Petition for more wards / instanced housing

[Scardon]

Thats not a solution, its a placebo.
Like someone in the dev thread said, more wards at this point is like adding water to a leaky bucket.

The problem is lack of supply relative to demand. More supply helps with the problem. The lynch pin is HOW MUCH supply will be made available, if enough is made available so supply can easily meet the demand the entire idea of a 'housing market' will disappear since house flipping is completely reliant on the idea there aren't enough houses to meet demand.

The problem with simply adding something to stop house flippers is that its an abstract idea, almost every proposed idea also has a drawback to legitimate players.

[Kalitzo]

The problem is lack of supply relative to demand. More supply helps with the problem. The lynch pin is HOW MUCH supply will be made available, if enough is made available so supply can easily meet the demand the entire idea of a 'housing market' will disappear since house flipping is completely reliant on the idea there aren't enough houses to meet demand.

The problem with simply adding something to stop house flippers is that its an abstract idea, almost every proposed idea also has a drawback to legitimate players.

I think if you relinquish a house a 1-24 hour randomized timer should be set. This would make it so house flippers couldn't sell. Or automatically generated wards when ward reaches max capacity. Or incorporate the FFXI system of instanced housing. It would also be a good idea to make 1 account 1 fc house and 1 personal house that is shared among alts.

[Kalitzo]

Thank you all for signing the petition! I really think this was a huge part of it along with all the other threads about housing. It really showed the dev team how much people cared.

[ArchangelSavior]

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

[tSparkz]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4441373

[Kalitzo]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post4441373

I would say housing should be if your characters are on the same server it is shared per server. Because there are some people who play on 2 different servers. So maybe not one account but one per server of each.

[Scardon]

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

Unfortunately if the 3.x patch timeline is any indication 4.2 isn't going to happen until about February.

I would say housing should be if your characters are on the same server it is shared per server. Because there are some people who play on 2 different servers. So maybe not one account but one per server of each.

1 house per account, per server. So you could theoretically own 1 house on every server, but not 2 houses on any one server.

[Leloa]

This isn't going to solve anything... the same kind of people wiht alts or interest to just to sell the plots for 300-600mil will somehow be the first ones there again.

[Scardon]

This isn't going to solve anything... the same kind of people wiht alts or interest to just to sell the plots for 300-600mil will somehow be the first ones there again.

I certainly share a level of worry but they did say purchasing the new houses will be handled differently some how. I just hope it isn't an auction system because then places will just go to the super rich rather than super fast.

Personally I would love to see a '1 house per server, per account' go into effect with the ability to pay a monthly fee in cash for more plots. Structured in such a way people paying for extra plots can bank roll resources to open more wards. Someone wants a ward's worth of houses? Great, the money can pay to open up several more. Suddenly decides to stop paying, bunch of plots get freed up and no server strain from empty plots.

[Kalitzo]

1 house per account, per server. So you could theoretically own 1 house on every server, but not 2 houses on any one server.

Yeah I would think that would be fine no use in having houses across different servers unless you play on 2 servers