Squenix, its time to do something MEANINGFUL about housing.

It's about time a good hard look was taken at housing. Its very clear that more wards were needed, however, they've compounded the problem more than actually moving to solve it.

Six new wards were released per zone. Except it was only five, since one of them was made FC only, and everything else was Mixed.

Ward 25 being FC locked only serves to drive more people out of the market.
The other five wards being open to FCs has only led to more empty FC ward plots because those FCs have relocated to the new wards.

and about relocation...

Allowing ANY relocations to these new wards was a HUGE mistake. People who have been striving and grinding for YEARS had their chances dashed by an FC coming in and dropping 20-30 bids on a plot on the last night of the cycle.

We've seen that you can add more wards to the existing locations. Add more. Make them private only. Disable relocations to them. The majority of people who want a house STILL don't have one due to these abject mistakes with the rollout of the new wards. At this point the available housing has dried up, at most we will see 1-4 houses up in a buying period. Do something that is going to MATTER to your playerbase.

FC only wards will open up to everyone else eventually.
FC's should get a chance at first dibs because FC's have exclusive content via the workshop locked behind having a house, as well as FC private rooms.
Imagine having an FC without a house, what a pointless thing.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

FC only wards will open up to everyone else eventually.
FC's should get a chance at first dibs because FC's have exclusive content via the workshop locked behind having a house, as well as FC private rooms.
Imagine having an FC without a house, what a pointless thing.

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Shell FCs aka submarine farmers say “hello, thanks for the extra wards and exclusivity.”


As if they needed more plots to steal for their selfish bs

You should've seen the Empyreum launch. That would have made your head explode.

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Originally Posted by True-to-Caesar

Shell FCs aka submarine farmers say “hello, thanks for the extra wards and exclusivity.”


As if they needed more plots to steal for their selfish bs

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People exploiting the system doesn't invalidate the need for it.

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

People exploiting the system doesn't invalidate the need for it.

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There are much less FCs than single players wanting to own houses.

Outside of shell FCs with individuals owning entire wards, the actual FCs don’t properly fill up FC only wards (and you’ll have to not count the shell FCs with a single player going that way to get a house more easily).

If anything we do need more private wards, you could add a few for FCs, but what would really be refreshing would be wards with only mediums ot larges. Or smalls that you can upgrade to larges.

They should detach it from housing so FCs without a house can still work on it.

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Originally Posted by True-to-Caesar

There are much less FCs than single players wanting to own houses.

Outside of shell FCs with individuals owning entire wards, the actual FCs don’t properly fill up FC only wards (and you’ll have to not count the shell FCs with a single player going that way to get a house more easily).

If anything we do need more private wards, you could add a few for FCs, but what would really be refreshing would be wards with only mediums ot larges. Or smalls that you can upgrade to larges.

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You're correct we need more private plots than FC plots, but FC's still need the chance to get in there first and the last round gave us the minimum number of FC only wards, being one.

Remember, housing used to be FC ONLY, while individuals players only got apartments and FC rooms. Plus wards are usually much more lively when it's FC's inhabiting it.
You see an FC house and there's typically FC members in and around it. You see a private house... and it's empty, because the player is either never online, or doing content somewhere else, or hanging out at their FC house!

Unfortunately, uncoupling workshops of FC houses is probably not an option at this point. If you notice, when an FC moves, it has re rebuild the workshop and all the workshop history is erased. So moving FC workshops somewhere else would likely force FC's to wipe their workshop history, their exploratory progress, etc.


It wouldn't be a simple thing to give us wards with more Mediums and Larges. A district would need to be designed that way from the start. And then you come into fairness in pricing out people from certain districts. Why don't those who want a Small get to live in Thavnair? Why do you have to have 40mil for a Mansion if you want to live in Sharlayan?
The most I can see them doing is building the next district with one extra Large (4 up from 3) and maybe two extra Mediums (9 from 7), which would drop Smalls from 20 to 17.