Please explain this difference. 90 <> 512

[aesteval]

I have a house of my own already and I can certainly get behind this sentiment.

Edit: Although, it won't be an issue on Mateus. More than half of the houses are available, we are the smallest server after all. I'm sure there will be plenty of apartments available to.

My only problem with it is that the preview basically says if you want a house and apartment to go for it - it's deliberately designed to allow for that.

That said I'll pass on alts owning.

Also, I may not be on a small server, but our housing is much slower to fill up than other servers which leads me to believe we don't have the crisis some servers have.

[PArcher]

There are advantages to being on one of the few high-pop servers; that's why they stay high-pop.

But, you also get drawbacks, and this is a big one.

So ask yourself, is having a house more important than the benefits of a high-pop server? If yes, then transfer off and go get a house if you can't get one when the servers open.

You can complain all you want about the "crisis", but don't forget that you are helping to make it worse

[Azper]

That said i have a house but i can't place anymore stuff in it. So, will i try to get an appartment ? Of course i will, why wouldn't i ?

This is true for me as well. I've pretty much hit the capacity on items for my small house. If they'd simply find a way to increase the amount of items allowed on and in existing properties, I wouldn't even need to consider getting an apartment. :-/

[Kosmos992k]

This is true for me as well. I've pretty much hit the capacity on items for my small house. If they'd simply find a way to increase the amount of items allowed on and in existing properties, I wouldn't even need to consider getting an apartment. :-/

I believe that Yoshi or one of the devs has said in a Live letter that they are working on increasing the number of items you can place in homes. Please look forward to it...

[Airget]

To the main topic, why 90 instead of 512. It's possible at first they considered having apartments as their own unique district apart from the main divison/sub-division of the current housing system(In the same manner personal housing and FC housing were suppose to be separate)

So there option might of been introduce 2 instances of 512 or place apartments into the current instances and make it 90.

So it would be 270X20=5400 compared to 3072 if they made apartments separate, and only two instances.

The other positive about the way they are introducing apartments as a 90/90 within each instance is that when they do add more housing it also adds more apartments.

In terms of infrastructure it makes more sense to have a system in place in which adding new housing instances adds for all housing concepts instead of making apartments separate from current housing and making it difficult to balance when and how to increase the quantity of the different housing options.

[Tint]

i think they just want to spread the apartment owners over all housing districts and increase the number of available apartments later.

would make sense, because otherwise in district 1 the house is full and in district 7 live only 10 people in the apartments.

[Cakekizyy]

This is true for me as well. I've pretty much hit the capacity on items for my small house. If they'd simply find a way to increase the amount of items allowed on and in existing properties, I wouldn't even need to consider getting an apartment. :-/

I remember EQ2 had items in cash shop to increase item limit for a house.

[CUTS3R]

I remember EQ2 had items in cash shop to increase item limit for a house.

Don't give them ideas now.

[Kosmos992k]

i think they just want to spread the apartment owners over all housing districts and increase the number of available apartments later.

would make sense, because otherwise in district 1 the house is full and in district 7 live only 10 people in the apartments.

That's a really good, plausible and sensible answer, thanks. Still would like to hear it from the horses mouth, but I think you may be on the right track here.

[StouterTaru]

I have worked in IT development for 3 decades, you don't cut functionality by 80% vs planned unless there is/was a significant issue.

My guess is it's a change in vision, instead of technical issues.

The original vision sounded like a separate ward, that functioned like the door to private chambers inside a FC house. Tiny zone, 512 people sharing one MB, one chocobo stable, and one summoning bell.

The new vision sounds like it's there to spread out people in the existing housing wards, making them a little more relevant.