How to Fix Housing Without Everyone Freaking Out

[Anova]

This is true but don't forget that much of this money will be sitting on inactive accounts that very well may never return to the game. On top of that, the person purchasing the house next time would be removing that money from the economy and the next person will only receive 80% of that.

Perhaps they won't use it and it just disappears in to the aether. It's hard to say, but most players tend to come back for a little while following every patch. There's more than a few owners who have developed a life outside of the game since they bought the house, realized the house maintenance costs way more time and gil than they expected, or find that their members aren't really interested in the house except as a trophy and accomplishment.

I noticed on my server that people saving up money to buy a house usually means they're not spending that much on the market. This happens a lot as the marketboards tend to drop with surplus supply and low demand when new housing lots are available.

Maybe it's different for other servers, but it's hard to predict how the game market will react to something as big as new housing lots, new ways to gain i210 loot, and partial gil refunds on houses. The income of sold houses might buoy the depressed market of players saving up to buy houses, or it might overwhelm and send prices skyrocketing. We need solid numbers on spending during housing shortages and housing releases to even guess at what might happen and what's a safe amount of money to release at once.

I don't understand why instanced housing was never a thing.

I also expected personal housing to be it's own slot, not mingled with the FC houses. But the FC houses were made to be social and status symbols and as a way for FCs to interact with each other. They still are, especially for the earliest adopters. There's quite a few friendships between house owners and friendly/bitter rivalries. We got in to a virtual war with another FC by pointing cannons at each other early on. Made for a lot of interesting SV runs and friendly banter.

[KineticSoul]

I also expected personal housing to be it's own slot, not mingled with the FC houses. But the FC houses were made to be social and status symbols and as a way for FCs to interact with each other. They still are, especially for the earliest adopters. There's quite a few friendships between house owners and friendly/bitter rivalries. We got in to a virtual war with another FC by pointing cannons at each other early on. Made for a lot of interesting SV runs and friendly banter.

Hahah, that sounds pretty interesting! I love that! I think that's the kind of thing Yoshi-P wanted, entirely. I remember early on reading about how he wanted the housing sectors to be more like little communities and this definitely epitomizes that. I think it's great. Still, the current system is definitely not very inviting, especially for newer players. Surely some middle ground can be found.