Solution to housing crisis

I have a solution to the housing crisis .... Lower the requirement for making a FC to one so that anyone can make a FC immediately, after the requirements are met they can bid on the small FC houses and fill them up. You're thoughts?

Or you know, SE can just relax FC only restriction after a couple of cycles like they were going to do anyway.

It amazes me how they try to force FC housing so hard, just open all the plots for private housing and only a few wards for FC housing. It would solve so many issues.

The issue is existence of personal housing and lack of taxes. If all the plots were FC only and had large upkeep costs the plots would rotate through the player base. Housing being permanent as long as the sub is active is the main issue.

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Originally Posted by sagacious

I have a solution to the housing crisis .... Lower the requirement for making a FC to one so that anyone can make a FC immediately, after the requirements are met they can bid on the small FC houses and fill them up. You're thoughts?

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This already happens. People got around the timer by joining a fake FC, purchasing the house, with the seller then leaving the FC.

The main culprits are a: not enough housing overall and b: not enough non-FC housing at the moment, though that's expected to increase after another round or two once FCs have bought theirs.

Easy fix, improve apartments, can upgrade sizes, housing walls change interior, allow outdoor furniture for indoor use. Remove all personal housing from wards, and make exclusively FC only, slap some kind of weekly or monthly rent on houses, could gil or maybe just fc points, bigger the house the more rent required.

Rotating ownership?? Seriously?? I'm glad you guys are not un charge holy hell, what an atrocious system.

Also... taxes? You know people will RMT the hell out of it, just to keep their house.

Again, I'll implement my idea here is that the only solution to the housing crisis is real life ID to ensure one person-ownership :P Anyone who doesn't provide ID gets their force forfeited, too.

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Originally Posted by Juun

It amazes me how they try to force FC housing so hard, just open all the plots for private housing and only a few wards for FC housing. It would solve so many issues.

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And bring more issues because workshops and content associated with that will become even more scarce.

Taxes would be pretty good gil sink and motivator for players to share FC houses. When you have to pay a large monthly gil fee you might reconsider owning a house.