more houses coming in 3.0?

Does anyone know if we are going to be getting any more plots added in 3.0? I know we won't be able to add housing in Ishgard for awhile, but we still need more plots available to the masses. There isn't a single plot open on Excalibur so we are forced to buy FC's and/or overpay like hell just to get someone to relinquish the land and then pay overpriced full plot values.

With the addition of airships we need more housing, there is one player on the server who has at least 13 houses held by alts. And quite a few other players hold 2-3 houses while the majority can't even get one.

i hope they will...

Just so you're ready, if you think full house prices are overpriced, I'd recommend you try to get over that hump when you're thinking of buying your house.. Because even if they did add new housing wards, if your server has no plots left, it WILL all get snatched up at full price before they have a chance to depreciate..

I've got plenty of gil, it's very easy to make in this game. There is just no plots to buy and people are wanting 20m in some cases just to let the plot go.

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Originally Posted by jagang

I've got plenty of gil, it's very easy to make in this game. There is just no plots to buy and people are wanting 20m in some cases just to let the plot go.

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Well, if you have the money, I guess it wouldn't be an issue.. I was just pointing out that, once you get over that hump in your mind about paying a premium such as 20m gil for houses, it will be easier to adjust. Easier said than done of course..

i.e. having grown up with new games in the $40-45 range, I still can't grasp how new games today can be $60+ and don't even get me started on console prices... That's what prevents me from buying a console.. Do I have the money to buy it? Sure, it just doesn't feel quite right to spend that much on it though.. Even though that's what they are actually valued at.. I'm just denying myself the joy by not accepting the change.. I know it logically.. Still can't do it though :D

So, do houses actually get put back on the market if the fc goes inactive or not? I hear multiple different things on this, but 3 FC's near me are always at 0 online.

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Originally Posted by jagang

So, do houses actually get put back on the market if the fc goes inactive or not? I hear multiple different things on this, but 3 FC's near me are always at 0 online.

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nope and they said earlier that they feel the need for housing is fulfilled for most servers, so i doubt we will see any for awhile

They also said they want to focus on other things for housing before adding more plots.

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Originally Posted by Xeynaar

They also said they want to focus on other things for housing before adding more plots.

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This is a big problem. What is the point of doing more stuff with housing when most people are homeless? I have literally camped the housing wards for hours and days and have yet to see anyone use most of the houses. My guess is that they are all inactive. What they need to do is limit one house per server, per account and do a housing purge of all of the inactive homes. They need to make you log in once a month like Ultima Online or else your house decays within a week after the month time has passed.

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Originally Posted by Madjames

This is a big problem. What is the point of doing more stuff with housing when most people are homeless? I have literally camped the housing wards for hours and days and have yet to see anyone use most of the houses. My guess is that they are all inactive. What they need to do is limit one house per server, per account and do a housing purge of all of the inactive homes. They need to make you log in once a month like Ultima Online or else your house decays within a week after the month time has passed.

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the feature they introduce are FC house function, which make sense when the up coming expansion have thing to do with fly so they add in the building airship feature.

The purge of inactive house is need, I have a neighbour who bought a medium plot and never build the house, personally I do not like that so I am agree with the purge. However I am not agree with the one month thing because it will be hard for ppl to travel for vacation, or travel around the world with their work, that is the reason why the one month idea was push back by SE

Just to confirm what OPs saying... on excalibur there are several people who own multiple houses for growing operations. I have no problem with people having enough gil to pull this sorta thing off just a problem with others who are shite outta luck because of the shortage... If all the new zones are 50-100% bigger than i think housing land in these new zones should reflect that. And with more land you should be able to grow tons of crops (ya like a farm lol) which should be more valuable to those before mentioned multiple home owners because i could only imagine how tedious it would be to water/fertilize all those plants. So they would sell all the other places for a farm ^_^ Best advice i could give is have the gil ready because this is something they will eventually work out, whether it be new zones, wards or sub divisions... just make sure you are ready.

It has been said that if at all they will just expand the existing land but not add some. We upgraded our FC last weekend and it was the very last plot for a mansion so they really should expand more.

They must be adding more housing wards before 3.0. I'm sure there are a ton of new FCs looking to buy, but literally everything on Hyperion is taken.

Additional Housing plots are a necessity. Why they aren't being added is a grand mystery! I hope they're in come the expansion, because they keep adding stuff to housing when not everyone can get a house.

I would like to be able to expand a house without loosing everything since they force a lot of the furniture to be deleted if we try to pick it up.

Anyone knows if they are working on this?

If not, then can we package furnitures into an untradable/unsellable item that can be open and reuse in the new house?

Isn't the housing team busy with FC crafting and extending housing features (rumors about upping item limits for larges?!)?
It's dangerous to get your hopes up about housing around here.
If they haven't said they'll be adding new wards then I doubt they will.

