Land Needs Are Unmet on Balmung

[Eeek]

Surely, someone will complain about the high costs of a server transfer and deem it totally unreasonable. If the cons outweight the pros, then by all means, stay on larger worlds like Balmung. But I've watched as other players and friends leave behind their friends/linkshells/free companies to transfer to larger worlds. They left to seek the kind of environments that made them happy, whether it be RPing, raiding, or an active PF scene. I, along with many people I know, don't begrudge those that left. We supported their decisions because we want our friends to be happy. But ... residents of larger worlds: don't you dare assume that you deserve special treatment over these players who transferred or the friends they left behind.

There's a high price to pay to live in the world's largest cities. I believe it's best that you come to accept it.

Or transfer to a world like mine.

[Riepah]

I disagree with most posters in this thread. Balmung, along with the rest of the largest worlds, does not need or deserve any special housing concessions. Instead, it's best to think of the largest worlds like the real world's largest cities. There are no special concessions for the residents of New York City, or Tokyo, or London, or Singapore, and so on. To live in the world's most bustling cities is to comes to terms with and accept the high cost of living.

I'm not saying that Balmung should get more wards than other servers, but... you don't expect the city of New York to be restricted to the same amount of houses as, say, the city of Vienna. So if you think of the largest worlds as the real world's largest cities, you're actually saying they SHOULD have more buildings. How you thought that was a good comparison is truly beyond me.

[Zelas]

There's a high price to pay to live in the world's largest cities. I believe it's best that you come to accept it.

Or transfer to a world like mine.

Keep your real world ideas out of my games.

We all pay the same monthly fee. We should all be allowed the same access to content regardless of the world we play on.

Thank you very much.

[ClaireAbigail]

Keep your real world ideas out of my games.

We all pay the same monthly fee. We should all be allowed the same access to content regardless of the world we play on.

Thank you very much.

That argument can be used against you, just saying. Why should your server get special treatment if we all pay the same subscription fee?

Every server should have pros and cons. If you transfer to X server then you'll get this but you won't get that. If you transfer to Y server then you'll get that but you won't get this.

[Zelas]

That argument can be used against you, just saying. Why should your server get special treatment if we all pay the same subscription fee?

Every server should have pros and cons. If you transfer to X server then you'll get this but you won't get that. If you transfer to Y server then you'll get that but you won't get this.

Argument still invalid. You lose nothing if Balmung gets more houses. And that's assuming SE gives priority to large population world, which they probably wouldn't. (They would just add wards to all worlds at once)

I don't see why I should leave the friends I've made in the past two years and be penalized for having chosen Balmung as my server when 2.0 released. I could never have known it'd grow into the server it is now.

Moreover, you need to stop taking it out on the people of more populated server. We're all playing the same game, here, and no one is entitled to populate your server. They can play wherever the hell they want, and you certainly don't have any right to make them feel like shit for it.

[ClaireAbigail]

Take a chill pill or something sweetie. I'm just asking why should SE give a certain server special treatment? You didn't answer that question love. I'm not asking anyone to populate my server I know what comes with having a low population server and I'm fine with that. My question to you is, why should your server get special treatment compared to others? I would be fine with an increase in ALL servers but increasing housing wards in just one server...well that's not fair regardless of population.

Oh...and even housing wards are running out here so trust me I'm not against it even if I own a house already.

[Zelas]

I'm not even sure where in this thread's OP was it asked for Balmung to be the only one to get more houses. :/ How is it asking for special treatment to ask for something we don't have anymore of, if everyone gets it too? OP simply pointed out Balmung has been out of houses for a while now, and immediately, low population worlds players start flooding the thread asking us to move to low population worlds instead.

[Verdan]

Housing shouldn't be limited. If they have the capacity to add districts at any time without impacting stability, then they should procedurally add districts when needed so housing land does not become a limited resource. Having an entire system completely closed off to players is, quite frankly, a waste of those development resources. Again, not because they do not want to put in the time to make money or to go though the process, but because they are hard locked out of it. This is incredibly detrimental to the player experience, and should not be something anyone has to work around. This is not that kind of game.

[tocsin]

Housing shouldn't be limited. If they have the capacity to add districts at any time without impacting stability, then they should procedurally add districts when needed so housing land does not become a limited resource. Having an entire system completely closed off to players is, quite frankly, a waste of those development resources. Again, not because they do not want to put in the time to make money or to go though the process, but because they are hard locked out of it. This is incredibly detrimental to the player experience, and should not be something anyone has to work around. This is not that kind of game.

that is the issue. They have already stated that they cant. Hell, they had to do a major server upgrade just to support the subdivisions we have now.

Load balancing is a real issue. Housing looks like one of the "Carrots" to help let players solve their own problems.

Personally, I would prefer the "stick". just permanently close balmung and other full servers completely and indefinitely until the population drops below a certain amount. No new characters. At all.

low population worlds players start flooding the thread asking us to move to low population worlds instead.

That is fairly true, mainly because while blaming has too many people and is constantly complaining about not getting special treatment for it, we lower population worlds have to deal with the opposite effects. having a harder time getting coil runs together, longer PF times, inflated marketboards. we aren't complaining to get special treatment, though. balmung is.

P.S. my autocorrect just changed balmung to Blaming. lol, too much significance there....

[Gillionaire]

Argument still invalid. You lose nothing if Balmung gets more houses

Yeah, and let's give everybody on Jenova a free Zeta weapon. It doesn't affect other servers at all. While we're at it, I also wouldn't mind a 400% exp boost so newer servers like mine can catch up to legacy servers.