Bidding is a terrible way to handle freeholds

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The exact thing that Steven said won't exist for some reason. Maintenance costs.

It doesn't even have to be exactly maintenance.

If you want to lean hard into the PvX aspect, 'security', 'fuel', 'transportation issues'.

To vastly oversimplify, we either get:
'Some number of people upset that their Freehold Upkeep costs (time or money, preferably time) are too high, who then ask for help'

OR

'Some much smaller number of people with no complaints once they have their Freehold and a much larger number of people who would want to have one even with Upkeep costs, complaining because they can never get one to begin with'.

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Casuals can still farm in nodes. They'll be locked out of master+ lvls of processing and their own spots to chill in.

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There are almost no people like that on these forums who are also vocal.

Please name one vocal person on these forums that is not basically a guild leader or guild officer.

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Of course it does.

Anyways there are no such vocal people and you can't prove it, you just made them up in order to make your point.

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This entire post is actually just a warning against building bad crafting systems.

Is your reasoning that 'casuals don't contribute in games where it is made difficult for them to contribute'?

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As long as your definition of 'vocal' is 'posts on forums occasionally' I suppose you can claim whatever you want actually, so proceed.

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Go all the way with this shit. Split freeholds into 3 types (housing, processing, business).

Houses are literally just a vertical building and can be placed directly next to each other. In other words - the slums for the poors.

Processing stuff is ~1acre and can be placed next to each other as well. In other words - the factories and feeding planes.

And business is the red light district for the richest bastards around. Only in the juiciest places on the map and go for shitton of gold.

Houses can be achieved through hard quests. Processing plots through profession and party quests. Business through bids.