I joined the server and love the people, and the changes you made, but the only real problem is there is absolutely no spaces available for a farm plot. Last night when I spent hours running around I saw scarecrows and gazebos, and a few active farms, but so many of them just empty where people have the land tied up and it's not being used.
I want to stay on the server, because again this server gets rid of all the retail's bullshit, but one of the main reasons I play Archeage is due to the farming and land.
Thank you for your time.
This is a NORMAL experience. This has been known since the birth of this private server.
You cannot expect to be a new player on an active server and just waltz up to ANY housing zone you wish expecting there to be free spots to place your land.
This needs to be added as a AA Hint on the Loading Screen to remind people everyday that this is the case and to let new players know that their experience on this server will be vastly different from that in live.
At least that way we would not see a new "REEE THERE IS NO LAND" posts every 5 days.
Could maybe manually set a max price on property sales(Where we'd use normally manually set a price). If it was cheap or maybe in line with higher tax rates, it could actually deter people from even selling houses as it wouldn't really be worth it financially.
Nope nope nope nope. Absolutely not.
Creating artificial limit on the price of something that has vastly different worth depending on it's location? No thank you.
In theory, a global cap across all properties would not be that difficult to implement, but, building artificial caps on a per zone basis... very funny
Furthermore, instituting max price on these things only gives power to the already rich. Now, instead of a free market settling the prices, the rich will just buy whatever they want left right and centre before even new person may think of farming gold and purchasing.
Further you want to have higher tax rates?
The landgrabber would just use that as justification to INCREASE the gold price they charged to sell you the land, demo to certed. If used in conjuction with your proposed max price, well then we'd know properties would be always for sale for max price...
And... if you see the following post:
Why not make the cost of land increase with each additional property you have. But I'm not sure how much that'll help as tax certs are dirt cheap right now.
Any more increase than what is
already implemented in game (starting at having more than 3 properties and maxing out the tax rate at 7+ properties) is punishing EVERYBODY. This would be versus the TEENY TINY percentage of players that are being Real-Estate Agents.
There was already
another proposition to change the taxation rates. There will be absolutely none of that here for it is the worst possible response to a problem that does not exist while only hurting normal players at large.
the real problem isnt those that have a lot of land and uses them (I do have a lot and use all). There are tons of people that are pre paing taxes for at least 6 month and havent used it and I never saw them around. There are at least 3 of my neighbors that have 5+ lands (16x, 24x, treehouses) and they dont use them since I started playing this game (7 month ago).
I do not have any problem with land, I just think that there are some people that are holding a lot of land and they never play the game.
I mean there was a thread about people complaining HUGELY that there was going to be Weekly Guild XP requirements. They was saying that it was unfair to charge ppl to have to upkeep something that they already earned or worked for. Look what happened, Devs saw the angry comminity, and changed the requirements for the better...
In the same vein then, are you saying that ppl you "never see around" don't deserve to keep their properties? Yes you are.
Players worked for their properties no matter how many months ago they may have acquired it, or hours spent scouring land grab.
Just because they do not use does not mean you can take away. This is esp. reflected in Devs attitude towards the guild xp requirements that I alluded to earlier (they were proposing taking away whole guild levels a
It is their right to do with it what they wish, if that means leaving it empty then that is their perogative. If anything, they should have set their land to guild so that their fellow members could take advantage of the empty plot, but who knows what is happening there...
I fel bad for u, ur ignorance and gredynes are at at a higer lvl .I miself own 5 plots of land , i was lucki to find 2 spots free and i put mi farms and then i bought the other 3 but that was few months ago when a demo 24 was like 2k gold , i see now ppl are seling for like 3 4 k .A good whay to clear some land would be if nuya wont be able to buy or own land in harany and viceversa , also in mi zone i see some properties that are not being used for like months , owners onli pay tax and thats all .
You are saying that ppl can't own property outside their home continent? what of Auroria then? Should only PN own lands there in their castle'd zones?
I feel bad that you thinking that your thoughts are the only possible thoughts. Everyone has their own way to play, that does not make them anymore right or wrong.
Further, it is useful to have houses on other continents to use a Portals -- this is especially true of the housing Islands in the ocean.
And regarding seeing land empty... I already addressed someone else saying that above