Only 1536 apartments per server?

[Centershock]

Actually, no, you are at fault.

You choose to play on the highest population server there is. You KNOW the housing situation is like this. Yes, SE doesn't handle housing well, and I'm not defending that, but you KNOW this. And yet, this is what you choose. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the mass exodus to Bal and Greg isn't healthy, but people still feed it instead of fixing it.

There are servers that STILL have housing. And they would love to have active people who raid come play on them. Everyone's got problems. Deal with it.

I *CHOSE* to play on a highly populated server, therefore it's MY FAULT that we have NO HOUSING. Yeah, no. But please, continue to live in your own delusion as to what the actual problem is. Because really, if SE actually blamed the players for this ISSUE, we'd actually still be playing this game.

Sorry, I am not falling for your white-knighting tactics for SE implementing this piss-poor housing system nor am I taking fault. You can blame me all you like and you can point fingers at us, but I have been here since 2.0 and we actually had character creation open back then. I cannot be the psychic that you want me to be and predict that in the next several months, or even few years, that this server is going to be "over-populated."

[Teryaani]

SO why have they not made player housing instanced? They knew the failed pre 3.0, they know they are still going to fail going forward into 4.0. Do they not know how to let go a bad idea and move on. The wards are bad idea on a game that doesn't regulate population. Why keep embracing a failure.

My theory on this, and it's baseless, is that they tried in 2.x, it wasn't going to be ready in time or had serious bugs, and felt that they had to do something related to housing. They shoved out the awful system we have and were surprised when even the JP forums detonated over it (that part is not baseless. They legit seemed surprised by the reaction). Once they had put it in though, there were no take-backs without an even larger expenditure of effort.

I can't speak for everyone, but reactions on forums are any indication. If they said the wards would be demolished and houses transferred to instances starting in 4.0. With an entrance in each city and vendors near entrance, would be better received then the current system.

I think you're completely correct.

[Stormrider]

yeh like the people who wanted that unused houses are being demolished after 2 months :P and then coming on the forums and crying coz theyre hard earned gil is gone after a 5 month break :P

I just mean the wards are gone not the houses. Since they are trying to build a transfer system for houses to go with ishgard. Meaning no more ward but house in a nice shiny instance. Wards are quiet on Balmung feels like half the server afks in Idylshire anyways. Unless they put tomestone and scrip vendors in wards no reason for them to stay.

[LaylaTsarra]

yeh like the people who wanted that unused houses are being demolished after 2 months :P and then coming on the forums and crying coz theyre hard earned gil is gone after a 5 month break :P

That's another debate and personally I'm in the camp if they're paying their sub they shouldn't lose anything. Relative to over populated servers I think it's time that SE stopped allowing transfers to overpopulated servers period.

[Ametrine]

The first house that I've seen open in Lamia in 2 months did so the other day. My FC leader jumped on that. We have a house now. but I'm poor now.


I should point out that over 2/3rds of the homes on Lamia are owned by individuals verses free companies. That's even fewer players getting access to stables and gardens as you'd need to room with a player that has a house...

[Colino]

I want to have the option to buy the whole building and stick my name on it. Then run for president.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Just one apartment building per housing area is a really silly idea!...

I'm pretty sure it's one building per ward, that's 24 buildings per housing area, you'll see!...

Uh... that would amount to 36,768 apartments, which is more than Gilgamesh and Balmung's populations combined.

[OliviaJ]

SO why have they not made player housing instanced? They knew the failed pre 3.0, they know they are still going to fail going forward into 4.0. Do they not know how to let go a bad idea and move on. The wards are bad idea on a game that doesn't regulate population. Why keep embracing a failure.

I can't speak for everyone, but reactions on forums are any indication. If they said the wards would be demolished and houses transferred to instances starting in 4.0. With an entrance in each city and vendors near entrance, would be better received then the current system.

No no no. Do not want instanced housing. This is where the people on smaller servers get as offended as those on the busy servers when they are told to stop complaining about housing.

In my opinion we could meet in the middle on this. Future housing (Ishgard possibly) could be instanced but leave the older system alone. It's not fair to take away a feature that many of us enjoy, including those on the busy servers that have houses just to please some players. That's as far as I'm going with that because I don't want to offend anyone with what's already been suggested.

I'm hoping the apartment thing is a hit. It looks pretty cool honestly. Seriously doubt it's limited to that smaller number like others have said. It just wouldn't make sense. If FC rooms can be as plentiful as they are there is no reason that the apartments can't be.

[Xiomara]

Uh... that would amount to 36,768 apartments, which is more than Gilgamesh and Balmung's populations combined.

If that's the true number, then it certainly covers their ass for future growth on all servers.

[Ametrine]

If that's the true number, then it certainly covers their ass for future growth on all servers.

It would also excuse players having more than one room or house.