Land Needs Are Unmet on Balmung

[Verdan]

so even if they add more wards, it's going to be bought out in seconds of the servers coming back up, and you're just going to make another thread like this one complaining the server needs more wards. If you dont have a superior connection, a fast system, and at least 30 million gil on hand, you might as well forget buying a house on balmung.

That's why you need to auto generate districts. Bottled demand means that things are gonna go very quickly, so they need to add them until things settle down. This is the fairest scenario and the one that makes the most gameplay sense.
And yeah, I'd very much make another thread, probably titled "Land Needs Still Unmet on Balmung" if they added like 3 total districts and they were all snapped up in a matter of seconds. Because the land needs would still be unmet on Balmung.

[polyphonica]

That's why you need to auto generate districts. Bottled demand means that things are gonna go very quickly, so they need to add them until things settle down. This is the fairest scenario and the one that makes the most gameplay sense.

Well, just for clarity's sake, it's not like, on the same servers they have now, they can just crank up unlimited subdivisions now at no performance cost. It's just that they came up with a more efficient way to add/handle capacity internally. Adding more subdivisions or wards would still mean adding more servers. They said in the past that they'd be willing to do that to meet demand, but right now I think they're focusing more on the expansion and free company crafting. Adding more capacity would follow logically after that.

I think the biggest issue is the fact that all the servers appear to be exact replicas of each other, creating a big disparity between the busy servers and the lighter ones. I don't know if it must be that way or not, but if so, it would probably make sense to offer emigration incentives.

[tocsin]

it would probably make sense to offer emigration incentives.

What do you think housing is?

All players that own a house should have their subscription cost increased. All players that do not should have their subscription cost reduced.

I am tired of subsidizing the development of features available exclusively to a bunch of whiny, entitled brats.

I'm on board with this. I would gladly pay per month to have access to a house, just like I pay per month for retainers. Support the game more, get more benefits. sounds reasonable!

[Intaki]

What do you think housing is?

A broken system which gets continued development out of the pocket of players who have never and likely will never benefit from it.

And again, if housing is to be considered just fine as is, why not limit things in other sectors of the game in the same way? Only a certain number of Artisan/Forager equipment can be purchased, only a certain number of drops from raids per server; once they're gone, they're gone!

[tocsin]

A broken system which gets continued development out of the pocket of players who have never and likely will never benefit from it.

And again, if housing is to be considered just fine as is, why not limit things in other sectors of the game in the same way? Only a certain number of Artisan/Forager equipment can be purchased, only a certain number of drops from raids per server; once they're gone, they're gone!

Actually, I would be pretty cool with that, IF they implemented a system of non-consensual transfer. Make the artisan gear like WWE Belts. You can challenge the wearer of the equipment to a "crafting competition", and whoever gets the best HQ goods, gets the gear. Raiding gear, transfer through dps skill checks (battle square anyone?). Housing through design competitions. whoever can actually design the best house, gets housing.

[Verdan]

Dude do you have any ideas that AREN'T like shockingly terrible?

I think the biggest issue is the fact that all the servers appear to be exact replicas of each other, creating a big disparity between the busy servers and the lighter ones. I don't know if it must be that way or not, but if so, it would probably make sense to offer emigration incentives.

I don't know much about their server architecture, but that does seem to have a ton to do with how limited the housing is. I suppose the best hope for us all is that as Heavensward goes forward they settle this stuff out. They're talkin' about 4 million players, but the housing would fit in with a small game with maybe a couple thousand, where a hard limit would be doable. Limits are creating horrifying economic situations and bottled demand now, even with the high prices they got a million complaints about when it was rolled out.

[Aeyis]

Dude do you have any ideas that AREN'T like shockingly terrible?

Then give him better ideas he can improve upon. In case you failed to notice his ideas are direct improvements of the ideas you guys suggest yourselves...lol.