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    TouchandFeel's Avatar
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    Vespereaux Vaillantes
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    Paladin Lv 91
    Forcing competition between singular players and FC's for limited housing plots is not a good thing as the extremely rich singular players will have a huge advantage over both the more casual singular player as well as smaller FC's and most of these extremely rich singular players are most likely members of well-off FC's that already have housing, essentially giving the elite player all the housing goodies and leaving very little to none for everyone else. This creates a huge amount of inequality among the playerbase and inequality leads to anger and resentment, which is not a good thing to breed in your players as potentially unhappy players are not necessarily loyal players.

    The worst thing that this does though is that it seems to force the pricing to be the same whether for a FC or for an individual, which is ridiculous, and by linking them together it makes it incredibly hard to balance the pricing properly for both groups.

    Simply put, combined FC Housing/ Personal Housing wards are a bad idea. Separate them into different ward instances, wards only for FC Houses and wards only for Personal Houses, so that they can be individually maintained and balanced in the long run, both for pricing and the number of wards necessary for each type.
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    Player Gemma's Avatar
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    Saskia Sinwolf
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    Sargatanas
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    Archer Lv 73
    Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
    Simply put, combined FC Housing/ Personal Housing wards are a bad idea. Separate them into different ward instances, wards only for FC Houses and wards only for Personal Houses, so that they can be individually maintained and balanced in the long run, both for pricing and the number of wards necessary for each type.
    I completely agree. While having personal housing be the same price as FC house is ridiculous, it's even MORE ridiculous to me that Personal Housing will be shared in FC housing wards. Why in the hell did they combine the wards?!

    I could maybe deal with the prices, MAYBE. But making people fight other individual players AND FCs for land, that's just really messed up.
    While I'm not really one of them, there are a lot of ppl (friends included) that were really excited for this & now are completely bummed out.

    Not cool Yoshi-P... Not cool

    Quote Originally Posted by Riepah View Post
    Surely they wouldn't just make FC Houses purchasable without FC affiliation, same (insanely high) price, same (limited) place and slap a "Personal Housing" tag on them, right?

    Right?
    It does seem kind of odd doesn't it? I'd like to think they would have thought, "Well, idk guys this might piss a lot of people off... :/"
    But nope, they were like,
    "They'll love this... Why would anyone hate having to pay for a Personal House that essentially is a FC house for the exact same prices FCs pay for?! And oh! while we're at it, lets just lump them in the same ward, they'll love it!..... Two wards should be enough right?"...

    -_-
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    Last edited by Gemma; 09-16-2014 at 02:52 PM.