Next addition to housing?

[Penthea]

Apartments are a half assed solution too. SE can't get this right and they've proven it over and over and over again.

Apartments would be okay if they weren't just basically more expensive fc rooms. I think I speak for a lot of players when I say I expected them to have some sort of balcony where you could garden and put a few outdoor decorations. But no, you fork out 200k extra for a chocobo stable and not needing to find a fc with a house. There isn't even a mailbox! Absolute rip-off.

I think SE need to change how their instancing works for the housing districts. I am inclined to think that they are so slow to add wards because the initial design of the instances wasn't intended to hold many. So I am hoping that they are working on this and maybe 4.0 is when we shall see the results.

[MiniOmegaDragon]

ok housing i don.t think its going to be in ishgard but that going to happening in 4.0

as for more plots i think it may happen with 3.5 maby .... we can only hope

[ckc22]

It won't matter. They'll all be bought up by rich alts on accounts that have like 5+ already. SE is too stupid to fix their housing system.

[Lesan]

Apartments would be okay if they weren't just basically more expensive fc rooms. I think I speak for a lot of players when I say I expected them to have some sort of balcony where you could garden and put a few outdoor decorations. But no, you fork out 200k extra for a chocobo stable and not needing to find a fc with a house. There isn't even a mailbox! Absolute rip-off.

I think SE need to change how their instancing works for the housing districts. I am inclined to think that they are so slow to add wards because the initial design of the instances wasn't intended to hold many. So I am hoping that they are working on this and maybe 4.0 is when we shall see the results.

In fact, initially, there was no personal housing, only FC housing. But people probably made 1-man FCs to dodge that, and still have a personal house.

[OliviaJ]

Sorry to semi-resurrect but I was thinking about the "new housing area" promised at next expansion. I'm willing to bet it's new apartments, instanced, or personal housing only. If it's in a new area locked behind an expansion, how could you possibly do a FC house there? People without the expansion would be locked out of it, correct? Just a thought.

[worldofneil]

If it's in a new area locked behind an expansion, how could you possibly do a FC house there?

They might just attach it to an existing area. Like if it's Ala Mhigo housing then it nught actually attached to Southern Thanalan and not a new area etc.

[OliviaJ]

They might just attach it to an existing area. Like if it's Ala Mhigo housing then it nught actually attached to Southern Thanalan and not a new area etc.

That would be smart and probable if they keep the same system. Smart thinking. What's your opinion about the idea that if it is locked in a new area, it would be personal housing only. Would that alleviate some of the hoarding in the original wards or would people still be creating 1-2 man FC's/still buying personals?

[worldofneil]

The more I think about it, the more I think it must be connected to something ARR players can get to, not just because of issues with FC people not having access like you pointed out, but also personal houses not being able to show it off to friends who don't have the expansion and that'll just cause annoyance.

History has shown us that SE likes to repurpose things (which I can understand it is more efficient use of their time) so I suspect we'll literally get 12 more wards and subdivisions at the new area, exactly the same design as we have now (but obviously a slightly different layout). So that'd be 24 wards and if it's 30 houses per ward like it is now, that'd be another 720 houses per server... doesn't sound so much now :S Maybe they'll increase the total wards overall, although I'm not holding out much hope of that...

From what I understand the reason they can't just keep expanding the existing wards are because each ward are a separate instance that always have to be running (like a normal zone) so with 72 instances per server and 64 servers, that's 4,608 zones constantly having to run. Although I think they're going to have the same issues with 4.0 (assuming they do it the same way), 24 new wards (12x2) over 64 servers is still another 1,536 zones/instances, but they likely have some budget in 4.0 for new hardware for just this.

[OliviaJ]

An upgrade to hardware would be appreciated. I hate seeing things take a bit to load and I'm guessing an upgrade would help that. Honestly I don't know enough about it to say. I think we are all also curious about the move function too.

[Caitlinzulu]

An upgrade to hardware would be appreciated. I hate seeing things take a bit to load and I'm guessing an upgrade would help that. Honestly I don't know enough about it to say. I think we are all also curious about the move function too.

Loading times have more to do with your own system then server load. Ever since I changed my ps4 harddisk with an SSD i load in, if not the fastest, very nearly the fastest into a new area.