Phase 3

[Steel DarKnight]

Oct 13 2003 5:46PM

Housing’s Phase 3 brings the possibility for houses owned by inactive accounts to become condemned and decay. The Phase 3 audit, when the housing system first begins checking which houses are owned by inactive accounts, will begin the morning of Wednesday, October 15 CT.

Houses on account that are reactivated before the billing upgrade and Phase 3 audits begin will not be condemned. Reactivating an account after the audit begins will not keep a house from becoming condemned. Houses on inactive accounts will not begin decaying right away, but they will begin entering a normal “Condemned” state and decay within 5 days. (Note: If the condemned timer runs out but contacted vendors still exist on that house, the house will change to “Demolition Pending.” Houses in these “post decay” phase cannot be traded or removed, and will disappear once all the vendors have expired.)

During this audit period, players will not be able to place or trade houses. Players should be able to make housing transactions again when the audit is complete.

Auto-refresh is not being turned off at this time. We will post an announcement stating when automatic refreshing of all houses will be turned off.

For more information about Housing Phase 3 and these audits, please read Housing Phase 3 in the Update Center and our Housing/Phase 3 Q&A Team Comment by Keith “Sannio” Quinn.