I have never recruited for Siege to attract more players to steal from...no matter what people may think...la
I'm sure many can confirm this. And, I'd add, finding players to steal from is not a problem on Siege.
@Lady Michelle Everybody has to bank, pickup/turn in BODs, shop player run vendors, train skills or farm dungeons, empty ship's holds out at public docks. There are plenty of people to steal from on Siege. So, I promise you, Rico has no self serving motives in this thread.
As this thread evolved I've realized that the whole "housing experiment" on Siege, for better or for worse, is probably something that is going to have to stay in place. Personally, I would have attacked it at a different angle and made it a limited time offer kind of deal sort of like RtB and then shut it off until a later date when it was deemed advantageous for the server to reinstate it. However that is the past, and I am and never have been on the Mystic payroll so my opinions are null.
With that said. I did some intense house placement shopping last night. I love the current location of my home. But I want a bigger plot. I tried to look in areas relatively close to moongates for my magery-challenged character. No more than 4 screens away. I found a couple spots near the Yew gate. Nothing bigger than an 8x14. Obviously nothing near Jhelom or Skara Brae. Three spots no bigger than a small classic house or 7x7 custom in Moonglow. And so on..
Now, there is plenty of housing available on Siege. I will not dispute that. If one doesn't mind Homare or Malas one could place large homes until the cows come home. And of course, there are more than enough small housing spots around Fel and larger housing in more desolate spots in Fel. So, people are correct when they say that there is plenty of housing on Siege. And, there seems to be enough support behind allowing any second homes, abandoned or not, to remain standing that playing with the setup as it is now is probably fruitless.
Lets talk castles and keeps! Mow 'em down and build something creative you Lemmings! A lone castle sitting out in the wild near a shrine is nostalgic. 24 keeps surrounding the only road from Vesper to Britain sucking up bandwidth while they slowly render creating a Dark Wisp Death Trap is just Urban Sprawl.
