Topic

Property Investment?

I'm thinking about players able to own several houses, and sell houses directly to others. The 'no more currants after level 20' feature will hopefully make sure no one will be rich enough to own all the houses in the place. I'm also thinking, how about rental? When I first started playing, I would have LOVED some place I could rent at cheap prices. And maybe, we could just buy a house, plant stuff in it, and make a small profit! I'm talking about a player dominated realty. I want to play with property investment, and I find this element is missing from this otherwise complete but altered version of RL society. But really, I guess I'm just begging to be able to have a few more houses, as there are several other properties that I'll love to own, but refuse to sell my current house for.

Posted 18 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • wher CAN I buy a house under 4000? where can I see where to buy houses
    Posted 14 months ago by Mr.I capture pigs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Here is the Real Estate listings.  For this one specifically there are some under 4k houses.
    Posted 14 months ago by Jojin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't think rentals would work, to be honest. If someone is dying for a house, the apartments are exceptionally cheap and it doesn't take long at all to get the money together for a cave or treehouse. 
    Posted 14 months ago by Lyn Frog, Esq Subscriber! | Permalink
  • free game.  temp glitch buys house then never plays again. multiply this by a lot. hopefully most people keep playing but I think at some point things have to open up and go back on the market.  Rent takes care of this.  You could pay in advance but there would be a date in the future when more would be due.
    Posted 14 months ago by Artilect Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Most of us already have rental problems to worry about xD. Also this would be prohibitive to newer players if they wanted a house in a relative close proximity to what they wanted to do. Look at the state of the housing in the Groddle region at the moment and imagine just one person owning all the housing  in just one area. That's bad :(.  

    In regards to Artilects comments, I don't mind if property rent goes back to Tiny Speck so that houses are time-owned, heck this would also ease up housing in really bad areas if Glitchens decide to leave. 

    If they were player-owned, whats to say the landlord would not leave the game himself? Locking out anyone who wanted to rent by not being online to authorize it.
    Posted 14 months ago by Opportunity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You do still get currants after level 20, just not EVERY level anymore. So far I've gotten them at level 25 and 30. Also, this does nothing to prevent players from getting a ton of currants because you can pick them up fairly easily by selling lots of stuff to tool vendors (which is what a lot of people do). This is a sharply inflationary economy because there's tons of things that are adding currants but very little removing them, so if housing worked this way the prices would become ridiculous because of all the currants flying around.
    Posted 14 months ago by Toksyuryel Subscriber! | Permalink