It's time to add more wards to housing

It is time to add more wards to housing. Without even adding an entire new housing district, if they just doubled the amount of wards in game, it would make a huge difference. I understand that testing, and time is needed to add such a large amount. I can deal with that. A new district would be a welcome additional space addition, but they could develop that later, and just focus on making more space with what they already have.

They should make it a priority to add new waves of housing space each patch if they are going to keep relying on this aging system. I'm not saying no to instanced housing, this is not an argument for instanced housing, so please keep that out of this thread. This is a suggestion to improve the systems we already have. They should be adding wards every single major patch cycle, and the fact that it has been so long since they have done that is sloppy, and a bit of an insult to the player base that has been complaining about housing for so long.

I understand that they are upgrading the graphics, and probably really short on managing space as it is with the upcoming expansion, but it would be really cool if Dawntrail added more housing space with every patch, or perhaps during the off season between expansions as a kind gesture to get the player base ready. There's no excuse other than the space on the data centers being the limiting factor. They should still be working on it, and getting it done though. This is arguably one of the most complained about things in the fandom.

Each ward holds a lot of server space, they can’t just add them Willy Nilly every patch and expect to still have enough server space to do anything, there has to be a limit

This is to say nothing of with the exceptions of a few worlds on aether and behemoth most servers have plenty of free plots right now because so many people are giving up their house to take long breaks

Honestly this is probably the worst time in recent memory to add more housing

They already did that previously. They added the concept of subdivisions, which are clones of all the wards. Then they added new housing areas over time as well, such as Empyreum and Shirogane.

The problem was that within the first few minutes of release, all of them were taken, because the demand was that high that it still wasn't even close to enough. Back then, we didn't have the lottery system though.

You're playing on Balmung, the world with the highest population in the game, and complaining that there's not many houses.

Dynamis is wide open, you can get a house in a single round.

Dynamis has loads of undesirable small houses up, and cycles mediums and larges pretty regularly. (you wont win those though since they usually all get over 10 bids)

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Originally Posted by Oizen

Dynamis has loads of undesirable small houses up, and cycles mediums and larges pretty regularly. (you wont win those though since they usually all get over 10 bids)

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What a great mindset lmao

10 bids or over = instant loss

that's a way to never get a house that's for sure

A few months ago I won a personal house out of 68 bids, if I had the same mindset as you did, I would have given up in advance

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

What a great mindset lmao

10 bids or over = instant loss

that's a way to never get a house that's for sure

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10% Chance on that. And thats ususally the minim I've noticed on Marilith.
Last Large I bid on had 40 bids, and thats a 2.5% chance.

I already have a house and more gil than I could ever know what to do with so I just throw it at any large that comes up, I'm not going to kid myself into thinking these odds will ever lead to anything.

But yeah if undesirable smalls in ishgard are your thing dynamis is your server.

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Originally Posted by Oizen

10% Chance on that. And thats ususally the minim I've noticed on Marilith.
Last Large I bid on had 40 bids, and thats a 2.5% chance.

I already have a house and more gil than I could ever know what to do with so I just throw it at any large that comes up, I'm not going to kid myself into thinking these odds will ever lead to anything.

But yeah if undesirable smalls in ishgard are your thing dynamis is your server.

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If you say so lmao, I know many people who have gotten mediums on dyna, some in 1 or 2 rounds, and shiro mediums or at the very least mist.

Your thinking and negativity is how people dont get houses because they dont even try.

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

If you say so lmao, I know many people who have gotten mediums on dyna, some in 1 or 2 rounds, and shiro mediums or at the very least mist.

Your thinking and negativity is how people dont get houses because they dont even try.

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10% just isn't something you should count on? Not that much of a stretch

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Originally Posted by BRVV

10% just isn't something you should count on? Not that much of a stretch

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Then why even bid if you're going to have that mindset ?