So My Neighbors Quit the Game & Left Behind Their Abandoned FC House

[Rosy]

Why get rid of them? Other games keep your house indefinitely....I still have houses in Rift....which may encourage me to go back to that game sometime, knowing that all the work I did building it and it will still be there.

[Musashidon]

Why get rid of them? Other games keep your house indefinitely....I still have houses in Rift....which may encourage me to go back to that game sometime, knowing that all the work I did building it and it will still be there.

well that's what this thread is for.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ming-Patch-2.3

this a thread with people who feel they shouldn't put the system in place. can always put your 2cents in

[HaelseMikiro]

The only legitimate complaint about this is that these abandoned FC houses are preventing new and active FC from getting a plot.

I also reside in Mist on Diabolos server, and I'm counting 19 un-purchased plots of land still across the 6 wards. Small, Medium and Large all available. Maybe this will be an issue in the near future with FCs being prevented from buying property, but at the time of this post I'd say we have a player shortage

[Alukah]

I also reside in Mist on Diabolos server, and I'm counting 19 un-purchased plots of land still across the 6 wards. Small, Medium and Large all available. Maybe this will be an issue in the near future with FCs being prevented from buying property, but at the time of this post I'd say we have a player shortage

And that's just mist, our goblet is a ghost town and lavender beds still has around half the plots free, the shortage only affects legacy servers.

I honestly think they should deal with this issue on a per-server basis, they won't add more wards to legacy / extreme pop servers because it would affect the resources of all servers, but they could add wards only to legacy / extreme servers and leave high, mid and low pop servers as they are right now.

[Baneus]

And that's just mist, our goblet is a ghost town and lavender beds still has around half the plots free, the shortage only affects legacy servers.

I honestly think they should deal with this issue on a per-server basis, they won't add more wards to legacy / extreme pop servers because it would affect the resources of all servers, but they could add wards only to legacy / extreme servers and leave high, mid and low pop servers as they are right now.

I think all the Goblet wards are like that on every server. Which is a shame, because it's a pretty area.

[Elim]

here it is.

What they mean by that is they're going to change the color of the text that pops up when you loose your land so it's easier to see. They aren't changing the length of time before getting booted or anything like that.

[Surian]

The house should be overgrown with weeds & overrun with vermin. & an abandoned airship in the front yard, on cinder blocks.

I would like this, i'd love to see those little rats outside limsa on an abandoned property. Something to kill in town. Maybe a Botanist can get a harvesting node on some of the plants too for an uncommon item.

[Ashkendor]

I also reside in Mist on Diabolos server, and I'm counting 19 un-purchased plots of land still across the 6 wards. Small, Medium and Large all available. Maybe this will be an issue in the near future with FCs being prevented from buying property, but at the time of this post I'd say we have a player shortage

Before 2.3 when the new wards were added, there was not a single Medium plot available anywhere on Sargatanas. Since 2.3, Mist ward 6 has filled up aside from a couple of Larges and Smalls. Lavender Beds ward 6 has all of 7 plots left (all Small and Large). Even Goblet, though unpopular, is starting to see some activity as the other wards fill up. We have visitors to our FC house daily, and I often stop and talk to people in the ward itself.

A lot of the "neighborhood" feeling simply comes from having a high server population.

[Saccharin]

So my FC is at Plot 4, 1st Ward, Mist (Diabolos) and our neighbors at plot 6 are down to one member, and they're not active in the game anymore. There are a few other plots on our Ward that have also been abandoned. I can imagine this is probably going on at other wards too.

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What do you guys think?

I commented on this before. This really was easily predictable. New FCs are formed and fold every day. Our FC has a medium plot in Ward 1 on Moogle and we use it all the time. I decided to go for a little wander and inspected all three of the large houses and from what I gathered two of the three large plots were abandoned. The FCs were down to a small amount of players and it didn't seem that anyone logged in. I look at every house and there were a lot of properties that seemed to belong to abandoned guilds. There needs to be a system to strip abandoned FCs of their plots after so long. Perhaps a 'storage container' for old properties so when they come back they get a new plot in a new ward and don't loose their house and contents. Adding new wards with a few house active just isn't tenable.

[Shneibel]

the system will be pretty simple. you don't enter your fc house(basically proving to the game you're still there) you lose it.

this also means anyone can enter. meaning even if 100 people are inactive only 1 person needs to step foot into the house to reset the timer.

and then soon we will see a thread say a FC with 100 active memeber lose their house because no one enter it, that ll be hilarious