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real estate market

We should be able to sell our houses ourselves so that we can make currents, "flip" properties by filling them with piggies and trees and full gardens. Maybe there could be a deed object that could be sold to other players that would transfer ownership of a property?

Posted 3 years ago by fluorescence Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I was just thinking about this. There are two ways of buying items: from vendors (at a predictable price) and at auction (at a price set by the market). But there is only the real estate listings when it comes to the houses. Why not open a resale home market? Players could add value to houses by planting trees, leaving animals & items. And desirable real estate would gain value. If home improvements are coming to the game, these too would present an opportunity to fix up a home. Devs could still indirectly control housing prices through their ability to create new housing stock and set the price for it.

    There are definitely risks (new players shut out of desirable locations, or perhaps cheap housing becoming harder to find, or perhaps the system would require too much dev intervention). But it seems a relatively simple way to add a whole new layer of gameplay.

    BTW if there are any other discussions of this topic I missed, I apologize - I made it through two pages of search results without finding anything else. I'd love to hear more thoughts on how this system might work, or reasons why it wouldn't, etc.
    Posted 16 months ago by Rock Opera Jr Subscriber! | Permalink