This is ridiculous..i mean come on.

There should be a limit to how many houses you can buy on a server PER ACCOUNT. You have entire wards that are very obviously bought out by one person. Could the argument be made that well they took the time to grind out the gil etc...yes. But it still really is not fair to have an ENTIRE f****** ward bought out.

The Goblet 21st ward. "Private gated neighborhood" get out of here with that level of greed in a video game. FFS we have to deal with that crap IRL.

There is a limit , it's one private one free company house per data center.

The game will not physically allow you to buy more than the limit

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Originally Posted by RavianShard

There should be a limit to how many houses you can buy on a server PER ACCOUNT. You have entire wards that are very obviously bought out by one person. Could the argument be made that well they took the time to grind out the gil etc...yes. But it still really is not fair to have an ENTIRE f****** ward bought out.

The Goblet 21st ward. "Private gated neighborhood" get out of here with that level of greed in a video game. FFS we have to deal with that crap IRL.

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What they do, is they have MULTIPLE accounts. and then use those to buy the wards. Mostly for Submarines.

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Originally Posted by Solowing

There is a limit , it's one private one free company house per data center.

The game will not physically allow you to buy more than the limit

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You do realize that you can own as many FC houses on your accounts as you wish? There is no limit and in-game limit is easily bypassed. Do you really think they would have multiple accounts for this? Hahah no. They have friends or someone who creates FC for them, buys a plot, then transfers ownership and leaves FC. Once enough time has passed, the house's ownership will be transferred to the bot account again, thus owning now 2 FC on same account.

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Originally Posted by Yuniko

What they do, is they have MULTIPLE accounts. and then use those to buy the wards. Mostly for Submarines.

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Most have just single account for this. Not multiple. Multiple are just for individual houses, for FC ones, its single.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Most have just single account for this. Not multiple. Multiple are just for individual houses, for FC ones, its single.

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Ah! ok. Thank you for the correction <3

I didn't know that.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

You do realize that you can own as many FC houses on your accounts as you wish? There is no limit and in-game limit is easily bypassed. Do you really think they would have multiple accounts for this? Hahah no. They have friends or someone who creates FC for them, buys a plot, then transfers ownership and leaves FC. Once enough time has passed, the house's ownership will be transferred to the bot account again, thus owning now 2 FC on same account.

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So they are checking in 8 plots per character, per data center, within 14 days or you lose it is crazy dedicated lol

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Originally Posted by Yuniko

What they do, is they have MULTIPLE accounts. and then use those to buy the wards. Mostly for Submarines.

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Which is why I would love nothing more than for SE to pull subs out of houses and into their own separate thing. Preferably something that enforces only one per account. I betcha a lot of plots would free up real quick then!

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Originally Posted by Kytrin

Which is why I would love nothing more than for SE to pull subs out of houses and into their own separate thing. Preferably something that enforces only one per account. I betcha a lot of plots would free up real quick then!

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Yup. I've seen some really crazy stuff with Subs. Someone going from having 100 gil in Limsa, then selling ALL the treasures from Subs, and getting Gil cap at 999.999mil gil. It's insane.

I hope subs see MASSIVE changes.

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Originally Posted by Solowing

There is a limit , it's one private one free company house per data center.

The game will not physically allow you to buy more than the limit

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This is somewhat in error.

You can buy 1 private per WORLD; not DC

Likewise for FCs; that said and sure folks already cited that you can inherit as many FCs as you have characters

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Most have just single account for this. Not multiple. Multiple are just for individual houses, for FC ones, its single.

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Technically incorrect. As you cannot own more then 9 houses on a single world with 1 account; so to own a division you need 4 accounts.

i seen 1 guy he had 11 houses in ul luc

tell that to luc on mist uldan 11 houses

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Originally Posted by JohncarterIx

tell that to luc on mist uldan 11 houses

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Sure thing...but what makes you think he has 1 service account?

You can inherit FC's - this allows you to have 8 FCs on 1 world. You can have 1 Private per world; the only exception to that rule is if your a grandfathered account where you could possess multiple houses across multiple characters; so either he is a grandfathered account (in 2018) or multiple service accounts.

To assure you - under the current design it is not possible to come into possession of more then 9 houses on one service account; so this person is either a 5.1 grandfather (and purchased another 2 private homes) or is rocking additional service accounts. Now given that your saying "LUC" I am assuming thats a FC tag; so likely they just have more then 1 service account.

