No FC room, no personal house... big deal??

[NyarukoW]

You are on a Tiny server, on the medium/larger populated servers, the small houses have sold out.
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Last I check, at 97K population is certainly bigger than balmung. See:http://xivsoul.com/

It is actually the 5th most populated NA server, hardly count as tiny.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

lets just all agree that medium and large houses should not be ownable by fc's consisting of below 10 members, and that the personal house system should permit sharing with friends regardless of fc.

FC housing is a place to gather together with your friends.

Disagree.

not all friends are in the same FC and not everyone within an FC are friends.

do agree that the wards should not be combined.... each of the cities had a residental area that could have been opened up and used for this.

[NyneAlexander]

Last I check, at 97K population is certainly bigger than balmung. See:http://xivsoul.com/

It is actually the 5th most populated NA server, hardly count as tiny.

So I looked into the numbers from xivsoul to try and figure out why Faerie might still have housing available at 97k population, and Balmung does not, at 81k population. I think the reason (and this could apply to my server excalibur as well) is that on Faerie there are 97,300 people and 1200 Free Companies. On Balmung, there are 80,800 people, but 1800 Free Companies. On excalibur, there are 63,800 people to 1400 FC. So it seems like the people on Balmung and Excalibur are more organized into Free Companies, and might have more organized resources to collectively put towards a house. Whereas, on Faerie, its more driven by the individual, who might still be gated by the hefty pricetags, thus you still have housing available.

Of course all of this could have been circumvented if FC HOUSING AND PERSONAL HOUSING WERE NOT THE SAME THING.

[NyarukoW]

... I think the reason (and this could apply to my server excalibur as well) is that on Faerie there are 97,300 people and 1200 Free Companies. On Balmung, there are 80,800 people, but 1800 Free Companies. On excalibur, there are 63,800 people to 1400 FC. ...

I don't know how you are getting the counts for FCs. But from what it seems, lower population with more FCs means, that there are people forming solo FCs with the sole intent of get getting around the FC system to get that solo house before 2.38, and those server have the the same trouble maker doing the same thing again right after 2.38. Form a FC bring people into your FC and share and build a community, that should be how it is. But those trouble makers are probably busy buying the up the lots and then trying to get people to pay to relinquish them and making a profit.

[NyneAlexander]

I don't know how you are getting the counts for FCs. But from what it seems, lower population with more FCs means, that there are people forming solo FCs with the sole intent of get getting around the FC system to get that solo house before 2.38, and those server have the the same trouble maker doing the same thing again right after 2.38. Form a FC bring people into your FC and share and build a community, that should be how it is. But those trouble makers are probably busy buying the up the lots and then trying to get people to pay to relinquish them and making a profit.

If you click on the server on xivsoul, the text in the header will tell you the population as well as the number of free companies.

[Tiggy]

Add a way to grow personal plants in my room and I'll be golden.

[Kusari-chan]

What I didn't like was every small plot being sold out within 10 minutes of the servers going up [...] this was poorly thought out. Personal houses should have been separate instances.

EXACTLY. I was under the impression that square was working to ADD personal housing. This is not an addition, this is like they just got mad and gave up and said "Here you go! Personal housing TADAH!" I understand the strain on servers adding a separate area where people could purchase personal houses would have caused, but this is kind of a half-baked alternative. Letting individuals buy houses that were originally designated for Free Companies means that those Free Companies that are struggling to get the money for them are now out of luck, because the market mongers have have already bought them or will buy them up as soon as more become available. It's like, why not just have allowed this from the beginning then, if this was the final result of months of planning?

[StouterTaru]

Has anyone pointed out the irony of people on legacy servers saying that the houses were too expensive and that they sold out "10 minutes after server up"?

[Cynthis]

Last I check, at 97K population is certainly bigger than balmung. See:http://xivsoul.com/

It is actually the 5th most populated NA server, hardly count as tiny.

Thanks for the link. Since all the most populated servers are EU and then NA and the JP are relatively sparsely populated I expect the next announcement will be that new housing wards are added on JP servers only since clearly SE has no problem investing in infrastructure in JP compared to the rest of thew world. Obviously they couldn't care less about the lag and other issues the overcrowding is causing outside of JP.

[HumsterMKX]

Has anyone pointed out the irony of people on legacy servers saying that the houses were too expensive and that they sold out "10 minutes after server up"?

Because not everyone playing on a Legacy server is from 1.0?

Because not everyone playing on a Legacy server back in 1.0 are hoarding massive amount of gil?