[imported_Sindern]

I suppose you could just condemn all houses past 6 months. The best part is that the players can't see how long the house has been inactive so unless someone in the staff is telling them how long, there's no problem. It's a good way to get rid of crap houses, but leave the ones that look like people might return to them.

I agree with everything you said here. Unfortunately Sindern we're on the losing side and it seems a full-fledged system will be implemented shortly.

It's really a terrible plan that isn't needed. The things that it's intended to fix will NOT be fixed, and it just creates hassle for players. I think that with a game this old, you should be trying to find the funnest parts of it and drawing those out instead of throwing big "FUs" to the players by making them do extra work or making it harder because we want to be HARDCORE LOL. Making PVP/PVE "hardcore" is fine with me, but if I wanted to be a hardcore accountant, I'd get a job and get paid for it.

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As an afterthought, you could also have the idle time of the house displayed when someone besides the owner dclicks the sign so that you can see if it's past the timer. Then, if it was a static that they wanted to buy or if they wanted to place a house in that spot, a GM could condemn the house.