Thread: DELETE the owner of a house dormant over a year....

This is getting to be pretty ridiculous finding a neighborhood with friends. One person i know has been gone almost a year and a half and won't be coming back and his house is STILL there.. was purpose does that serve other than clogging up neighborhoods and not allowing people to have new locations (if they want) or move into a neighborhood near friends? I'm assuming others have ran in to this problem as well.

I honestly don't know why after say a year (which is PLENTY of time) the house is put back onto the market for sale and other people can buy it. There's more reasons to have owners deleted than i posted but that's pretty much the main things. Maybe something to consider in the future please Turbine?

/signed I mean really... it seems like turbine came up with a good system... now enforce the damn thing...

If a person does not pay there upkeep then they lose the house plain and simple... I mean even at L6 you can earn your upkeep in no time... login for an hour once every 6 weeks and pay it... you can go f2p so there are no monthly account charges...

but I am sure that the reason for all these ghost towns is that people no longer play at all... I want to move, but there are just no houses...

Agree, if evicting homes would cause too many problems move them into uninhabited neighbourhoods.

Nope. Instead, Turbine can open up more neighborhoods, or find an alternate solution that doesn't require people to give up their houses. Its been policy for so long and would generate much ill will to have it changed now.

It used to work as you suggest and was changed due to player complaints.

IIRC it was changed to accommodate players serving in the armed forces, who wouldn't be able to play for one or more tours of duty.