So an FC on midgardsormer bought 60 plots...

[Ssmiley_Bjakkzz]

ONLY real problem is from Square enix here enters a kindergarden with a chocolate box only 12 blocks and giving it away for 30 children and leaves rest of them sitting crying with no sweets.
Square enix are rude and evil.

[Apricoth]

Well... I know this sucks but if each member did not have their own house, they can do this. Their FC has one house and then the members can have one of their own. If there was a restriction for one house per account, this situation would have still occurred. I see no real problem if every member in the FC had one house per account. If the members have alts that also have the plots in that ward, then we something to be pissed about. Others have mentioned already - have FC housing in its own realm/instance, open up many more wards or get the housing instanced altogether. This situation is not sustainable and will always be a sore point within the player base that love having houses in a game.

[Moogly]

ONLY real problem is from Square enix here enters a kindergarden with a chocolate box only 12 blocks and giving it away for 30 children and leaves rest of them sitting crying with no sweets.
Square enix are rude and evil.

Though in our case it would be more like bringing 12 candy bars for 3000 kids !
And having a couple kids snatch 4-6 bar for themselves...

[Dustytome]

I'm just trying to fathom how 60 people (or up to half that if they all bought personal fc houses too) managed to get through queue and take over a ward and subdivision before anyone else got there. I can see maybe a handful of houses, but the entire same ward/subdivision sounds fishy.

[Beckett]

Though in our case it would be more like bringing 12 candy bars for 3000 kids !
And having a couple kids snatch 4-6 bar for themselves...

Why are you acting so entitled?

[Apricoth]

I'm just trying to fathom how 60 people (or up to half that if they all bought personal fc houses too) managed to get through queue and take over a ward and subdivision before anyone else got there. I can see maybe a handful of houses, but the entire same ward/subdivision sounds fishy.

This is a valid question. I am curious about that myself.

[Ramiren]

The simple solution for this would be to give apartments the same functionality as a house.

I mean it's not a perfect solution since people already spent additional money on housing specifically for those benefits, but realistically housing should have been instanced rather than in plots right from the get go. What's the point of having players save up millions of gil over what may have been an extremely long period of time, only to have them unable to buy a house due to some arbitrary cap and minutes difference in time taken to log in.

[Zero_syndicate]

I get how this looks unfair, and really it's just unfortunate. The members of the FC are technically doing absolutely nothing wrong. It sucks that housing is limited and this is the result of that limited housing, but they are playing the game like anyone else. Unless if they broke ToS to get these plots they have every right to buy up a whole ward.

The housing districts are built with good intentions. They're built for the people that seriously want to own a private space to show off and do as they please. The people that are dedicated enough should feel special to even own a house as it is a special thing. It is why the housing is so limited to which I also understand.

I also thought that housing should be limited to FCs only but that isn't exactly fair to players either...(cont'd)

[Zero_syndicate]

I'd like the Phantasy Star Universe system where players owned expandable apartments. But the problem with that is only IF you visit the apartment directly you wouldn't see the work put into it, and out of millions of players that can be kind of tough.

Housing is nice because you can see the outdoor work and then perhaps coaxed into entering the house to see what else was done.
I think both FCs and Players alike should have a house. I also think that there needs to be more housing, especially more of each size as three large plots in many cases is no where near enough. Perhaps a ward of only mansions, then a ward of only houses and a ward of only cottages. Then also have the mixed wards we are used to. Increasing the amount of housing would be like increasing highway lanes though. You can do that, but the problem will still exist regardless...(cont'd)

[Zero_syndicate]

Again it's really really unfortunate, but they have every right to do this. The FC may not of even bought the plots with ill intentions and simply wanted to have all it's members on one ward. I know a group of some of my FC mates wanted to get houses on the same ward as well, they weren't able to but they also weren't trying to take over a whole ward. It's on SE and the team to figure out a proper way to do this, but they certainly won't be able to make everyone happy. They can add more wards but then we'll be back here soon after arguing about how there simply isn't enough for everyone.