Housing is so cooked that I constantly have to remind those without a house that it's not worth being upset about not having.

A small house is the only one with a slot to size ratio thats lets you make it feel not empty. The medium and especially large houses NEED those extra slots were promised for this expansion.

It's criminal we got so much housing items and feature before ACTUALLY GETTING SLOTS FOR MY 20MILLION GIL HOUSE THATS FULL DESPITE NOT BEING ABLE TO FINISH MY DOWNSTAIRS BATHROOM.

I understand why they cant punish multi housers because it would require more intrusive software to see where alt accounts are playing from. The multi housers would find ways around the system by being more subtle with character names.

The only reason they brazenly show off the same name for all houses is they now square cant touch them without compromising the game in other ways. Plus these guys PAY for multiple accounts so Square has little monetary incentive to kick them. Housing is niche side content that shouldn't be the sole reason you sub.

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Originally Posted by Reginald_Cain

A small house is the only one with a slot to size ratio thats lets you make it feel not empty.

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This guy gets it lol

Smalls are the best plot type for its size to item ratio. and the stairs don't cut into the layout. Smalls are going to be CRACKED once they get the 100 item increase.

You cant punish multi Housers, because they are separate service accounts. Again the limit is per SERVICE account. If I have 5 service accounts with 1 personal plot each, that is still within the rules. Doesn't matter if you can confirm if its 1 players 5 accounts.

The player who bought that ward out is connected the rp community and aids venues. They bought it out too repay players who have helped them. Crazy yes, annoying yes, realizing that chaos the that could ensue if things go south on them priceless. Personally I would not waste that kind of money on people. I have not met personally and know for many many years. Far too many risks involved with what the player is doing.

The saddest part is that SE and the GM's could very easily put a stop to this, but in reality they don't give a care in the world about actually making housing fair. it would not take horrendous amounts of time or effort for someone on the GM team to take a look through all the wards every now and then and actually stop this from happening. But making housing fair for all players is one of the least of their concerns, that's why we rarely even get any housing updates rather than just new furniture.

Allow Private Houses to have a workshop.

Maybe make it a purchaseable addon that can cost gil.

"Workshop Permit" or whatever.

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Originally Posted by Solowing

There is a limit , it's one private one free company house per data center.

The game will not physically allow you to buy more than the limit

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This is actually incorrect information.

You are allowed one private house and one FC house per World (server), not per Data Center.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/

This means that someone could theoretically own 64 homes in the North America region if they used 32 characters to buy a personal and Free Company home on every World.

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Originally Posted by MayuAmakura

Most have just single account for this. Not multiple. Multiple are just for individual houses, for FC ones, its single.

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You can have 8 characters on a world. There are 30 plots in a ward - I point this out as the original complaint was someone owning an entire ward

While it IS true you can transfer a FC; the math still works out the same way; 8 characters per world. So even passing lead does not circumvent the hard character limit with 1 account - they would pretty much need 4 accounts to buy out a ward for themselves...thats like a 100$ sub before considering the fact they got to buy the game multiple times and to say nothing of the time invested by them to level the alts needed to bid as a FC in the first place.

Keep in mind with the exception of grandfathered accounts you cannot own more then 1 private home per world - this is not able to be circumvented.

If Square wanted it gone; they have eyes and can clearly see the entire ward with the same company tag and could likely enable the same code they use for private homes. Honestly I wish they just allowed people to have a "bigger" workshop to remove the need for those people to own that many FCs

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Originally Posted by Ayan_Calvesse

If Square wanted it gone; they have eyes and can clearly see the entire ward with the same company tag and could likely enable the same code they use for private homes.

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It may already be more or less the same code. The system looking for what character last purchased a specific private house is going to lead it to the exact same character that owns the private house since there's no way to transfer it.

What they would need to do is change the FC system so that only one character per world on an account can be FC Master. It wouldn't completely solve the problem but a player would then need a minimum of 15 accounts to buy out an entire ward instead of only 4. I know they've stated concern about that possibly force-disbanding FCs under certain circumstances but those situations have to be extremely rare when it's a legitimate FC with multiple unique player accounts instead of a gil farmer. It's pretty unlikely that a FC with 4 unique players would have each of those players also the FC Master of a different FC on the same world.