Hrm..maybe if there was a way the novains "Bound" to the character who originally built them??...
Trying to think of various solutions to "novian farming" and the only thing I can come up with is some type of "character binding" for the buildings or the work or the novians themselves.
But I can't come up with a way of "character binding" that wouldn't then somehow penalize honest players and transactions too. Any character binding of novians or plot resources would also get rid of any tradeing or gifting of novians as well.
And even in that case, the only way to keep people from buying up plot after plot just for Novians woudl mean somehow binding the buildings themselves to the original owner - so that only the original owner who built them/owned the plot WHEN they were activated/completed - could actually decon for novians. But I doubt that's even a possibility.
I.e. Frith owns her lair for two years, and completed 18 chambers in that time (ha yea I wish). She then sells it to Bobbie. Bobbie would be unable to decon those chambers and *receive novians* (he can decon it for nothing) because those chamgbers were not completed in his ownership. Only Frith could decon those 18 chambers and get novians from them. (to keep it easier ont he system, any uncompleted projects could be deconned by anyone, only completed buildings/pieces would be "bound" to a single charater for their novians).
Now if somehow that could be done, and keep the novians from being bound to Frith then you coudl still have trade/sell/gifting. Otherwise, if the decon binds the novians to the charatger- then only that character can ever use them again.
Quite complicated - lol. The simplest solution maybe binding novains to the person who decrafted something. It doesnt' keep people from novian farming - but it does force them to only be able to actually USE the novians themselves and have no other way to profit from them.
So the real question is - do we penalize the entire community - no longer selling or gifting novians to anyone - to keep farming from ever occuring.
Considering this possibly may be only a "real problem" in huge land upheavels that just happend - perhaps its only a problem that really raises its head rarely? And in future "plot reclaims" that are smaller - the farming done is on a much smaller scale?
I don't know, as I've never had novians or tried to get any lol.