Some loose thoughts on housing policy. If this is Yoshi-P's motivation, let's lean into that.
Houses degrade if not used. This is good, b/c it (somewhat) discourages speculators. But it's bad because it leads to loss aversion (I'll lose my house!) which leads to holding.
Houses degrade if not used. This is good, b/c it (somewhat) discourages speculators. But it's bad because it leads to loss aversion (I'll lose my house!) which leads to holding.
https://twitter.com/TheChowderhead/status/1431044612358131712
What might be a better way is to maybe put unused houses into "cold storage". Technical/server details here matter a LOT. But if some improvement is gatekeeping access to a scarce resource, one useful reform could be, "Your house is not GONE, it's just sleeping."
"Since you weren't using it we freed up the land for someone else. And when you want to log back in you can put it down anywhere that's free" (This further assumes both a land use policy like land tax or other that ends the shortage as well)
To solve technical problem of degraded houses not being deleted but put in storage, you could do these:
1) REALLY delete after X time that's fairly longish (6 months or whatever, with plenty of warning)
2) Move storage off your main server to cheap reliable long term stuff.
1) REALLY delete after X time that's fairly longish (6 months or whatever, with plenty of warning)
2) Move storage off your main server to cheap reliable long term stuff.
I'm no network expert so maybe there's Very Good Reasons this won't work, in which case I'd love to hear about all those.
But I really love Yoshi-P's underlying philosophy of "it's okay to log off and do something else" and think every aspect of the game should lean into that.
But I really love Yoshi-P's underlying philosophy of "it's okay to log off and do something else" and think every aspect of the game should lean into that.
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