So these private neighborhoods are essentially FF’s auto demolish, but player controlled?

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  • Players control who can live in them. For guilds, this is via the Guild roster. If a guild removes someone, the player will also be removed from the Neighborhood. Charters have manual control over who can live there via a special UI.

So the person in charge of the charter or GM of a guild could just kick ppl any time they want and the house gets demolished? That feels like too much power for one person. What if the GM gets hacked? Or what if a bug happens, that we all know will likely happen, that causes people to get kicked from the neighborhood? It wasn’t long ago guilds were having problems with their banks being deleted and Blizz did nothing about it

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You can join a public neighborhood if you don’t want a private one, and you can just remake your house from the old one in a new neighborhood.

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Read the entire Blizzard article. The game saves a snapshot of your setup, like the game Trove, if you ever played that, and when you move to another housing plot it will be exactly the same. The plots are all 1 universal size and shape. If your concern is the actual gold price of the plot, I doubt it will be that much, or there might be some kind of refund system for people who are forcibly removed from where they are.

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That’s all well and good, but that doesn’t solve the problems that could occur with unhinged GMs, hackers, or egotistical charter leaders. The solution for having a system that can be abused shouldn’t be “just go to a public neighborhood”

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You just know these forums are going to be filled with drama over getting evicted ftom guild neighborhoods.

The drama flow is strong with private housing. It will be glorious to read.

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Oh no, I got kicked out of my guild by a hacker, this very common problem. Now I just have to wait maybe a week till my guild recovers and my pre-saved house set up can be restored.

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then join a neighborhood with friends. or guildmates.

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Getting removed from a guild hood is just a more tangible effect of getting kicked from a guild, which can happen at any time already. I don’t see what the issue is.

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What is this Housing+ lol?

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or continue living with randoms and complaining that they’re not treating you with the respect you deserve, i guess. :person_shrugging:

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Maybe dont join a guild with an unhinged guild leader.

I am really not sure what the complaint is. You want to be in the guild neighborhood of a guild you are not in?

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nobody has this problem. not once in 20 years.

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i think they want to join a neighborhood and enjoy the benefits of it without anybody being able to boot them for antisocial behavior

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Stares at the guild leader character thats mine

gulps

Well… this is gonna be a fun ride ain’t it.

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Dont worry. Mine is unhinged too

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No. It gets packed up and you unpack it in a new neighborhood just like it was.

It helps to read further.

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I mean, if your GM gets hacked then you can just wait a few days for them to get their account recovered. The other two points, an unhinged gm or charter leader, are entirely solved by not choosing to play with unhinged egomaniacs.

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Giving too much power to players when we all know that is a bad thing

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But the guild leader already has the power to kick you.

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Then don’t join private groups if you don’t like them being able to manage their membership? The game lets you not do that, you’re going out of your way to opt into that system.

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