A while ago when asked if a new residential area was going to be added to Ishgard, Yoshi stated that Ishgard would not be getting housing due to the Dragonsong War making that difficult. But then gave a subtle hint that the existing housing wards would be expanded by telling players to go back to the existing housing wards in 3.0 instead if you need a house. It wasn't a direct confirmation new wards are coming, but, it more seemed that was what they are planning but had not yet gotten to that stage. If I remember rightly it was in one of the Letters From the Producer Live videos, so I'll try looking for the quote in question.

EDIT: found it here in two places, one basically stating that they will "continue to add more land", and the second directly responding to why Ishgard won't be getting a housing area:

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Originally Posted by Gildrein

Q: Large size houses feel empty. Can you increase the cap on the amount of furnishings we can place?
A: We’ve been using all our energy to increase the amount of land, so we haven’t been able to touch this aspect of housing. However, with the new wards that were added, I feel that we’ve just about fulfilled the demands.

We’ll continue to add more land, but we’d like to improve the utility of each house.

However, the team that is in charge of housing, known as the Live Team, is also in charge of Free Company elements and the Gold Saucer, and they’re currently devoting all their energy to Free Company crafting and the Gold Saucer. We expect that they will be able to address this afterwards, but they will need a bit of time.

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Originally Posted by Gildrein

Q: Will you be implementing housing areas in Ishgard as well?
A: Ishgard is a land where there is still an intense war going on between humans and dragons, so it’s not really the time to build houses there.

I’ve been talking about whether we can add this sometime after the expansion, but we wouldn’t be doing this at the same time as the expansion and as I can’t make any promises in regards to the timeframe, for those of you who are wondering if there will be new housing areas in the expansion, I urge you to look into housing in the current three city-states.

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So, that's pretty compelling evidence that new housing is coming in 3.0 to the existing residential areas - we just have to be patient. ;)

one could deduce that they will add three new housing areas based off the 9 new areas (like lavender beds (shroud) goblet (thanalan) mist (la noscea)

My only wish is that, like the new areas, these wards offer plots 50-100% bigger (like a farm) where one could grow a crap ton more than just 8 things because a lot of the housing in excalibur was snatched up by those who use them for gardening only.

So start saving now... floating island housing sounds like the one for me!!!

Because personal housing and FC housing are essentially the same, there are zero small house plots on Leviathan for my rather small FC. :( It shouldn't be this hard to find a place that isn't 15-50 million gil! I mean, I don't think I'm asking for much when I want to get my FC members a small house so they can dye their chocobos and such, perhaps even doing some of the FC crafting/airship stuff later. I hope it's sooner rather than later~

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Originally Posted by zeopower6

Because personal housing and FC housing are essentially the same, there are zero small house plots on Leviathan for my rather small FC. :( It shouldn't be this hard to find a place that isn't 15-50 million gil! I mean, I don't think I'm asking for much when I want to get my FC members a small house so they can dye their chocobos and such, perhaps even doing some of the FC crafting/airship stuff later. I hope it's sooner rather than later~

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and you should aim for a medium or a large house instead of small

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Originally Posted by Shneibel

and you should aim for a medium or a large house instead of small

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I don't need a medium or large. D:

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Originally Posted by zeopower6

I don't need a medium or large. D:

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it is not about need, it is about : how fast is your "run speed" when the server goes up to competition against other player on small house. If it take 5-10 min for Excalibur small house to sold out , I doubt leviathan will be any better

This is not about need, but an advice to you, if you want a to have a house

Yep.. If there's not a single house plot left on your server, your best bet is to save up enough to buy a medium plot as they are the last ones to go.
Depending on server, before depreciation, about 15m. Beats getting all excited about new wards being added then waking up to all the plots being sold :D

Just bite the bullet and farm some gil, it'll make your life easier and also provide a bigger house for your FC members to play with.

Hm, I'm not really picky about the location or anything so I'll save up and snatch a house up when they open more up. I have other things to use my savings on for the time being (crafting progression into 4* but almost done, rest of Lucis) which is why I'm pretty against using anything other than a small because the house is not too high on priorities since it's just a small handful of us active at the moment. I just want to be able to provide them with somewhere to teleport to and a chocobo stable at some point and if it has to be after 3.0 launches, so be it.

The plots went really slowly on Leviathan especially in the subdivisions so I am not too worried about not being able to get one when new wards are opened up. It's just that I got this FC a little late into personal housing being introduced with no permissions to buy land back when we did have a lot of nice small plots available so it was pretty disappointing to look through even the deepest sections of The Goblet to see nothing other than maybe one Medium and a handful of Larges available.

With that said, I will see how things go with new wards when they are introduced before deciding between small/medium and until then I'll be storing gil here and there in the FC chest. Hopefully we will have enough by then to be able to consider a medium.