Please fix or remove housing!

[Evol]

Hey Evol! I don't mean to sound douchy but I recently got a house on Sargatanas. Small but still a house, I'm fairly new, about two months old and definitely could not afford the outrageous party finder demands of 12mil for homes.
It took me about four days to get one after starting. I just logged in every couple hours and finally found one in the mist. I saw three small goblit homes spawn as well, as well as two mediums.

Hi Hyro

You don't sound like a douche at all dont worry. I welcome the feedback!

Yea there are opportunities to get houses, I don't mean to say that there are never any opportunities. Those opportunities are slim though, and hard to come by. It solves an issue for 1 out of thousands.

I see a lot of FCs, many without houses even though they are rank 6, and have the gil for one. I feel that the content that comes with an FC house far outweighs the content that comes for a player who owns one personally - since you can have a private chamber or an apartment.

Joining another FC doesn't solve that issue, because 9/10 the features are locked to players who already established themselves - or have control - within said FC.

I got very tired of teleporting to every main city, checking both tabs of each ward, hour after hour, just to not see any plots available. I've done this for far longer than just a couple days. Though I admit not so much recently.

I've finally given up and started flipping money to save for a medium - for when they add plots in Stormblood out in Ivalice - though as soon as I did; Someone in my FC left the server to play with a friend they new in real life on another server - and their house became available. Another was gonna just simply give his up to us and was even waiting for us to get the gil ready to repurchase it after he destroyed it, but decided to keep it or donate it elsewhere - which is totally fine.

A friend of mine told me they managed to get a plot just yesterday, but then again in the last few days there has been a lot of server transferring going on. I'll have to keep my eyes open as I could get lucky :P I'll probably be waiting till Stormblood, though.

And I even plan to be up for the expansion, after I purchase my physical CE, and will race on my ninja for the first medium or large plaque I see.... but as you may know the struggle is reals! I just want to see this system get tweaked and tuned so that its fair and fun for everyone - including those who didn't get lucky enough to find an open plot.

We all have the same CHANCE, when the plots are released...and the ones that get it certainly wont be disappointed. But I care about everybody. I want us all to have fun, whether your idea of fun is running an FC, raiding, crafting, gathering, gardening, or even decorating.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

Please do not go into stormblood, adding yet more wards where the exact same thing will happen. And please do not open stormblood allowing existing plot holders to transfer and get first dibs on new plots - that is, if you do happen to disregard the millions of your paying subscribers requesting that you fix this.

I don't understand your thinking here, you go on about it not being fair locking people out of features yet you think it is fair removing the opportunity of FC's getting a larger house. This still gives other players the opportunity to claim a house from the older wards.

Now if we are going for unfair suggestions then I suggest that people who have a small house should get first dibs on a medium or large house to upgrade, as why should you be able to go straight for a medium/large.

Yes housing is a problem but on Ragnarok we are a decent sized server and I have no trouble finding houses. This week alone I have found four houses on the aertherites for friends, start checking them when servers are quiet for me they always come available between 11pm and 11am. Hell I managed to get my personal house and FC house in the space of a day through reclamation.

[ErikMynhier]

That's exactly how I read it too. OP, for a minute I thought you might be on Balmung. Is your server overpopulated or have you just not tried hard enough? I'm still seeing open lots just about every night on my server.

OMG I was expecting Balmung too. 100% honest.

[dspguy]

Seems like SE's solution would be one house per account. Or maybe one per account per server. In case there really are that many people hoarding plots.

[Niraves]

I own three houses between this character and my two alts, and Hyperion isn't exactly a low population server. You can find a house to buy, if you're willing to put in the effort to look for one. Its not even hard, you just browse through the residential districts from the main city aetheryte and look for plots for sale.

[crc0427]

People can't simply make an alt and give them a house. You have to be a certain rank and level.

[crc0427]

Honestly, owning a house myself, I do feel like housing should have never been private. It should have been company only, at least in the current wards. A housing ward filled with private housing tends to be a dead ward.

[dspguy]

Don't you need to have up to a certain level and GC rank to buy a house? You have that many alts with access?

[Niraves]

Don't you need to have up to a certain level and GC rank to buy a house? You have that many alts with access?

Yeah, I do. I like having alts.

[MomomiMomi]

People can't simply make an alt and give them a house. You have to be a certain rank and level.

Eh, you can get around that with an FC. And making houses FC only wouldn't have stopped people from getting multiple house either because of that.

Don't you need to have up to a certain level and GC rank to buy a house? You have that many alts with access?

I have six. Alts with access, not houses. Only 3 houses.