The Housing Situation

[Fenral]

God, and i wanted to forget about the topic.

Then stop responding? You mean well, I think, but you can let the devs deliver their excuses themselves.

Having enough wards for everyone is an unattainable goal, especially on servers like Balmung or Gilgamesh. While there is no downside to the current system for people who already have houses, at some point they will need to find another solution. Ideally the current system will remain largely intact, with a few more wards added, but they will also implement some better-scaling alternative.

Whatever they decide to do will require resources and a certain amount of development time. Instanced housing, as seen in many other MMOs, is something we would like the developers to consider going forward, even if it was not considered before.

[Renik]

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The thing is, it's not an unattainable goal, if we are having a lack of wards, it's because the dev team was expecting a playerbase of 500k(this was said be Yoshi when the servers were having issues due to an unexpected amount of players), who would have a minimal interest on housing, the game launched with around 1.5m, so they had to upgrade the servers during the next months. Months later housing launched, the number of players raised to 2.5m, and they had to adjust the software to add more plots several times. The problem is they are providing housing with a server capacity for a playerbase not bigger than 2.5m players, but we are currently more than 4m, i know registered and active accounts are not the same, but an unsubed account can have a house, and to this we have to add FC houses.

We are not out of plots because it's hard to add more, it's because they have not upgraded the servers, i'm sure they are upgrading them for the expansion, and the EU datacenters (located in EU) will open soon, they will add several wards, and it will be done faster than making a new housing system.