Please give us more housing wards/plots

I think that i´m not only one who wish that there is more housing wards/plots because it is hard to get medium or large house to yourself or fc. There is so many smalls free but no one wants them because people trying to get medium or large house. It shouldn´t be that hard to add those ingame. Please also add housing wards to dawntrail areas. Our fc tried to get medium house but without zero luck and we really need it.

everyone wants a house but when a small becomes available no one wants to buy it because they want a large, what needs to happen is when they add more wards is to also add more large houses as 1 per ward is clearly not enough since large is the only house everyone seems to want

me personally when ishgard housing went up i went and secured me a small house while everyone else was fighting over the large

What they should do is increase the wards based on server size and demand, not one giant lump increase for every world/data center, since we have been hearing complaints about some servers not even having wards filled up.

(make instanced housing)

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

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doubt that'll ever happen yoshi p wants the wards to feel like a community even though the wards are always empty despite all the housing being owned

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

everyone wants a house but when a small becomes available no one wants to buy it because they want a large, what needs to happen is when they add more wards is to also add more large houses as 1 per ward is clearly not enough since large is the only house everyone seems to want

me personally when ishgard housing went up i went and secured me a small house while everyone else was fighting over the large

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Except even getting a small is hell. My friends and I started our own FC and spent 3 months trying to even get a small, we weren't even trying for a medium. We only got a house because a defunct FC wanted to ensure their spot went to a RP FC that would put it to use. Unfortunately, for those who aren't as lucky to find such a benefactor they are stuck in the grind losing smalls to private owners.

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Originally Posted by Gunz_Zbestest

What they should do is increase the wards based on server size and demand, not one giant lump increase for every world/data center, since we have been hearing complaints about some servers not even having wards filled up.

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It's ok, You can say Dynamis

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Originally Posted by Gunz_Zbestest

What they should do is increase the wards based on server size and demand, not one giant lump increase for every world/data center, since we have been hearing complaints about some servers not even having wards filled up.

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This^ 100% agree. We have low inventory on Greg with over 300+ people bidding in every auction on whatever is available. I am on a 7+ month streak of "better luck next time." Some have commented that it took them 5+ years to get a house. Meanwhile, some here have multiple houses, even an entire ward of houses. Moving is not really an option for me, and that is the only option I have - other than quit playing. They need to do something to fix housing. As is, a house is the rarest thing in the game - not a weapon or mount (as it should be). Adding additional wards would be a step in the right direction at least. Instanced housing like the Island would allow everybody to get a house even if for a cost. Win a plot and purchase any size house you want or can afford then have the ability to upgrade it (will something similar happen?). I could even get behind weighting bids in favor of those trying the longest, which would def not be fair to all. Instead, zero is being done now. Maybe in a future patch sometime down the road... Better luck next time!

I think small houses will go a lot faster once they put in the new thing where you can make the interior bigger. Granted, who knows when that'll happen? I'd be surprised if we see that before the .5 patch.

Also, we just need instanced housing. The current system is dumb.

as of this moment there is ONE medium in all of twintania. and thats not great for an fc building. these plots keep going to venue owners to use as degen-dens and deprive actual fcs or real housing for community events

https://zhu.codes/paissa?world=33&sort=size:2

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Originally Posted by sindriiisgaming

as of this moment there is ONE medium in all of twintania. and thats not great for an fc building. these plots keep going to venue owners to use as degen-dens and deprive actual fcs or real housing for community events

https://zhu.codes/paissa?world=33&sort=size:2

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What, you don't like venues? Who else would bring you such FFXIV classics like...

https://i.imgur.com/IBMMHAA.png

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

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For real.

Island Sanctuary would have been perfect for this, but alas...

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Originally Posted by Gunz_Zbestest

What they should do is increase the wards based on server size and demand, not one giant lump increase for every world/data center, since we have been hearing complaints about some servers not even having wards filled up.

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Come on think of what that would do to the poor server hamster!

https://media.tenor.com/quH-6i5J35gA...ster-wheel.gif

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

everyone wants a house but when a small becomes available no one wants to buy it because they want a large, what needs to happen is when they add more wards is to also add more large houses as 1 per ward is clearly not enough since large is the only house everyone seems to want

me personally when ishgard housing went up i went and secured me a small house while everyone else was fighting over the large

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Pretty much yeah
make some lots that are only larges or something, there's hundreds of unclaimed smalls out there

I had proposed where they also allow you to upgrade the outside plots too so any plot could be a large. They would have to expand all housing plots to accommodate all larges if they were upgraded, this would go a long way to solving the issue of fighting for current mansions. The only other solution is to move to Dynamis but I understand many players don't want that. I sent my main alt to Seraph when it went live and now has her own P60 Shiro mansion and while it took about 7 years to finally get a personal mansion for my main in Exodus this past June.

