Housing

The problem is that they decided for only 3 L plots per ward while it should have been more per ward.
They are simply not enough.
They should design bigger wards with more M and L plots but this may be another "server/coding whatever limitation".
If Ishgard housing will indeed come at the end of Ishgard restoration there may be still hope for those who would like a M or L plot.

The last time they added new houses, mediums were available for weeks so the only thing that is good enough for you are the mansions.

I have a Small & am saving for a Medium, that way I don't pay full price when the time comes. There's alot you can actually do if you have the imagination with a Small plot

You could also check Reddit for people selling houses for Gil, but buyer beware

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Originally Posted by RyuSaarva

The last time they added new houses, mediums were available for weeks so the only thing that is good enough for you are the mansions.

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The last time they added houses they were FC only, and only unlocked them for individual purposes after some time had passed. I'm sure there were plenty of houses snatched up right after the new wards were unlocked. Before they were unlocked I'm sure the mansions were the first thing to go after the servers went live. They always are.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

The last time they added houses they were FC only, and only unlocked them for individual purposes after some time had passed. I'm sure there were plenty of houses snatched up right after the new wards were unlocked. Before they were unlocked I'm sure the mansions were the first thing to go after the servers went live. They always are.

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Also available to relocate too, so even on my server there were basically all gone within 10 minutes of server opening, mostly from private and not fc houses.

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Originally Posted by LalaRu

Basically, you have access to housing but you complain you cannot get the fancy ones.

What about start with your small house and check every now and then for fancy ones? At least, you are enjoying housing and you are more lucky than people living in crowded servers, whose cannot think about even a small house.

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Completely wortheless reply

I said in my own thread that I dont know what the best solution would be... but perhaps instead of stating the blatantly obvious of why it cannot be done, you all (addressing the critics) could actually try to brain storm on how it COULD be done.

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Originally Posted by Cirque-it

I said in my own thread that I dont know what the best solution would be... but perhaps instead of stating the blatantly obvious of why it cannot be done, you all (addressing the critics) could actually try to brain storm on how it COULD be done.

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The problem is what already exists. If they could start from scratch, they could do a lot of things.

Now, mostly, they only can create (add) full instancied housing with a centrale aetheryte or change apartments to make available gardening and bigger housing as duplex or so.

If instancied gardens bother them, we could imagine instanced housing with some kind of greenhouse.

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Originally Posted by Cirque-it

I said in my own thread that I dont know what the best solution would be... but perhaps instead of stating the blatantly obvious of why it cannot be done, you all (addressing the critics) could actually try to brain storm on how it COULD be done.

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The only way to do what you suggested is to scrap the current wards and rebuild the ward system completely. SE is not going to do that when it means displacing every single current house owner.

Instanced house plots would solve the problem as you could layer house upon house in the same plot location so players could buy whatever size they wanted provided they met the other requirements. SE hasn't seemed interested in adding an instanced house plot system, though.

Your best bet is to buy a small house now if you don't already own a house then keep an eye out for a large to become available so you can immediately relocate to it. It does happen, even if it's infrequent.

Ishgard Restoration is almost definitely building a new housing district, which would add another 126 large and 294 mediums to each world. As long as you own at least a small before it opens, you'd have a good chance of snagging a large via relocation once plots are made available.

In a nutshell. SE made the decision a while back to make mansions mostly only available to FCs. So discussing how to get more mansions out there will do very little for individuals chasing mansions. The solution is either that you'll need to wait a very long time and be very lucky to gain access to one or you'll have to change their stance on it. Both are highly unlikely. S and M are fine and not as hard to obtain.

Also, instanced housing is contrary to the entire concept of housing in ff14, people like to talk about it a lot but it's totally moot because not happening. Housing in ff14 is designed around leaving out about 2/3 of the player base. It's meant that way and I've yet to see any indication that it doesn't work great. The difficulty is just right for it to be a real struggle whiler still having players be giddy AF when they get their house. The placard spamming as a shame of a mechanic and needs to be changed but the rest of the system is a great example of a balancing act in game design. And even though the placard spamming is a senseless mechanic it does have the advantage of leveling the playing field a bit. Giving a chance to those who have actual lives and can't sit around in-game for weeks at a time, while at the same time giving those with plenty of time a higher chance of getting a house.