In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[Poppit]

I am honestly so happy to hear this I could cry. Thank you. /sniff

[Krokov]

They're withholding details to prevent speculation, maybe I'm wrong but wouldn't that actually create speculation?

[Maximus-ronin]

@Naoki_Yoshida a member of a discord im on by the name of Tzevaeot stated something very interesting. If all the plots in the housing district where made to construct any size house then it would cut down on alot of the mad rush. for instance if i walked to a plot and had a choice to purchase a large, medium, or small house then i wouldnt need to try and mad rush to one particular area. the only issue that would stand now would be the amount of plots available to the player server count. Why cant we choose the size house we want to build and pay the price for that size instead of having to take whats available?

[Arckrin]

Thanks so much Yoshi, now my fc got a bit hope! We got a medium house on levender beds since Arr but we want to move to a large one to shirogane, I don't have a house but I personally want my fc have it cause our rooms are full and some of our members are homeless and they don't want an apartment. Hope we can get our dream house in 4.2

[Rynn21]

I hope they don't change it to one house per account. My server is very small, and it would mean my alt's house as well as some friends in the Goblet (place is really empty) would be taken away.
The real problem is these bots who re-sell plots on RMT sites :\ If those bots get removed instead, it would help a great deal.
Fyi I just have an apartment in Shirogane and never attempted to get a house and won't.

[Aiph]

Relocation services should be offered on mogstation or housing menu. Restyle all current areas. Layouts is the same but new textures and features exclusive to each housing (swimming, diving, boats and fish in Mist, fireworks or nightly feasts/parties in Goblet more dancing Npcs, a complete rework of Lavender Beds, wouldn’t mind it becoming a place where lots of cute minions errr animals you can /pet).

Limit housing to 1 personal per account. FC housing should go through mogstation and can only be bought with a FC made up of a limit of max level characters and officers (max being at least 6-8 jobs maxed out on levels with certain amounts of war, magic, land and hand) so no level 1 mules.

Always revamp housing areas every release never ever announce all the details on changes. If you keep things a surprise, people will not always look for new housing as they may wait and see what new surprises are in store for older areas.

[Tarnehorst]

@Naoki_Yoshida a member of a discord im on by the name of Tzevaeot stated something very interesting. If all the plots in the housing district where made to construct any size house then it would cut down on alot of the made rush. for instance if i walked to a plot and had a choice to purchase a large, medium, or small house then i wouldnt need to try and mad rush to one particular area. the only issue that would stand now would be the amount of plots available to the player server count. Why cant we choose the size house we want to build and pay the price for that size instead of having to take whats available?

While I like the idea, it would require entirely new residential district maps. Medium and large homes simply won't fit in the existing small plots.

[Diaphoni]

here's the thing we knew that plots were limited. We SHOULD have had time. I was in Shiro by 6:04 am and server live was 6:02 that's two minutes for it to just be gone on a med pop server I had the foresight to send someone to the Mists and told him to watch for ANY plots because I was already panicking. I had nightmares about what happened that morning for two days & in those we wound up with nothing. We were lucky & got our FC house & I managed to snag a personal house in the same ward & close by. We didn't want a small, but we got something at all, which is more than most & I'm thrilled we did. They've had years of this same issue & done nothing but release more housing on the same model, knowing it makes for an elitist bragging rights system & feeds the gilseller market, until this post today, they seemed to want it that way. I look forward to seeing it change to make things better for us all.

[Alastair_Helyous]

Patch 4.1 saw the introduction of the residential area, Shirogane, ... , we also received a great deal of feedback regarding this newest addition to housing. (Yes, because years of feedback is meaningless, right?)
(...)we failed to prepare sufficient plots for players, and for that I deeply apologize. (Are you kidding me, Yoshi? Are you honestly telling me you didn't see that coming?)
This problem was only made worse by the increased stress on the servers from players rushing to log in after the end of maintenance. (So you add a new housing region after 3 years and you didn't expect everyone would rush in???)

(...)In light of the feedback we have received, we will be working to bolster our servers in preparation for additional wards in the Lavender Beds, the Goblet, Mist, and Shirogane by patch 4.2. (Read: We'll apply a band-aid over the problem and pray you forget)

Can we all agree Yoshi doesn't know what is he doing?

[Diaphoni]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.