Global house payment system - Phoenix Freeshard

Dear devs, please consider adding a global house payment system. Maybe something you can do via a command. Like /payrent alb playerhouse, /payrent alb guildhouse etc for each realm. Hopefully you are keen on this idea cuz its really hard to swap realms just to pay rent when you are focusing on one realm!

Ps. I already know about the consignment merchant thing this is just a cool idea for a command to make it simpler and not require using a merchant.

Thu 25 Jul 2019 11:54 PM by

gruenesschaf

Some technical issues prevent this at the moment. A potential solution would be to do away with individual money per character and have a single shared money value per account per realm, this could potentially open up more offline payments like facilitating safe money trades between realms as well (ie my hib money for your mid money, the realm economies are still supposed to be completely separate with every single copper used in hibernia being earned by a hibernia character).

Some details for what is preventing it: updates to the table that stores frequently updating character data (xp, rp, played since and, relevant for this case, also the money) also stores the last active time for a character as those are, aside from offline payment features like this, always used together and since we are doing batch updates, and again aside from offline updates like this, there is no need to ever provide anything but "now" for the last active time. And guess what is used for the realm timer :p

Sun 28 Jul 2019 9:30 AM by Kaseylol

gruenesschaf wrote: ↑
Thu 25 Jul 2019 11:54 PM
Some technical issues prevent this at the moment. A potential solution would be to do away with individual money per character and have a single shared money value per account per realm, this could potentially open up more offline payments like facilitating safe money trades between realms as well (ie my hib money for your mid money, the realm economies are still supposed to be completely separate with every single copper used in hibernia being earned by a hibernia character).

Some details for what is preventing it: updates to the table that stores frequently updating character data (xp, rp, played since and, relevant for this case, also the money) also stores the last active time for a character as those are, aside from offline payment features like this, always used together and since we are doing batch updates, and again aside from offline updates like this, there is no need to ever provide anything but "now" for the last active time. And guess what is used for the realm timer :p

What about an auto draw of gold of the house owner or guildmaster to pay rent?

Sort of like having the limit to prepay rent be infinite but requires no thought. If the house owner runs out of gold then so be it.

Mon 29 Jul 2019 1:20 PM by chryso

At one time I was also thinking about this as a problem. Then I thought that if I can't log on one time in a month to another realm to pay rent then maybe I really don't need a house in that realm anyway.