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Originally Posted by RhaenysT

This^ 100% agree. We have low inventory on Greg with over 300+ people bidding in every auction on whatever is available. I am on a 7+ month streak of "better luck next time." Some have commented that it took them 5+ years to get a house. Meanwhile, some here have multiple houses, even an entire ward of houses. Moving is not really an option for me, and that is the only option I have - other than quit playing. They need to do something to fix housing. As is, a house is the rarest thing in the game - not a weapon or mount (as it should be). Adding additional wards would be a step in the right direction at least. Instanced housing like the Island would allow everybody to get a house even if for a cost. Win a plot and purchase any size house you want or can afford then have the ability to upgrade it (will something similar happen?). I could even get behind weighting bids in favor of those trying the longest, which would def not be fair to all. Instead, zero is being done now. Maybe in a future patch sometime down the road... Better luck next time!

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Why isn't moving to a server where there is available housing an option for you?

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Originally Posted by ryouma17

everyone wants a house but when a small becomes available no one wants to buy it because they want a large, what needs to happen is when they add more wards is to also add more large houses as 1 per ward is clearly not enough since large is the only house everyone seems to want

me personally when ishgard housing went up i went and secured me a small house while everyone else was fighting over the large

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Oh same, and I traded up for a medium, later, but that smol was good to me for a couple years. Smol hous is better than no hous. Especially if you're in an FC. Take the free house for starts, then worry about getting into a melee for the bigger stuff later.

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Originally Posted by JimCasey_RF6

Why isn't moving to a server where there is available housing an option for you?

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If I were to guess, *possibly* because they don't want to leave behind playgroups. You could say 'data center transfer', I'll remind you how jank and locked out that is on some servers--especially low pop ones right now.

Or maybe they're in an FC they really like and they don't want to leave it. Or hell, maybe they're planning to do an Eternal Bonding with someone there. There's plenty of potential reasons if you spend five seconds to think about it.

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Originally Posted by Basteala

If I were to guess, *possibly* because they don't want to leave behind playgroups. You could say 'data center transfer', I'll remind you how jank and locked out that is on some servers--especially low pop ones right now.

Or maybe they're in an FC they really like and they don't want to leave it. Or hell, maybe they're planning to do an Eternal Bonding with someone there. There's plenty of potential reasons if you spend five seconds to think about it.

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I spent at least 10 seconds thinking about it.

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Originally Posted by NegativeS

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It really would add so many more possibilities to housing, as well as solve the supply issues! Just think of all the things you could do if they weren’t constrained by the server restrictions of the permanently loaded wards! We saw a little hint of that with the Island. If they really want to bring the game up to date for the next 10 years, and make it competitive to others, adding an instanced option should be at the top of the list, since other games that don’t even require a sub offer multiple housing options for all their players.

Instanced housing. Pretty please ?

The idea of locking small or medium house players to that size is inherently idiotic. If the XIV team cared so much for prestige, they wouldn't have made Endwalker relics the way they were. Just make every plot the same size, with houses starting small then expandable when the owner pays a certain amount of gil or achieve a certain milestone... like every life simulator game.

plenty of unused plots on the vaste majority of servers

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Originally Posted by Merrigan

Instanced housing. Pretty please ?

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You could say apartments are instanced housing with extra steps.

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Originally Posted by ReynTime

The idea of locking small or medium house players to that size is inherently idiotic. If the XIV team cared so much for prestige, they wouldn't have made Endwalker relics the way they were. Just make every plot the same size, with houses starting small then expandable when the owner pays a certain amount of gil or achieve a certain milestone... like every life simulator game.

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That is exactly what they should have done. The history of housing was not built for longevity. It inevitably goes back to the spaghetti code and how they can only build upon what they have already created. That's why they have to be so careful about what they add. At least from my understanding.

Give us a Solution 9 housing ward.

I don´t have any intention to switch servers and there is few reasons to that... first of all,we have good fc and second of all i have all my friends here and 3rd reason is that my eternal bond companion is also same server. I don´t want to marry again because i need to pay that again and it´s just waste of money.

