Expiration time on houses

[Russell]

Hi all -

There are 1,241 house locations on Las Venturas Playground. Of those, 1,125 are occupied, which is roughly 91%. The rest is available for purchase. Looking at the occupied houses, only 28% of owners has been in-game in the past year. That's a really small proportion. It grows to 45% and 63% when extending that period to respectively two and three years.

This makes me feel that houses are a bit of a graveyard on Las Venturas Playground, which I don't support. As such, I'd like to propose that we start expiring houses. This would happen automatically, with no interference necessary from administrators.

House expiration would follow what gang zones do, and would thus expire when:

• The owner has >500 hours of in-game time, and hasn't been online for 2 years,
  
• The owner has >200 hours of in-game time, and hasn't been online for 1 year,
  
• The owner hasn't been online for 6 months.
  

Players with more than 1,000 hours of in-game time will always keep their house. We should consider extending the expiration time for VIPs to two years as well.

This would immediately free up 69% of houses created on the server, because their owners do not match the above criteria. For active players, this means that many great house locations will become available again.

What do you think?

Thanks,
Russell