Petition for more wards / instanced housing

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Originally Posted by Pinworms

NOT SIGNED - more wards and instanced housing would spread the houses way thinner then they already are. I want people to come visit, find my house, or randomly stop by...adding more wards and instances would make it less likely I have a visitor.

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So only you are allowed to have housing, gotcha!
As is wards are dead zones with only 3 -4 actual active houses. A lot of the plots are owned by people who dont log in weeks at a time and just enter it once. THAT is the reason why your neighborhood is dead.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Petitions will not get you anywhere. They're well aware there's an issue. It's been brought up in interviews and it's been brought up by them in one of the recent live letters. The only sway we truly have over them is our money.

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Again if it's an issue why hasn't it been fixed? Timers are what is killing the ability to buy and literally killing players with sleep deprivation. If I was in charge timers would have been gone as soon as I hear any player needed to camp up for 2 days for something when the fix would be to put the damn timer on the placard.

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Originally Posted by saxman09

Again if it's an issue why hasn't it been fixed? Timers are what is killing the ability to buy and literally killing players with sleep deprivation. If I was in charge timers would have been gone as soon as I hear any player needed to camp up for 2 days for something when the fix would be to put the damn timer on the placard.

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Because they need time to develop new systems for housing that will take care of the issues that players have been discussing, perhaps? They can't just add things on a whim. They have to take into account effects on the existing game and increased server loads.

The game isn't killing anyone with sleep deprivation. Stop being overly dramatic. It doesn't help the situation.

They hinted at the NA FanFest that some new housing is coming this expansion and it's tied to the Ishgard Reconstruction. Considering that's going to come with 5.1, we can hope that housing will be one of the topics in their 5.1 live letter.

We know they've been working on a way to have what's happening in common areas be visible from instanced areas. YoshiP went into a lot of detail about the process during the EU FanFest Q&A when he answered the question about why mansion balcony doors don't work.

At the end of one of their streams in June they acknowledged player concerns with housing availability and said they were going to be internally discussing what to do about it after Shadowbringers had launched.

Players have noted how much bigger the Crystarium "inn rooms" are and that they reflect weather and time of day in the skybox.

Put these things together and there's hope they've been trying to develop an instanced system that will let every player have a house, or at least a much larger apartment, while keeping the feeling of the ward neighborhoods and the ability to garden. Or maybe they're just going to add Ishgard wards and hope that takes care of things for a while.

Like other game developers, they've learned not to say too much to players because too many have a tendency to take "we hope to" statements as "set in stone promise".

I'll go with instanced housing, in the form of improved apartments, that can be readilly purchased by players, with wide customizable apartment space having an outdoor instanced balcony (kinda like the one in eulmore upperdeck)which follows in game time and weather, and allows large scale gardening. The apartment courtyard will be massive with all sorts of npc merchants, mb, and summoning bell. (Kinda like the wide crystarium open space going to the crystal exarch's occular).

The housing districts and ward system can still be continued as somewhat a rare resource for those who want to compete for a plot. Hopefully housing districts will also have some improvements to its neighborhood aesthetics.

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Originally Posted by saxman09

literally killing players with sleep deprivation

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Erm… Source? I have yet to hear of any players "literally" dying due to sleep deprivation... Sensationalize much?

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

The game isn't killing anyone with sleep deprivation. Stop being overly dramatic. It doesn't help the situation.

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Thank you. I agree completely.

Name those MMOs that spend a lot of resources on housing. Wait, they all got shut down after 1 or 2 years

ESO is still alive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Originally Posted by SoleilAlphi

ESO is still alive ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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"MMOs that spend a lot of resources on housing". ESO isn't one of those, silly!

ESO's housing is really good with minimal effort, Squeenix could take some ideas from it

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Originally Posted by SoleilAlphi

ESO's housing is really good with minimal effort, Squeenix could take some ideas from it

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Wild Star's housing was primo. Too bad their elite raiding chased away all the casual players because the quests for the most part were fun. SE may chase casuals away due to catering to elite streamers rather than satisfying the majority by tending to hunts, housing, etc.