Five wards for personal housing on OCE?

Late April fools joke right?.. Right?..

There's not even enough FC's to fill 5 wards.

Please swap this around before the playerbase goes into an uproar after waiting 3 months for housing only to get told that 90% of the FC wards are going to be empty and players are going to have to fight over the scarce personal plots.

* Methods of sale and allocation of plots will be reassessed every patch on a per-World basis.

It's 6 wards but still not a lot.

I can remember on Spriggan on Chaos all houses were FC for months. Not sure how this is going to work given there will be lots of houses in FC wards most likely still available after the 1st round. Will they eventually allow for mixed wards or will they stay FC? I hope they'll allow mixed at some point.

I think the developers for the game see housing as a free company resource, first and foremost. A free company estate has some features a private estate just doesn't, and affords all members of the free company a room at the very least. It only stands to reason that free companies get first crack at housing - even if they go unsold until they are open to private housing. This was the case as housing became available on every other server.

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Originally Posted by Xaphire

I think the developers for the game see housing as a free company resource, first and foremost. A free company estate has some features a private estate just doesn't, and affords all members of the free company a room at the very least. It only stands to reason that free companies get first crack at housing - even if they go unsold until they are open to private housing. This was the case as housing became available on every other server.

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Yes but lets hope they're going to stop rmt from getting these because that is how entire wards were taken over by certain people with FC exclusivity. If they switch things up for the second round this could be fine and if they allow for mixed wards as well.

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Originally Posted by Tigerlilley

* Methods of sale and allocation of plots will be reassessed every patch on a per-World basis.

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Although this seems to apply to every patch which is 4 months which in my view is way too long.

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Originally Posted by Tigerlilley

* Methods of sale and allocation of plots will be reassessed every patch on a per-World basis.

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Yes, 3 month wait.

Just to have to wait another 1 month for the devs to assess the OCE situation in the next intermediate patch cycle (6.11 or 6.15).

Really an unacceptable predicament to leave OCE players in.

There is what, 100? legitimate FC's on Ravana that can buy houses, that's enough for maybe 3 wards tops?

There are more players wanting personals than FC's. Its a complete oversight by the developers.

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Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

There's not even enough FC's to fill 5 wards.

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For Materia, it's 6 wards for personals in Goblet, Lavendar Beds, Mist, Shirogane and Eperyum. So, 30 wards (1800 plots) for personals for OCE, and 95 wards (5700 plots) for FCs

I don't mind them splitting the wards but I feel like they learned nothing from the times that houses would just be sitting there for months. That's just way too many houses for FCs. I will not be shocked if entire wards get bought by 1 man FCs or resellers.

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Originally Posted by Shibi

For Materia, it's 6 wards for personals in Goblet, Lavendar Beds, Mist, Shirogane and Eperyum. So, 30 wards (1800 plots) for personals for OCE, and 95 wards (5700 plots) for FCs

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Thanks for the correction.

Still, 5700 FC ward plots is so much overkill its not even funny.

Why make it sound like this is specifically an OCE thing? It's the same across the board.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Why make it sound like this is specifically an OCE thing? It's the same across the board.

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Because OCE doesn't have any of the prior wards everyone else has that are open to personal housing also. It's another long wait for them and there are anxious players trying to set up the population base there which is...being very tested right now.

As far as I understand it. The other four housing areas will also open on Materia, under the same terms as Ishgard. So it's 6 wards and their extension in five housing areas per world. So 1800 personal plots per world.

I think Island Sanctuary might become future personal housing so they gave more current homes to FCs

Not just oceanic servers. Im crushed was waiting for ishgard hoping to get a small house just to have that hope crushed seeing that post.

so, gave up house and moved to OCE expecting to be able to repurchase after the wait ... told there would be more wards, not less, less populated server etc - only to find personals are reduced to 5 wards only? and we can just bid and pray on those few? Meanwhile, at least half of the housing will sit waiting for FCs that don't exist?


seriously reconsidering my subscription.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Why make it sound like this is specifically an OCE thing? It's the same across the board.

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Because OCE in general is having all housing released at once.

The main server has around 100 active 'legitimate' FC's that can buy houses.

There is absolutely no need for 18 wards of FC housing for us on release.

I've been reliably informed by multiple doomsayers that OCE servers are dead, so surely this is not going to be a problem anyway! ;)

Seriously though, I do agree that the current split does seem a bit of overkill.

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Originally Posted by DixieBellOCE

Because OCE in general is having all housing released at once.

The main server has around 100 active 'legitimate' FC's that can buy houses.

There is absolutely no need for 18 wards of FC housing for us on release.

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And I thought I was going to have trouble getting a house on Ravana now I know I'm guaranteed a place ty ty ty ty ty ty ty .....

Yoshi P sends his regards.