Mind that this is a rather cheap way of getting more people on B. I am not gonna do this on A until both servers attract the same amount of people.

What I had in mind is a variation on the current rentable houses, in which you can take a house for 4 days, and as long as you pay your rent again within another 4 days you are able to keep your house. I hope this makes sure you don't own a house that you don't use. The rest of the routine would be like the current houses.

It's a bit of a bugger to script, so I am trying to figure out if there's demand before I start with this.

O, I can easily keep track of the number of days you own a house and increae the rent exponentially.

That's why I chose 4 days. If you don't want to go to your house at least once every 4 days you don't deserve a house.

That's basically the same as demanding a rent refresh after 4 days, isn't it?

But even once every four day's would be a bit much. But I believe I made my point on that matter, and it's your choice.

That's why I suggested the bank method, so if you're terminally not using it, you lose it and it's expensive, but if you miss a time period due to RL crap and are usually in your house, you only lose some money out of a hypothetical 'bank' and retain ownership.

I expect a few people to grab the houses up and keep them forever. For a server of Amia's size I think the current rentable houses (till reset) work better, or you would need a lot to meet the demand.

That seems a rather difficult way to do a simple thing? I just want to make sure people aren't taking a house for months without visiting it.

Midn that I am not interested in a fair share. I want more people on B, and this is a bribe.

What if they take the house, go back to make sure it looks active, but just spend most of their time on A?

Mind that your name is on the front door...

Well, then you got a house on a server that you don't use. I'd not see that as a good addition to your peer resume. Mind that your name is on the front door...

A concept that is purposefully unfair is flawed from the get go and has no place on amia.

This should be designed with fairness in mind, with the houses available to everyone equally. If not it will frankly suck.

The current rent able houses you can use while you are online, but while you are gone, someone else can rp there. That's good.

That's the purpose of my example. You have the houses expensive (not ludicrously so), so anyone who doesn't use it is paying through the nose, while those who do only have to pay the start-up cost, which means it becomes cheaper per unit time the more you use it.

Well, that's two more hits on B.

Anyway, any more doom scenarioes?

I want more people on B, and this is a bribe.

Problems I see:

I) People buying and not using (i.e. being bastards and hoarding);
II) Availability is too limited;
III) It not being available to many people (see I, II or because of cost);
IV) The system being unpopular (can't honestly believe this will happen personally).

Not exactly an exhaustive list, though.

I) would be my main concern, this could be fixed (if possible) by making it if you dont spend 50% of your logged in time in the house you lose it to squatters or an angry umberhulk burrowed in and made it unlivable or Landlord rents it to someone esle asuming you are dead.

Of course, who want to sit in a house alone. *shrug*

I really wonder... my question was "is there demand?". Instead I get all kinds of negative comments about hoarding people, doom prophecies of what will go wrong, worries about unfairness, etc.

I suggest you folks take a look at yourself and wonder what this says about you as a person. Sorry to be a bit direct here, but I think this is a bigger issue than somebody 'owning' a house for a few days too little or too many. Why for godsake are you so bloody paranoid?

Even if you are cynical... all that can go wrong is somebody squatting a house without using it. So what? It's not like the heavens will fall down on us.

Well, when we give people faction forums or area,s if it's not used, we take it from them.

It could lead to point III was the suggestion I was making.

Indeed. And will the heavens fall down on us because we don't have a house for everybody?

I really wonder... my question was "is there demand?".

Where are you planning to put the houses? And yes, I would rent a house for 4 days. B is empty anyway so I don't see how people hoarding houses is going to hurt anyone's RP.

Indeed, and that's why there will be some check on it. It's a bit of an extension of the rental system we have now which uses a few resets as a rent time, not one.

Buy the house then sit on A was my thinking.