So considering the size of the servers....

[Lii]

well If I remember right each server can hold up to 7000 or more characters.

then add in the additional characters added into the server by new players or existing players (increasing the demand to above 7000 or more) then adding in the factor that there is no limit to how many housing a player can buy there is still not enough land to provide for majority of the players in High/medium populated servers even if all players have the gil to buy housing.

A single character can only own 1 fc house and 1 personal house. So there is a limit.

[Felis]

Housing topic (sorry, hit wrong button)

Why can't we have 14 wards per district per server? I say 14 because ff14, though really I think we should have more.

Why do you want 14 if we can have 16? ^^

[Shneibel]

A single character can only own 1 fc house and 1 personal house. So there is a limit.

but each acc can have up to 8 character and each of character can have 1 FC house and 1 personal house, so a player can have up to...8 personal small house (lets say small house as they are cheap). You can expect there are ppl have more than 2 house on same acc.

SE should had make it 1 private house/acc and share between all character in same acc, this is the true limit

[Barboron]

So considering the size of the servers....

Please do tell, how big are the servers?

[Felis]

SE should had make it 1 private house/acc and share between all character in same acc, this is the true limit

On same server would be better than on same account.

[Lii]

but each acc can have up to 8 character and each of character can have 1 FC house and 1 personal house, so a player can have up to...8 personal small house (lets say small house as they are cheap). You can expect there are ppl have more than 2 house on same acc.

SE should had make it 1 private house/acc and share between all character in same acc, this is the true limit

That doesn't change what I said. The person I was replying to said there was no limit but there is a limit currently. You just feel its too big. Current limit is 40 characters per account, so 40 personal houses and 40 fc houses.

[Shneibel]

On same server would be better than on same account.

either way is fine, the point is keep it 1 personal house and 1 FC house per player and stop them from get many house

[ariaandkia]

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.

[Barboron]

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.

You can't just pull numbers out of nowhere and expect it to be considered a reasonable argument.

[ariaandkia]

You can't just pull numbers out of nowhere and expect it to be considered a reasonable argument.

I'm basing it off of the players that I've seen doing end game content (anything past 50 in this case) on my server as well as information provided during the latest patch.

My point was more of that out of the players I've seen, it is likely only a fraction of the total player base that can get houses, but out of all the players, there are only so many that really want houses.

Again, the numbers I'm using are purely based on personal observation based on factors like party finder, players in FCs with houses, people that are on during random player searches, etc.

I am not counting anyone who is an obvious bot or who is low level+new adventurer in this thought process.

And that we really need a lot more housing to accommodate everyone.