I found something else that needs to be "fixed"... or the user banned.
The little custom stone and villa mixed house belongs to my uncle, who has played for 20 years and more.
He was lucky to place a classic villa on this spot just as Tram opened, that horrible lag/crash filled-day... and he was very proud of it. When all the custom houses stuff came, we took a little more land for a custom house... MORE storage, after YEARS of working out of a small house. (If you can call a villa small when even a Small Marble Shop was impossible to find (when I came along). Still, he keep film on this custom keep and I think mainly because its right on the water, across from Cove.
A castle sat in front as long as I knew. To my shock, that same castle fell a couple short weeks ago and was camped by someplace between 30 and 50 people. It was obnoxious. BUT, you can only expect such things. If a castle was going to fall back before the grate house lock-up of 2001... 200 people would have shown up to camp it. 30 people would show up to an IDOC Small Marble Shop! Trust me. I witnessed this several times before giving up on it as a bad job. So the castle fell. It was replaced by 6 or 7 new houses, all holding the space hostage for 200m each. Again, nothing new with that.
So, this is our wonderful new neighbor! Paid out, got rid of all the space hogging houses... had to go with a class castle because of a tree standing in the courtyard. "Good for them!", I said. It took a few months. Nothing good happens quickly, unless you have daddy's credit card. For the rest of us... hard work, in game, works. However... looking at the grand new eye-sour? I'd say someone had way too much money to burn.
You... me... anyone, passing by. This is what we have as a front yard now.
I am standing on the first step of the house in this screen grab. A few seconds after recalling in... this is what you see. Isnt it wonderful?!!!