New Housing Zone + Moving existing house

[SaitoHikari]

FCs SHOULD have first dibs on moving. The needs of the many far outweigh those of the few. 'Many' being the key word: The only FCs that should be allowed to transfer are those of max rank, because it's an easily tracked metric showing that the FC is actually active with multiple players and not merely serving as an airship port.

As a compromise however, solo homeowners that attempt to sell their old house to move to Shirogane should have some insurance in being able to return if the attempt fails - as in, being allowed a 3 day window to restore ownership of their old property before anyone else is allowed to buy it. Said window however immediately disappears should they actually successfully obtain a Shirogane house (so they won't have time to try arranging the old property to be bought on an alt or a friend, because that comes with the risk of the Shirogane property being bought by someone else in the meantime).

(I say this as someone in a FC that has a house, along with recently having come into possession of a house myself, and I honestly feel particularly scummy about having said personal house knowing that there are FCs out there that actually need one. Though, the FC that would want to move into my house would have to somehow prove to me that they're going to remain active.)

[Senn]

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I lowkey hope FC's get first dibs to transfer. My FC and I really want a mansion in the new residential area. We currently have a large, and we hope we can have a smooth transition.

[Altena]

FCs SHOULD have first dibs on moving. The needs of the many far outweigh those of the few. 'Many' being the key word: The only FCs that should be allowed to transfer are those of max rank, because it's an easily tracked metric showing that the FC is actually active with multiple players and not merely serving as an airship port.

As a compromise however, solo homeowners that attempt to sell their old house to move to Shirogane should have some insurance in being able to return if the attempt fails - as in, being allowed a 3 day window to restore ownership of their old property before anyone else is allowed to buy it. Said window however immediately disappears should they actually successfully obtain a Shirogane house (so they won't have time to try arranging the old property to be bought on an alt or a friend, because that comes with the risk of the Shirogane property being bought by someone else in the meantime).

(I say this as someone in a FC that has a house, along with recently having come into possession of a house myself, and I honestly feel particularly scummy about having said personal house knowing that there are FCs out there that actually need one. Though, the FC that would want to move into my house would have to somehow prove to me that they're going to remain active.)

I am in two minds about this.

On one hand I would be ok with FCs having first dibbs to move / buy their houses in the new zone as you put fairly well - the needs of many outweigh those of few. However I can see a problem with this on the busier servers.. The new wards being filled up by FCs, with all current private estate owners and new private estate owners being majorly left out with 0 opportunity to move / obtain a house in the new zone. That means that the city states will effectively be full of private estates while the new zone will be full of FCs - only for the reason that they "had the chance to buy" as opposed to hunting for new allotments in the older zones (which many FCs will still likely desire more than the Doman housing ward). This means that you will have a bunch of only semi-satisfied FCs along with a bunch of very disappointed private estate owners/buyers.

Yes FC's will also miss out as that is just the way this limited supply / high demand system works, however I deem it a little unfair to the busier servers with a large number of FC's (Balmung and Gilgamesh as primary examples) completely take up the new zones with 0 opportunity for private estate owners to actually or move to this zone, especially after showing off and promising this new housing zone to private players as well as FC's..

In my opinion, they should have always had "FC only" and "Private Estate only" wards rather than mashing them altogether.. This massively reduces the competition between FC and private estates and you quite likely would see at least a few available plots from time to time - rather than being full capacity all the time just because any joe bloggs or FC can buy them.

Yes it sucks that SE missed the huge oversight of low level alt characters snatching up a private house and/or house for a lvl 1 FC with no members. It happened, and we can only hope they at prevent this coming with the Doman housing expansion..

On a final note, I really hope the Doman zone ends up having more wards (at least initially) than the housing zones we have at the moment - as it will likely be the most popular and you will have a whole bunch of people wanting to move + wanting to buy. The demand will be just as big if not bigger than before.. Especially since initially the housing zones were all released at once - however this time it's only one new "shiny" zone that people will want because it's new and shiny..