Ishgard Housing Transfer System Unfair

[Anapingofness]

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.

You seem to misunderstand. I agree with the idea of a transfer.
However, I disagree with the idea that players(and FCs) who transfer should have to pay for a new plot+transfer fee.
Previous owners already put forth that same effort as a new person(or FC) buying a house, granted they did it earlier than Ishgardian housing. That is the only difference between the two groups.

[Noxifer]

Which server are you talking about? Small plots were available on Phoenix for months and it's medium to high pop.

That depended a lot on which city-state you wanted to live in =) Goblet was the one that was open the longest. IIRC, Mist was gone very quickly once they opened up housing for individuals, and Lavender Beds filled up fairly quickly, too.

But I'll admit the 10 minutes or so was a slight hyperbole; it was mainly a reflection back on that time when they added one ward to each area, instead of all them sub-divisions that basically doubled the number of plots/wards. I still remember the raging from back then ^^

[Seraphyna]

With the amount of un-recoverable furnishings that many people have in their houses, I think it's only fair that some kind of transfer system be put into place for those of us that already have housing in one of the existing wards.

Which is one of the most ridiculous, stupid systems they could have come up with.

We cannot even upgrade houses without losing a ton of items. (When are we getting the option to remove these items without them being destroyed? Hmm? Maybe then I'll sell my personal house that I never use).

We cannot move houses without losing our airships (I mean really who's dumb idea was it to tie these to the workshop and not the FC?????).

It could be such a better system but it seems no resources are going into it.

[Kosmos992k]

We cannot move houses without losing our airships (I mean really who's dumb idea was it to tie these to the workshop and not the FC?????).

It could be such a better system but it seems no resources are going into it.

If a company chooses to relocate it's headquarters IRL, many things are lost and the costs can be tremendous. The workshop is under ground, under the FC house. Logically if you sell that house, you would fill in the secret basement workshopto prevent anyone from making use of your super secret stuff, you'd then start over in a new location, building a new secret basement lab.

I'm not sure that this system is really as stupid as you thingit is.

[Nadirah]

You seem to misunderstand. I agree with the idea of a transfer.
However, I disagree with the idea that players(and FCs) who transfer should have to pay for a new plot+transfer fee.
Previous owners already put forth that same effort as a new person(or FC) buying a house, granted they did it earlier than Ishgardian housing. That is the only difference between the two groups.

Good way to suck gil out of the game rather than give it to another player.

You want to move, you buy the place and move.

[Boxworm]

The way I see it, as soon as an Ishgard housing area is announced, people would start selling off their current plots for insane sums of gil. Since we're already so starved for housing plots, people would buy. If we have the ability to transfer to Ishgard, presumably the previous plot will be surrendered. That way it will be open for anyone to buy, at the original plot starting price. That beats the hell out of paying someone millions of gil to surrender the plot, then more millions of gil to buy it and build it.

[Eekiki]

The real mistake was allowing personal housing and free company housing to be jumbled together.

[MageBlack]

I sure hope they double the existing plots before they implement Ishgardian housing. Just adding 1/3 more housing will not solve the housing problems....

[SendohJin]

I sure hope they double the existing plots before they implement Ishgardian housing. Just adding 1/3 more housing will not solve the housing problems....

those aren't mutually exclusive what a silly thing to hope for.

[MageBlack]

those aren't mutually exclusive what a silly thing to hope for.

Ya, a real silly to want to no longer be locked out of more and more content behind a wall of first come first served.