Can we start a list of all servers where small housing is already sold out?

[CainLear]

The price is fine especially considering fc's bought a good chunk of it today that have been waiting on it for a long while so they had plenty of gil (if you do a bunch of gathering and crafting its not too hard but 30 mil for a mid is pushing it for single players). But i'm still thinking in legacy servers in 2.4 housing will get ate up almost just as fast give or take a few minutes.)

[Jesden]

The price is fine especially considering fc's bought a good chunk of it today that have been waiting on it for a long while so they had plenty of gil (if you do a bunch of gathering and crafting its not too hard but 30 mil for a mid is pushing it for single players). But i'm still thinking in legacy servers in 2.4 housing will get ate up almost just as fast give or take a few minutes.)

Especially now as there is a rough estimate of how much they will need.

[HaroldSaxon]

its not about the cost. It is about the demand compared to what was supplied. in 20 minutes, every single small house on Balmung was sold out, most of those to individuals.

Which is a fair point, as i've said in a number of posts (including the one above yours), and SE have addressed as they are going to be doubling the wards in 2.4. So no need for yet another housing thread.

[Zathir]

Which is a fair point, as i've said in a number of posts (including the one above yours), and SE have addressed as they are going to be doubling the wards in 2.4. So no need for yet another housing thread.

Do you see any other post attempting to catalogue the servers which are rapidly filling, and the extent of the scarcity problem?

No? Well then try having a little empathy rather than making useless sarcastic comments and making a ton of posts complaining that people are complaining. Not everyone has access to that amount of money in such a time that they can obtain a house.

The price would not be an issue if there weren't severe scarcity, but as it stands even 2.4 isn't going to add a fraction of the houses required for the player base so those with less gil will simply not have access to the content. The issue is rooted in the incredibly low number of plots available, and the fact that they are shared with Free Companies. Doubling a small number still gives you a small number relative to the hundreds of thousands playing this game.

[Chione]

All the homeless fc's ate all of it damn quick.

On Balmung, all of the small houses are indeed gone in the Mists. 90% of them went to individuals. It is of course, their right with how this was implemented, but it does make the situation so much sadder for those hopeful FCs who were already snubbed out of a house with the last land race on overpopulated servers.

And beyond the 40 lucky souls who managed to snag a house for themselves in the Mists, there's the thousands of individuals that have been waiting for personal housing because they are either FC-less, in a homeless FC, or in an FC where the leaders don't allow the peons any of the housing perks.

It was irresponsible to implement this in this way, and force both of these very large groups to players compete with each other over such limited space and high prices, when some of the content houses provide should absolutely be available to everyone. (Chocobo coloring specifically, IMO)

ETA: I'd check the other wards for confirmation, but the controller movement delay is too durn annoying to play the game with right now. ^^;

[ZodiacSoldier]

4 mil or so really isnt hard to get, if you do the dailies and have a crafter leveled you can easily get like 100k a day just by doing the Ixali dailies and using the tokens you get to buy mats and craft HQ items, I was lucky enough to get a house in one of the old wards for 2.3 mil or so in Ul'dah before they were all sold out, had to get up at 7am though.

Currently the housing available is like this per server:
30 House per Ward (3 Large, 7 Medium, 20 Small)
8 Wards per City (6 Old Wards, 2 New Wards that just started deflation process, will still be another 3 months before prices at lowest, but chances are houses will be bought before price drops)
3 Cities (Limsa is probably the most popular, followed by Gridania then Ul'dah, at least based on my server)

So there are 720 Houses Available, however there are 3 Large houses and 7 Medium Houses per Ward, and its not often an individual can afford one, not to mention that they probably aren't available.

So the there is 480 small houses available per server, then we have to probably divide that number to include all the houses that are already owned by FC. So there will probably be about maybe 100 to 400 houses available per server depending on server population, hardly enough for the amount people playing. Even with patch 2.4 where they will double the wards, there will only be 960 small houses per server.

And from my Understanding server population is from 15,000 to 150,000, so yea... about 1000 people will own houses on each server in patch 2.4.

[Mjollnir]

Small plots on Sargatanas are sold out on Lavender Beds and Mist, but there are still some plots remaining at The Goblet.

100% to individuals btw - none to any FCs yet

[HaroldSaxon]

Do you see any other post attempting to catalogue the servers which are rapidly filling, and the extent of the scarcity problem?

No? Well then try having a little empathy rather than making useless sarcastic comments and making a ton of posts complaining that people are complaining. Not everyone has access to that amount of money in such a time that they can obtain a house.

The price would not be an issue if there weren't severe scarcity, but as it stands even 2.4 isn't going to add a fraction of the houses required for the player base so those with less gil will simply not have access to the content. The issue is rooted in the incredibly low number of plots available, and the fact that they are shared with Free Companies. Doubling a small number still gives you a small number relative to the hundreds of thousands playing this game.

Then we'll see during 2.4. Doubling 720 to 1440 isn't a small number, with 1200 of them small houses. Small. Okay.

[Zathir]

Then we'll see during 2.4. Doubling 720 to 1440 isn't a small number, with 1200 of them small houses. Small. Okay.

You misunderstand relativity.

Whether 1,400 is small is entirely dependant on the population of the server. There are without a doubt a great deal more than 1,440 people on the average server and thus 1,400 is a very small number relative to the amount of houses required (10,000 per server would be much more reasonable).

[Centershock]

Then we'll see during 2.4. Doubling 720 to 1440 isn't a small number, with 1200 of them small houses. Small. Okay.

1440 is not going to be nearly enough for a highly populated server like Balmung. Especially now that people are going to be saving up the money and racing to get the small plots first.