflation but the rest sky rocket the less you play @ Tammy  lemme get some keys pls

1 hour ago, Pseudonym said:

a potential solution could be introduce some sort of rent system. the primary intent of this would be to allow newer players/players that haven't gotten lucky with houses yet, to be able to use better houses which are currently being unused.

a giant unintended side effect could be that there is now a MASSIVE influx of landlords, so you'd need to balance that so it's not super profitable for the landlords, but profitable enough that they would rent them out, so that more players can actually start doing stuff.

cool idea imagine if i could sublet a 4c into two 2cs to 2 people and split the inventory

[Eno 6]

There was an idea once to develop a stat page where you could make offers on unavailable houses, to make selling and buying houses easier. Not sure what happened to that.

[The Sovereign 219]

22 minutes ago, Eno said:

There was an idea once to develop a stat page where you could make offers on unavailable houses, to make selling and buying houses easier. Not sure what happened to that.

It was my idea.  It was passed.  That was around as furcon so i think the dev team just spaced it.