Housing should be limited to FC's

[sorawild34]

I honestly believe that housing should be limited entirely to FC's and apartments be for individuals. Plus no FC should be allowed more than 1 lot but at this point doing something like that won't work. You can't just take away the lots that people already bought fair and square. Even if I don't agree with the fact that people bought multiple lots, they still are paying costumers and saved up enough gil to buy those lots in the first place.

[Rinuko]

How about no.
If that's the case i would make a 1 man FC. How would that resolve anything?

[sorawild34]

Then there is no answer. People aren't just going to give up the multiple lots they bought. And everytime instanced housing is brought up half the people complaining about this back peddle because they don't like the idea of not being in a neighborhood or not having a garden.

[Sairys]

How about no.
If that's the case i would make a 1 man FC. How would that resolve anything?

For some people this would halve the number of houses they have though.
For Cactuar right now, that would almost mean there are enough houses for every fc (moves us from 29.6% of fc's with an estate to 93.2%). If you restrict it so that micro FCs can't have housing, you'd likely have every fc with a house. (even a minimum of 1 or 2 could mean 100% ownership for FCs with 3 or more players)

[Vahlnir]

I would be fine with this if they added instanced housing for private estates, maybe keep the wards specifically for FCs. As long as I could relocate without an issue I'd give up my plot in a heartbeat. If your aim is to promote ALL housing only for FCs, then my only answer is a big fat no. Apartments are glorified FC rooms so no thanks to that either.

[Almagnus1]

How about no.
If that's the case i would make a 1 man FC. How would that resolve anything?

Force FCs to have at least 4 or 5 members, or risk getting disbanded after a set period of time. Also throw in a strike system on the FC where they have to maintain members at or above the limit for a certain period of time to make a strike go away, or bad stuff happens when they get three strikes.

That system would likely never get seen by most FCs, yet it would prevent the 1 man FC from being a thing, which would also prevent those houses from being part of the market.

[K1tt]

I own a small in mist and I love my house, but if they were to implement better apartments, say one that had the exact same size and layout as a small house and I could move there I would. If apartments are to be our instanced housing then SE need to make them more appealing. 750k for a cottage sized, 1 mill for a medium and 1.5 million for a large. Im certain that would alleviate some of the housing issues. Plus they are permanent.

[Sairys]

I own a small in mist and I love my house, but if they were to implement better apartments, say one that had the exact same size and layout as a small house and I could move there I would. If apartments are to be our instanced housing then SE need to make them more appealing. 750k for a cottage sized, 1 mill for a medium and 1.5 million for a large. Im certain that would alleviate some of the housing issues. Plus they are permanent.

I'd love it if they were the same floor space, but if the mediums had like a loft style (like you can see down from the small upstairs area into a larger downstairs area) and if large was basically that, but you got a nice balcony with a view and the ability to have garden plots on it.

[KinnisonArc]

Housing on wards used to be only exclusive for FC back when it was released, so there were no mad rushes like this and wards were open for several patches. Then everyone asked for personal housing but no one expected SE to screw this up by simply stuffing this option into the FC housing wards.

Honestly, I wonder why SE never go for the instanced housing wards instead and went for such lazy solution of adding a boring FC room/apartment which is also... instanced?

[Rinuko]

Force FCs to have at least 4 or 5 members, or risk getting disbanded after a set period of time. Also throw in a strike system on the FC where they have to maintain members at or above the limit for a certain period of time to make a strike go away, or bad stuff happens when they get three strikes.

That system would likely never get seen by most FCs, yet it would prevent the 1 man FC from being a thing, which would also prevent those houses from being part of the market.

People would just invite alts. This isn't a solution frankly .