Ishgard Housing Transfer System Unfair

[Nyonmyan]

D: And here I thought cool stuff was for those who logged on within 10 minutes of the servers going up after they added new housing wards...

Free plots were available for months after they were added.

[Nadirah]

Free plots were available for months after they were added.

Not on higher pop servers.

[Nyonmyan]

Not on higher pop servers.

You mean Balmung? Was it 10 minutes before all plots were sold?

[Arixtotle]

That's a thought actually, add two housing areas, one for Foundation and one for Pillars.

60 houses in 8 wards is 480 houses. If they were to add two areas that would create 960 new plots. A drop in the bucket, but definitely a good touch assuming they don't let people own more than one house.

They NEED to make a Hinterlands ward with Sharlayan architecture. I want so bad. T.T

[Anapingofness]

I rather like the transfer idea.
I hope that people transferring don't have to rebuy the plot+transfer fee as some suggest because then what would be the point?

[Diana_Pepper]

Does the FC Leader have the ability to own personal and FC house? Does it affect FC members also?

[Gunspec]

I rather like the transfer idea.
I hope that people transferring don't have to rebuy the plot+transfer fee as some suggest because then what would be the point?

The point is that the FC has an alternative to destroying their old house with all FC member personal rooms, workshop progress, and airships lost in the move. Forcing them to buy the plot requires them to put forth the same effort as anyone that wants a new or better location, which is fair. Requiring the FC to ALSO destroy 60 million gil worth of personal rooms AND all irremovable furnishings, as well as losing their max rank airships (parts can be transfered, not airship rank) is just brutal, hence the need to add transfers.

[Yshnal]

Does the FC Leader have the ability to own personal and FC house? Does it affect FC members also?

Yes, you can have both no matter your rank on the FC.

[Noxifer]

Free plots were available for months after they were added.

I was mostly thinking about the small plots. For sure, medium plots were available for a little while longer, and large plots even longer than that, but the small plots were pretty much gone within 10 or so minutes -- depending on world, of course.

[Snugglebutt]

In any case, it's not like you can own two houses. If I transfer my house from Goblet to Ishgard, then there's a house open in Goblet. Someone that didn't have a house before can get my old one. I don't see why there should be some kind of lockout for those that already have housing.

That's not true you can own as many houses as you want if simply make alt characters. Many people already do such. Personally I think biggest problem is if SE allows current home owners first dibs on new housing via opening up transfers before allowing non-home owners the ability to buy but I also think SE should stop allowing multiple homes being owned by single person via alts due to the extreme housing shortage which only less than 2% of the entire subscriber base can use and less than 1% of the subscriber base actually own due to players with multiple characters owning the pre-existing stock. On my server there is zero houses in any wards or zones and I know of many people who own multiple houses on their alts which also include some people I know who are leaders of multiple FC's on their alt characters so have access and control the rewards of multiple FC workshops.