Only 1536 apartments per server?

[Aillith]

I heard that the announcement may have been poorly translated and it was one apartment block per WARD instead of just per housing area.

Anyone else hear this?

[Kosmos992k]

I heard that the announcement may have been poorly translated and it was one apartment block per WARD instead of just per housing area.

Anyone else hear this?

there is a post or two in this topic saying that I think. to behonest it mmakes sense. the appartment blocks appear to be a special case free company house template that includes the same 512 chamber limit as FC personal chambers with a single location (similar to a large mansion) serving as the lobby. I suspect they have created what amount to 'ghost' free companies that exist purely to allow players to obtain an appartment. Given that they cost 500,000 gil, they will need to be larger than personal chambers.

But if you compare the functionality of the apartments to that of a Large FC mansion with the 512 member limit, the new apartment blocks function in exactly the sameway, which suggests that they are re-using part of the FC housing system to make this happen.