Hurray! Finally saved up 6mil for my personal house!

[MageBlack]

I was just under the false impression, probably from my own desires for the content, that Personal housing would have been totally separate from FC housing, not shared. I just hope that we can either double the current amount of housing, get instanced personal homes, or a free server transfer when they add the EU servers. I'll happily move but I will need to move at bare minimum 4 accounts personally and I don't really want to pay (My account and 2 kids and wife's accounts) that or try to convince the rest of the FC to move on their dime. until then I will suffer and continue to accept the choice I made not to fork out $80 - $400 to transfer everyone.

[Tam_Hawkins]

I was just under the false impression, probably from my own desires for the content, that Personal housing would have been totally separate from FC housing, not shared.

Not a false Impression, that's what they said until the housing patch came.

[Welsper59]

I was just under the false impression, probably from my own desires for the content, that Personal housing would have been totally separate from FC housing, not shared. I just hope that we can either double the current amount of housing, get instanced personal homes, or a free server transfer when they add the EU servers. I'll happily move but I will need to move at bare minimum 4 accounts personally and I don't really want to pay (My account and 2 kids and wife's accounts) that or try to convince the rest of the FC to move on their dime. until then I will suffer and continue to accept the choice I made not to fork out $80 - $400 to transfer everyone.

You're completely justified to have assumed what you did, but it was still just an assumption lol. In an ideal situation, it really shouldn't come down to the better option being to move multiple accounts, but that's just dependent on how important the matter is to you. Personally, I'd just say to tough it out where you are to save on costs (since moving for housing wouldn't be worth the price IMO). Eventually, either the wards will free up here and there or the devs will add more. They have to, it's just that it may not happen until 2.55 or after expansion (don't expect it to be on expansion release, due to the new content). Heck, they may even open up a housing ward in Ishgard in the future lol.

Not a false Impression, that's what they said until the housing patch came.

I'm pretty sure they didn't say anything about personal housing getting its own wards. If I remember right, all they said was that they would be adding wards in light of personal housing (does not mean they're exclusively for that purpose nor that they are to cater every player). Along with the mention that costs would be separate, which they weren't and can definitely be caught as a lie on that one, since there was no follow up comment on such a change. As someone that plays the economic game often, it comes as no surprise, but still a little deceitful to not remember/care to update on the matter since the raise in economic values hadn't changed for months by the time the patch released.

[MageBlack]

You're completely justified to have assumed what you did, but it was still just an assumption lol. In an ideal situation, it really shouldn't come down to the better option being to move multiple accounts, but that's just dependent on how important the matter is to you. Personally, I'd just say to tough it out where you are to save on costs (since moving for housing wouldn't be worth the price IMO). Eventually, either the wards will free up here and there or the devs will add more. They have to, it's just that it may not happen until 2.55 or after expansion (don't expect it to be on expansion release, due to the new content). Heck, they may even open up a housing ward in Ishgard in the future lol.

For sure! I'm not moving all of us because There would also be the matter of trying to move the gil when there is a 1mil gil limit for transfer, It wont work to transfer the 15+mil our FC has saved up along with the 8+mil I now have let alone what everyone else has in their pockets. It's just not feasible to move us all, not at this point. I'm pretty sure we wont see new wards until, the earliest, 3.0 release or maybe 3.1. We wont see anything more come for wards before then. As for Ishgard, they said there wont be housing for there, "at least not at first", so I think it will be like Mor Dhona and evolve over the course of the expansion and maybe near the end we will have a new place to call home. It will happen, its just a matter of time and I can be patient.

[Teryaani]

I'm pretty sure they didn't say anything about personal housing getting its own wards. If I remember right, all they said was that they would be adding wards in light of personal housing (does not mean they're exclusively for that purpose nor that they are to cater every player).

SE didn't handle player expectations well on this feature ("While I cannot give a specific date on when personal housing will be implemented, I can say that prices will be completely separate from free company housing, and, naturally, far more affordable.").

I've got a lot of good things to say about SE's development and communications people , just not on this subject.

[Aeyis]

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In your case, it doesn't make sense, however there are so many cases where that is the case. People move to Balmung or constantly complain to open it and then they come back and complain about something like housing.
With that being said, sorry that your server became a crowded monster.

Said it better then I did.

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That would of solved a lot of issues with housing I can imagine. Altho I'm personally of the opinion that FC housing should be available to all (autogenerating, imo with plotsize actually changing depending on how much you are willing to invest) with personal housing similar to now; but their own wards that don't have FC owned houses.
On top of that I feel that the amount of wards should really be dependant on the server population. Sure, higher prices makes sense; but not also have more wards available?

While I'd like to see numbers of wards be server related (same for low pop, a lot more for higher pop); I do still feel that personal houses should be luxury tho.(in price/total availability)
Altho we'll probably disagree with that one since im more of a black knight then a white knight :P

[MageBlack]

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What you said makes sense i guess. I have no problem with Personal Housing costingmillions or billions of gil, in the end it can be attainable if you work hard enough. But if you have the gil and there are no houses available then it's not a luxury, it's how hardcore are you when we were told this is casual content. Casual people don't always have the funds right away or are willing to log in at 3am just to buy the house.

I do agree with the high pop vs low pop for ward avaliability, but that would have to be adjustable over time. Where as instanced personal houses would be on a "per use" basis. build the server with X capacity, when it gets 90% full, add another server. Less wasted resources this way?