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Originally Posted by KittyCat87

I don´t have any intention to switch servers and there is few reasons to that... first of all,we have good fc and second of all i have all my friends here and 3rd reason is that my eternal bond companion is also same server. I don´t want to marry again because i need to pay that again and it´s just waste of money.

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But it would be so romantic if you and your spouse transferred servers together to get the house of your dreams.

i can get that all people would love upgrades to small houses and it was mentioned but what then what happens to people in meds that then want a upgrade or people with larges then wanting an upgrade cause it's not a if this will happen but almost a given this will happen i get the struggle of getting a large house it took me 8 months of bidding but ppl will start complaining their houses wont get upgrades in the end i don't think this will do what they hope this would do true small houses might sell but i don't think this is the best solution hopefully they can think of something better then trying to patch things up like this

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Originally Posted by Nurana

i get the struggle of getting a large house it took me 8 months of bidding

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My girlfriend has been trying every single cycle since the lottery system came out in April 2022, for a Large, and mediums when no larges were available, and still no success. Many people have been trying longer.

They already mentioned to be thinking about the interior upgrades and I have not seen complaints. "But people will complain" is a bad faith argument without bringing anything to the discussion, besides whining that you want to be able to brag owning a large over those who don't.

We do need instanced housing. Not to replace the ward system, but to take the pressure of it. If only they had included a housing plot on Island Sanctuary, which would functionally allow everything you can do on a ward plot (gardening, placing indoor furniture, decorate, workshop), we'd be there already.

But it will always run up against the business logic - if housing exists in a personal instance like the Island does, there is no longer any reason why players would accept that our houses are demolished if we're unsubbed for over 45 days. SE knows that "I do not want to lose my house" is the reason why we have so many zombie accounts that continue to pay even when they don't play.

Square Enix should limit housing to one house per account, a policy that should have been implemented years ago. Allowing players to hoard houses solely to farm Submarines is unreasonable and clearly not what was originally intended.

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Originally Posted by EmeraldSerenade

Square Enix should limit housing to one house per account, a policy that should have been implemented years ago. Allowing players to hoard houses solely to farm Submarines is unreasonable and clearly not what was originally intended.

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Account wide locks would be problematic to people with alts on different servers and data centers, which has legitimate use cases due to things that are homeworld locked. This wouldn't be a popular measure unless coupled with a mixed ward/instance system -- in that case, it would be totally fair to lock people to one house per account in a ward, while still allowing alts on other data centers to have an instanced place to put their furniture.

Now, a more strictly enforced one house per account per homeworld, I would absolutely support. That would at least force all those submarine farmers with dozens of alt-transferred shell FCs to at least have a different paid account for each FC house they control on a world and maybe end the "some people own whole wards" thing.

They need to do away with this system and give something more scalable.

They want it to function like a 'friendly neighborhood" - But it's rarely if ever used in this manner by the community.

I never understood why some players try to own an entire ward. If I were a sublord, I'd aim to acquire all the prime mediums and larges not a bunch of measly smalls.

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Originally Posted by JimCasey_RF6

I never understood why some players try to own an entire ward. If I were a sublord, I'd aim to acquire all the prime mediums and larges not a bunch of measly smalls.

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A cottage or a mansion run the same number of submarines. For submarine farmers, it is about quantity, not quality. Owning 20 smalls at 3M each vs owning 1 large at 60M means twenty times the income generated.

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Originally Posted by Eyrilona

A cottage or a mansion run the same number of submarines. For submarine farmers, it is about quantity, not quality. Owning 20 smalls at 3M each vs owning 1 large at 60M means twenty times the income generated.

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it's closer to twelve times the income, you didn't factor in buying the construction permits or the workshops

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Originally Posted by LibitIncarne

it's closer to twelve times the income, you didn't factor in buying the construction permits or the workshops

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That doesn't sound right? Every sub farming FC plot has the same average long term revenue stream. Each also needs to buy the workshop exactly once per such revenue stream to be created, and also one construction permit exactly. In terms of setup cost adjusted revenue, you'd still come out at twenty times.

Yeah, I only run my FC submarines and that's like 500k - 1.7 mill every two days. Even with the new levels added to the submarines in patches the amounts have stayed the same. I don't need to "make gil" anymore after I set up the submarines and leveled them.

Multiply that with someone with a whole fleet of submarines and you get how much SE shot themselves in the foot with the housing problem.

Please add more wards and give every ward more large housing plots.