I have been getting increasingly annoyed with how many houses are taken and I hardly ever or never see the owners. I understand that people have lives and things come up but some of these properties have been owned by the same people for months and months--some of them I have never seen the owners of them online, ever.
I would like to suggest property rent have another variable thrown in and that is based on play time--of the character owning it.
The idea for this is to encourage players to play the characters that have property and if they don't want to play those characters, then they shouldn't own houses. It really just come down to people hogging property on characters they don't play as often as others.
We have a similar problem with people that hold offices. If one of your characters holds a office chair for a settlement you should be required to play that character with 95% of your play time. Seeing as we have these rules for assassinations. I have noticed that some people win their office chair, do their management things and then log out to play other characters so they can conveniently avoid being assassinated.
But I digress... we need to have something in place to keep properties moving through owners that are putting in the time on the server. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me that some people have multiple login names/game accounts so they can hold multiple properties.
Maybe this is too harsh? I don't know. All I know is there are not enough houses to go around and some people are logging in for less than 10 minutes to refresh ownership and then bouncing, either to play other characters or games or do life things which isn't fair to the people that are playing.
