Playing the blame game is not going to help anyone. How about we do something constructive and help those affected find new spots to their liking and help them move?
It's funny, earlier in the thread someone mentioned a possible reason for having a house there was to grief people.
I have never pvp'd, I also have never been killed by another player. I spend most of my time on ships doing the pirate quest and hunting merchant ships in fel.
Why fel? Because no one bothers you there. No boat parking lots to mess up your tracking (if there are you can scuttle them and they don't park there no more)
I chose Occlo because it was a quiet island to train my characters, good access to the water and a straight shot to the floating dock.
Also very close to serpent pillar for boat mining in T2A. (I spend alot of time there too, mining on a boat.)
this past year I have seen one treasure hunter on the South end of Occlo and one lumberjack about 4 months ago.
Even with the arena going live, there have only been a few duels held at the Occlo arena. Last night there were some reds that came to fight. They left after one got killed by the guards.
As I said earlier, I messaged Mesanna last week because I noticed the changes to the house. I was looking for a backup plan over the weekend.
What irks me most of all is that I know that many houses, over the years, have interfered with changes in the geography of the landscape and they have been accommodated somehow. Grandfathered, whatever.
Houses in the guard zone or adjacent to town buildings or both in Moonglow, Britain, Serpent's Hold, Occlo, Vesper, Minoc, and Jhelom, all have funky placed houses that could not be placed today because of changes made over time.
I see this as no different.
It was the way I was informed, particularly after I tried to initiate a discussion about it with one Dev I knew had handled issues similar to this in the recent past.
My efforts were not only ignored, but the announcement itself was poorly written and came off as a little rude, if not abrupt. Further, this is happening over the holiday. A particularly bad holiday if I felt compelled to phone EA to discuss this with someone.
I followed the rules when I placed the house.
There is ample space around that arena to place the stone a few tiles over from where it currently is.
I even saved a backup house design yesterday making a special hallway in the house to make it easier for folks to get to the stone, making my house public, if I ended up keeping it.
As it is, the arena on Great lakes is working. there were a couple of duels there last night. six or maybe eight people show up on the statistics now.
