| Author | forced higher rent for higher quality estate lodging |
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Right. The idea is simple.
I suggest that for each full star that an estate has, the minimum rent is increased by an amount comparable to the strength of the bonus.
The reason for this...
On their own, estates cost a mint, and unless you've got a 5 star estate, people are going to be trying to rent somewhere better, because everyone insists on setting the price to the minimum, because well, everyone else does.
The end result of the current situation, is that estates don't bring in anything unless they are maxed out, which makes them a pointless investment, as your not going to be able to upgrade them with their own income.
The point in the idea, is to even the odds and make it profitable to actually buy an estate in the low levels. |
+1
also estates are always ordered by their id.
e.g. if there are four estates and all of them are fully upgraded, the lowest id will ALWAYS be on top.
So it is pointless to build guest lounges / reception for the other estate owners. |
I myself am an owner of an estate. It doesn't have anything built because I do not have enough gold to max it out, and I know that nobody is going to rent a room unless I do. So I definitely do understand your reasoning and I can agree on that it improves the prospect of estates and makes economic sense.
However this benefits people who owns estates, but it is greatly disadvantageous for people who do not and frequently rent rooms. We'll see what the latter group of people have to say. :)
But of course if I have to give a vote, I will cast it on +1. |
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I enjoy having cheap rooms and usually have quite a few rented at any time in different locations. If rents were higher I would probably spend less renting them overall and would just take the longer recover times instead.
I also feel that many people paid far too high a price to buy originally and must have known when buying at these prices they would never make any profit for a long long time. They instead bought for bragging rights or the other benefits.
Estates do offer benefits to the owners with better recover times for themselves and spouses and also many get a lot of benefit from the extra art storage available. I see a few owners run successful art rental schemes which they would find it very hard to do without the use of estates storage. |
If you haven't know, the estates are sorted with priority set to star rating, then rent price, and lastly ID.
Once upon a time, my price was 500 gold a day and all 5 of my guest rooms were fully booked. On the other hand, estates with lower star rating weren't quite as well even with lower rent price. |
| *weren't doing quite as well |
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Supply and demand.
Owners set the prices and renters decide whether to rent or not. As you can see owners haven't been setting at max prices and there are many available rooms.
On their own, estates cost a mint,
That's cause owners didn't buy them just for leasing out to renters. They bought for their own restoration, warehouse space, fame, prestige, have too much gold, etc.
This is why I don't own an estate and I rarely rent a room. I only sometimes rent a room during some of the events. I feel estates and rents are way too high. |
Forgot to finish my story:
And I lived happily ever after. The end. |
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Supply and demand
Also WTP by the customer for the what they get
makes them a pointless investment
Whos fault was that? |
