One new ward per area was really not enough >_<..!

I am the first to log in in my free company since the patch, and took the gil from the chest to see if I could reserve us a house at last, but only to find out all the small plots in the new wards were already taken...!

We are a very small FC, so we don't have money to get anything more than a small house. I honestly didn't expect people would buy the plots this early without waiting for the price to drop a little first, but I guess others just make fast money than we do.

Now the real question is, when will more wards be added?

EDIT: As a side note, since I know a lot of people made 1-person FCs to get their own small house... Is there anyone on Balmung who would be considering selling their small house and get instead a private room in someone else's FC? It's a shot in the dark, but I guess it's worth asking.

I wouldn't expect more wards, till maybe 2.35.. or 2.4.

I assume there is always Uldah, on Midgar every ward is full nearly except Uldah housing is like EMPTY haha.

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Originally Posted by Tempting

I assume there is always Uldah, on Midgar every ward is full nearly except Uldah housing is like EMPTY haha.

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Yes, I tried to suggest that but we voted and it seems everyone prefers to wait for another shot at the Mist, haha. I won't spend everyone's money on something we don't want. ^^;

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

Yes, I tried to suggest that but we voted and it seems everyone prefers to wait for another shot at the Mist, haha. I won't spend everyone's money on something we don't want. ^^;

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I still think Uldah is better than Gridania, but yea Mist is the best. Glad I grabbed a house in the 5th plot before they got all bought out!

They're supposedly working on improving Ul'Dah's environment, I think. I think it's the ugliest too. Lavender Beds is where it's at.

Honestly, I think that's why Square didn't add more wards, there's Ul'dah/ignored districts that are waiting to be filled. Probably also why the new wards started at their max value and will be going down in value on a monthly schedule, to make people go, "Hmm... can't afford the lots for a while, where else is open again?" And even that, there's still lots open in the secondary districts. Just not the medium/large lots. With recent changes it's not so bad to grab a small lot.

Keep saving. The mediums at their lowest price aren't much more than the smalls at full. They'll be at minimum at the end of the month. It's unfortunate that there are so many selfish people solo buying GUILD housing.

And people complained about prices. Lol. Guess they should have been higher.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Keep saving. The mediums at their lowest price aren't much more than the smalls at full. They'll be at minimum at the end of the month. It's unfortunate that there are so many selfish people solo buying GUILD housing.

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Isn't medium at lowest still over 2x the price of small at highest?

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Keep saving. The mediums at their lowest price aren't much more than the smalls at full. They'll be at minimum at the end of the month. It's unfortunate that there are so many selfish people solo buying GUILD housing.

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It's unfortunate that there aren't better options for those people who want to utilize the benefits of housing. When (if) player housing comes and is implemented properly (lol) we will see lots less of that sort of thing. If SE is smart they will give those players an option to trade-in their current "group" house for their personal house in whatever other place it ends up being.

But yea, whole thing from beginning to end just wasn't even remotely thought out.

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Originally Posted by Alukah

Isn't medium at lowest still over 2x the price of small at highest?

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On Balmung they will still be 15 million gil at their lowest.

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Originally Posted by ThinkPInk

On Balmung they will still be 15 million gil at their lowest.

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Yeah, and we're really a small group (3 friends, with a 4th logging in rarely because of his job), we started saving when housing first came out, and up to this day our efforts rewarded us with slightly over 5M, so you can see it'd be hard for us to manage medium or large houses. We can't do endgame/sell runs, so I don't really know how to make money faster than that. I could try, but I am afraid I'll end up spending my whole days farming/crafting soullessly without enjoying the game only to end up finding myself with no medium houses left to buy >_<...

That and, I don't know, even IF we were able to afford a medium house, would it be fair for a 3/4 people group to have one? Wouldn't it be more proper to let a larger group have it? The idea if stealing space to more worthy groups makes me feel bad.

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Yeah, and we're really a small group (3 friends, with a 4th logging in rarely because of his job), we started saving when housing first came out, and up to this day our efforts rewarded us with slightly over 5M, so you can see it'd be hard for us to manage medium or large houses. We can't do endgame/sell runs, so I don't really know how to make money faster than that. I could try, but I am afraid I'll end up spending my whole days farming/crafting soullessly without enjoying the game only to end up finding myself with no medium houses left to buy >_<...

That and, I don't know, even IF we were able to afford a medium house, would it be fair for a 3/4 people group to have one? Wouldn't it be more proper to let a larger group have it? The idea if stealing space to more worthy groups makes me feel bad.

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You're not stealing anything. If you can afford to get it, you deserve to have it. Honestly, I would be more worried about losing the house and plot if none of your 4 members are able to visit it in a 35-day span (which is coming in the next update).

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You're not stealing anything. If you can afford to get it, you deserve to have it. Honestly, I would be more worried about losing the house and plot if none of your 4 members are able to visit it in a 35-day span (which is coming in the next update).

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Honestly, I agree with that feature... I think houses should go to who would actually use them often and not unsubscribe for so long.... I do hope the feature is implemented soon, maybe then some plot will free for me and my friends.

Lol, after a lot of debate, we decided that we might've coped with a Gridania cottage, only to find out that Gridania's S houses were all taken as well.

We are a botanists/gardening enthusiast FC, so Ul'dah is out of question. I guess we'll have to wait for the next boat. :(

I feel your pain Bluevaan - my FC on Ridill has been scraping and saving since housing was first released, but because we're only a small FC we decided to just settle on a small house instead of a medium, and even then were only just managed to grab a small lot in Ward 6 of the Lavender Beds. Ironically there are still a few medium lots in the Lavander Beds left - everyone seemed to be after the small lots for some reason - they're all bought up.

I've heard rumours that there are splinter groups from one ls in different Fcs all conspiring to buy up land before others could and then not doing anything with it, simply to spite other players, but I have no idea if that is true or not (which would be a breach of the Terms of Service if it's indeed true). Given the fact how quickly blocks were being snapped on Ridill, I'm likely to believe it. :(

Isn't it like 3 million for a small house? Not to be rude, but I don't know why you wouldn't expect them to be sold immediately if all the other wards had already been full for some time. It really only takes 1 person who actually tries to make gil to afford a small house or hell, even a medium one. If even a group of 8 people had been contributing money they get from daily dungeons over the last 6 months, they'd have enough for a small house. That makes pretty much every FC a realistic contender for small plots.

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Isn't it like 3 million for a small house? Not to be rude, but I don't know why you wouldn't expect them to be sold immediately if all the other wards had already been full for some time. It really only takes 1 person who actually tries to make gil to afford a small house or hell, even a medium one. If even a group of 8 people had been contributing money they get from daily dungeons over the last 6 months, they'd have enough for a small house. That makes pretty much every FC a realistic contender for small plots.

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Well, it's 4-4.9 millions for a small plot on Balmung (or was. There's no one left now), plus a 1M for the permit, I believe. Maybe we're doing it wrong, but 4.8M was all we could make in these months. Again, we don't do endgame since we're a DoL-dedicated FC, so we can't make money selling primal runs or whatever it is other FCs do.

Gathering items, crafting, and selling is all we have been doing.

If someone can share a way to make faster money to afford a medium house (33M and up), advice is more than welcome; but please don't talk like we didn't try. We were all looking forward to the chocobo training content for this patch.