Highly hypothetical proposal

[Godsend]

This is a highly hypothetical proposal and likely has no chance of being implimented, mostly because it is NEA. I was just curious what players would think.

What if taxation were implimented on existing houses. Something like 1% of the value of the deed for that structure per refresh period. The gold would be put into a tax box placed in the house. Each time the house is refreshed, an amount appropriate to the time elapsed from the last refresh is withdrawn from the box. 1% total house value * (time elapsed / total time from new to IDOC) = amount withdrawn. That way regardless of how many times the house is refreshed, the same amount of money is used per standard time period.

I think this could provide a gold dump sufficient enough to possibly reduce or replace silver for gold as a reward during events. It would also force players serious about keeping a house on the shard to play at least a few hours a month. Those who own vast plots of land might be forced to relinquish some of that land so new players have a hope of one day soon owning their own home or form some sort of support system worthy of having such a large amount of land. Such as forming an active guild or vendor mall. I think that once people got used to it, it would be largely unnoticed and have a significantly positive outcome for the whole shard.

[Eastwood]

I think it is terrible,

I try to avoid most house ownership in UO because I don't like being chained to a computer game, if I have RL stuff come up where I cannot log on for 2 weeks it's bad enough that I have to find a house sitter, but the tax idea sounds like a way that innactive players have to deal with watching their gold piles dwindle because they are taking a break. I don't think that taking a break means they should lose their houses, there's still plenty of room on the shard.

[Mens Rea]

HOW ABOUT YOU PAY MARKET RATE FOR A PLACED LARGE HOUSE AND STOP CRYING ON THE FORUMS?

IT IS A PREFERABLE IDEA TO YOURS.

[BobDobbs]

Market rate for a house on UOSA is a heck of a lot better than the market rate for houses in era. At least you can buy houses here.

[Downs]

cA is willing to oversee the forclosure process.

[Godsend]

I thought I might just mention that I have more houses than I need already. I have also been on a long break, but think I would still be capable of finding a few hours a month to farm enough gold to keep my houses.

In addition, this proposal was more about eliminating silver, inflation, and enticing players to get on for more than refreshing houses than creating open plots of land. All subjects that I have seen significant complaining about in the forums.

[Panthor the Hated]

[Braden]

Its not era accurate and would likely not be well received by the players.

[Boondock_Saint]

Pretty soon we would start hearing the S word.. !!!