I definitely agree on the thought process of making it so that each account can only get one house per server.

As for how many players are on... At any given time, you can have as many as 100 active players on a hunt from personal experience, then looking at my linkshells and fc, I can see likely over a thousand unique players all reasonably high level, many of which are on daily.

That being said, very likely we do have about 2000-4000 players per server that are somewhat active and reasonably high level. Out of that, we can assume about half of them want houses.

That means that to reasonably expect to provide enough housing for everyone that wants a house, we'd likely need about 1000-2000 houses. This is assuming a reasonably small server like Famfrit.

On a larger server with more people, we'd likely need to double that number or even triple it so indeed, even doubling the size of the wards and doubling the number of wards won't be a perfect solution. Really, we'd need about 30 to 50 double sized wards to reasonably expect to accommodate everyone.

Of course, this won't guarantee that everyone will get a large house unless they were to make the expansion of the housing area include more large houses.

I see that SE is saying that they plan to double the size of the wards so I'm assuming that my initial assumption is correct that they are planning to increase the ward sizes themselves rather than increasing the number of wards.

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So here are my proposed thoughts:

1) Increase the number of wards.

2) Increase the percentage of large/medium houses. Instead of 10% (3 per 30), 20% (6 per 30) large houses would make it so that more people can acquire a large house, which is likely the goal of many players. Right now, medium is about 23% (7 per 30). If we could bump that up to about 40% (12 per 30), that would allow more people to get at least a medium house. With that said, if they double the ward sizes, I'd like to see somewhere around 12 Large, 24 Medium, and 24 Small per ward.

3) Set a limit of 1 FC house and 1 Player house per account per server.

4) Add housing in the Mor Dhona/Coerthas area.

5) upgrade-able houses. If we could slightly rearrange the plots so that we could actually expand on the plots, we could potentially have it so everyone starts with a small house and then slowly work their way up to a large house through expansions and upgrades.

These would make housing more available to player and provide players with more chances to get larger housing which are severely limited at this time.