The whole housing system is beyond ****ed to be honest. I just went through much of the same process because I thought I couldn't bind a character at a house on a different Ywain (because when I tried it it popped my character back to his native Ywain. Not sure how that happened but I got it working okay finally). I found 3 lots on Ywain1 and the cheapest was 50p, the others were 72p and 80p respectively - and I knew someone was going to pick em up before I did since I don't have that kind of ludicrous cash on hand. Luckily I found out I could use my house on Ywain10 for all my Ywain1 characters, so I am not stuck with too bad a situation, provided the bug doesn't return.
What they need to add IMHO:
* When people are transporting characters from a dead server, the system needs to warn them there is a housing shortage and suggest a different Ywain. Ywain1 shouldn't even be an option (no server that has more than say 60% of its housing filled should be available in fact).
* They need a system that allows us to freely transfer characters from one Ywain to another to let us spread out a bit
* They need to ensure that a CM that has filled up with money and needs to be emptied stops appearing in the market search and all of the items on that vendor are delisted as well. This will save everyone the long ride to Stavgaard only to discover they can't buy the item they want (Happened to me twice so far this week). People are apparently using this to avoid paying rent entirely (since the house won't vanish if the CM has filled up with money). Suggestion: if the CM is full and the rent isn't paid - delete the CM and its contents. People will check more often and this problem will go away really quick for those who are unobservant
* They need Channelers to allow us to switch Ywains in each market of each zone, so that when you ride to a house and THEN discover you forgot to change Ywains or got the wrong one, you can more easily rectify the situation
* Of course they need to fix the housing information on their pathetically broken website (I would be firing someone if I was in charge at Mythic, for moving to a new website that is only 10% built. Its so unprofessional its laughable. What did they do, hire some kids in highschool to redo the website?). There is no enjoyable gameplay to be had from riding around the housing zones trying to find a free lot - as I did for about 4 hours today.
* Condemned houses should disappear a lot faster than they apparently do. Say give the owner 2 weeks to pay the rent. Give them a popup message when they log in on any character on that account to let them know (regardless of Ywain#).
* Make us designate which character bank account money from the merchant will go to, or make it default to the character who owns the house. If money isn't picked up from the merchant in 3 weeks, dump it to that character's account.
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Sneev (SM), Rhejan (Hunter), Skraeling (Warrior), Fulkk (Healer), Erlennd (RM), Hasting (SB), Nithling (Cave Shammy) - 50s
Hratlann (Skald), Grimstainn (Shaman), Sighildr (Valkyrie) - up and coming
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