Housing: there has to be a better way

[Zojha]

I would say, as others have said, only one personal house per account.

I would say no personal houses at all until they come up with instanced houses for personal use.

With the advent of shirogane, we'll have 60x12x4 houses per server, makes 2880. At 66 servers, that's about 190k. We have 400k characters at 70 alone, FCs go extra. Even if we'd assume half of those are alts, that still wouldn't suffice and that's assuming players spread themselves entirely even among the servers regardless of preferences, friends, language barriers etc.
Conversely, if the wards were for FCs only, the average size of a FC would have to be 3 people for the houses to work out with the same assumptions. On Balmung in particular, it would require an average size of ~8 to work out and that can even include alts. That's a lot more realistic.

Personal houses are the main reason the current system is broken and also a big part of the reason most so called neighborhoods are ghost towns, as the less people share a house, the less likely you are to see one of the users around.