Solution to housing crisis

[Dillia]

Here is another idea. Make the housing wards for personal housing only and let Free Companies purchase an instanced airship the size of the Prima Vista. All the functions can remain intact with outdoor furnishings on the top deck of the ship, multiple levels inside, personal quarters for company members and a workshop for crafting. If I recall, the reason that airships were not more widely used is due to dragon attack. Well with the end of Heavensward that should be a non issue. We can even let Nero be our black market imperial airship vendor.

[Kyoji5]

Owning a house is meant to be elitist by design though. So although that might be disheartening, that's kinda how things work.

If owning a house is elitist and difficult to obtain by design (and could very well be true), then it doesn't seem to be acceptable to a lot of players of this game .

It's not okay to force people to log in at a certain time when people have jobs/lives outside of the game and can't get up at the time the servers come back up, just to find out there are so many people logging in, you have to pray to RNGesus you get in and then hope to get one of the open plots. Everyone should be able to get a house if they have the gil to buy it. It's like, "hey, you can buy eastern style houses in Shirogane when it opens up! Wait, no you can't, just kidding. All the plots sold in 10 minutes or less on each server with numerous plots being sold for hundreds of millions of gil online, violating ToS."

[Okamimaru]

Actually this is a good idea... each housing district with instanced islands for additional housing... this would let everyone own a house (provided they meet the housing requirements) while keeping the current housing system in tact for players who like the neighborhoods/status/ect... maybe make it a bit cheaper... like 2 mil for small 10 for med and 20 for large...

[ChloeGrace]

That the rarity was -by design-. They want getting a house to be hard.

There are much better ways to make it difficult. Enforced rarity of virtual properties and allowing rush purchase is the worst possible method.
The upgrade options OP mentioned are definitely a nice way to incentivize it. Perhaps only people who have cleared certain trials or raids can improve to medium or large houses. Or make the deed/schematics a drop from said instances. A small should be MSQ complete at the very least.

[Almagnus1]

Actually this is a good idea... each housing district with instanced islands for additional housing... this would let everyone own a house (provided they meet the housing requirements) while keeping the current housing system in tact for players who like the neighborhoods/status/ect... maybe make it a bit cheaper... like 2 mil for small 10 for med and 20 for large...

The problem you're going to come to hate is every time you want to use the marketboard, you're going to see a loading screen.

Unless they stick a marketboard on the private island, that is.

[Banyaanyaa]

Thinking back on it, it may not be that difficult to place a market board on the islands. Proper programming practices would dictate that they placed the code for the market board within a class linked to the object rather than hard coding it into each areas' individual market board. I can't be certain as I haven't seen the code.

[ArchangelSavior]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...g-in-Patch-4.1 EVERYONE!!

[Claviusnex]

Thinking back on it, it may not be that difficult to place a market board on the islands. Proper programming practices would dictate that they placed the code for the market board within a class linked to the object rather than hard coding it into each areas' individual market board. I can't be certain as I haven't seen the code.

They've already linked into the underlying MB code by allowing retainers in the house so it really shouldn't be a major architectural change to support the MB itself.

[ZStar]

One solution would be this:

(Instance house/or maybe even plot housing)
Have an NPC that sells ghost plots. Meaning paying for a plot that doesn't exist in the game. So long you have the money you can just pay it.
Pros: Zero randomnesses, Zero obstructions and 100% availability so long you have the GIL.

[If instance]
Then once it is paid, you will immediately receive the plot

[If normal plot]
Then once it is paid, you wait for the next "Ghost housing implementation patch day" where Square Enix will launch those houses for people used the NPC to buy the house. That way there will be no oversupply and won't stress the server. You will get it eventually maybe wait for a month or two instead of never getting it. This will also give you (developers) time to put in plots/wards that will balance out demand/supply. Everyone will get a house, so long they can pay for it. That should be the only ceiling of getting the house.

Also, 1 house for personal and 1 for FC. This is key.

[ZStar]

Change apartment to Condominium

The condominium will be a duplex type condo meaning there will be two floors and will be the size of a small house. A balcony can be purchased as an upgrade for gardening.

Put fun into getting a condo, you can add Condominium utility which everyone in that condo unit can share these utilities, these utilities would be:

1) A gym - training dummies for everyone to use
2) A SWIMMING POOL (So people can swim and stuff)
3) Workshop (Where people can use crafting station for a small fee)
4) BBQ pit! People can buy food there and be a gather spot for people to chill and meet with her condominium owners!
5) ChocoPark (Carpark) where you can park your chocobo there and do Chocobo stuff
6) Condo transport to people to Exploratory Voyages.

These will help because you will then eliminate the need for people to get their own house because they can do everything in it!~
PLUS IT IS AN INSTANCE thus helping with the server stress if any.