New housing wards for populated servers?

[Snootles]

I wonder what would happen if SE would try to entice people to move to less populated worlds instead. Like have a ´free´ transfer for the highly super populated servers.

[Bluevann]

Yoshi already addressed this by saying that the housing team was working on the gold saucer and when they go back to housing instead of just adding more wards their task is going to be increasing what you can actually do with housing. More wards will be upcoming but they want to expand the housing system itself first.

They also said that they're monitoring the situation for each server and will work on adding wards as they see fit, so why not hope?

[Risvertasashi]

They also said that they're monitoring the situation for each server and will work on adding wards as they see fit, so why not hope?

Your sig says it all, really. Housing is a feature for the veterans and elite; it seems they're content for it to remain this way.

[Icehunter]

Your sig says it all, really. Housing is a feature for the veterans and elite; it seems they're content for it to remain this way.

Love that quote. Far more affordable? Since when? FC/Private is same price everywhere.

The moment I did save up the money for a small they were all gone. Started working on medium and now all gone except Goblet. I assume if I got enough for the large in Lavender Beds I wanted it would be all gone and they would come out with 120mil Extra Large.

[Risvertasashi]

Love that quote. Far more affordable? Since when? FC/Private is same price everywhere.

The moment I did save up the money for a small they were all gone. Started working on medium and now all gone except Goblet. I assume if I got enough for the large in Lavender Beds I wanted it would be all gone and they would come out with 120mil Extra Large.

No, they've said there will be little if any additions for a long time coming. If you were able to afford one when they came out, and quick enough to buy one before they were all gone...

But no new players, new FCs, nor those that simply did not have the money and/or reflexes at the time it was added will be able to participate in the housing systems... except by joining an FC that already has one.

[Gramul]

The ward system was a cool idea, but if the servers aren't capable of giving us the space we need, why did they bother to make it this way?
The limitation dampers it's usefulness for the majority of the players.

[Kaes]

I agree with the need for more housing plots.

However, technically this is not accurate:

there are a small handful of Large size houses left

I'm on Excalibur and I can confirm that The Mist is completely sold out - even the large ones have all been purchased.

Meanwhile in capitalist lala land Eorzea's ghetto, The Goblet, numerous medium plots remain available for purchase. You'll occasionally see one abandoned in the Lavender Beds too. No small plots remain anywhere, but occasionally someone in Party Finder will offer to relinquish one for a fee.

It's almost as if everyone and their chocobo only wants to live in Limsa. Indeed, the visual designer of the Goblet foresaw this problem and tried to make it more appealing with windmills and water features, but I guess this wasn't enough. would add a quote with his name but the artbook isn't with me at the moment

[JayCommon]

To be honest....I'm not sure what server they're looking at when they decided on this.

Goblin.

/10char

[ExKage]

It would be very nice if they could start allocating wards on a per need basis. Every plot taken in the world? Open 1 more ward, etc.

[Icehunter]

It would be very nice if they could start allocating wards on a per need basis. Every plot taken in the world? Open 1 more ward, etc.

That requires dynamic scaling and if they can't handle cross-world friends lists or cross-world partying (like GW2) I would not expect dynamic wards. In reality they should have dynamic scaling on most things which would at least provide varying server costs if they cloud hosted the servers with load balancers.