UO Second Age

fooka03 wrote:I have a feeling that more houses will be used once you lose the ability to be "owner" of a single house with every character a person has.

I use 4 houses regularly now (main, vendor, drop, and mule). If I can no longer securely access them (key and barrier) to drop loot you can be damned sure I'll be using more houses, not less. People with 15 houses might actually use a couple more of their empties, but I think the net effect would be more houses being placed, not less.

MatronDeWinter wrote:I swear the majority of house owners on UOSA are newbies lol.

As it should be.

I think Patch 133 will reduce the number of houses that just sit empty.

You cannot co-own a player to a house if they own a house.

Rammar wrote:I use 4 houses regularly now (main, vendor, drop, and mule). If I can no longer securely access them (key and barrier) to drop loot you can be damned sure I'll be using more houses, not less. People with 15 houses might actually use a couple more of their empties, but I think the net effect would be more houses being placed, not less.

I'm not worried about people placing more houses, the whole point of this thread is for the existing empty structures to get used more. If eliminating the co-owners does not improve empty house usage then the discussion needs to shift to reducing the amount of housing per account.

yossarian wrote:I think Patch 133 will reduce the number of houses that just sit empty.

It'll help some, but as Matron pointed out earlier, most of the empty house owners are "noobs" (i.e. 50-50 chars) and wouldn't be co-owned anyway. With a little bit of legwork and house transfers the co-owner system can still be "abused" as it currently is and most of these houses will remain empty.