Thoughts on additional wards

[Penthea]

No. Let me stop you right there. What in your right mind make you believe that a FC is more deserving of a L or M house over a single person? Please explain your reasoning, seriously.

Honestly locking solo players out of owning houses of certain sizes is just going to make people more likely to make shell fcs for themselves.

[Cylla]

Honestly locking solo players out of owning houses of certain sizes is just going to make people more likely to make shell fcs for themselves.

Oh i know it, because i'd be one of them people if SE pulled that. If anything maybe they should decease the amount of small houses and give more M & L if they are in more demand then a S house. Though I suppose with the current system, they wouldn't be able to decease the S houses and add more M & L.

[Welsper59]

Oh i know it, because i'd be one of them people if SE pulled that.

People still do this in WoW. "LF people to help start my guild. 100G for signing. No need to stay in the guild after." Minor restrictions won't stop players from doing it. I know I'd be doing it if I felt the reward was worth it (which in WoW, it easily can be).

Then it's a good thing that's not all they are planning.

Well we don't really know that. More wards is all we know they're going to do. Any changes to acquisition put in place, as per what was stated, still means it's just wards... a finite supply that does not even dent the actual demand.

[Krotoan]

Well we don't really know that. More wards is all we know they're going to do. Any changes to acquisition put in place, as per what was stated, still means it's just wards... a finite supply that does not even dent the actual demand.

They specifically said they weren't releasing details to avoid speculation. Let's wait and see, and if it's a poor solution then we can criticize.

[Welsper59]

They specifically said they weren't releasing details to avoid speculation. Let's wait and see, and if it's a poor solution then we can criticize.

Yes, but my point is that more wards is not the answer, which is the core of what the statement is implying. They could throw in a hundred new wards in every area and it still wouldn't solve the problem... and even the problem itself is not clear to most people (I'd even guess it's not clear to the devs). While people want housing in general, many now (and even more in the future) do not want a Small. Many are okay with settling on a Medium. However, no matter what status you are in financially, your real goal is a Large. Supply, even with hundreds of wards, is not going to be met with a simple bandage fix of adding wards to fix the face problem of "not enough houses" (unless it ended up being in the thousands or infinite).

Of course, it is possible that they are going to go that direction with 4.2. I do feel though that the bigger problem needs to be addressed in order to actually make an impact on the generic concern of "not enough houses." I would imagine a major shift to that direction wouldn't be kept underwraps so close to the deadline (a few months away). Likewise, I'd imagine that wouldn't be a fix they can complete so quickly, unless it were already worked on. I sincerely do hope that my own downer perspective isn't going to be right, but the devs aren't exactly reliable in doing what needs to be done lol.

[Krotoan]

lots of speculation

and again.. we don't know. I personally am aware everyone who wants a house isn't going to get one if they add a limited amount of wards. I get that part very well. Who knows what they've been working on. Maybe they've been working towards instanced housing this whole time and shirogane was just another bandaid to keep people "happy" and it failed miserably and now they have decided to push up infini-housing to 4.2 and some poor team of devs is now on crunch time because everyone lost their minds?


again.. speculation.


negative or positive? Wait and see. Condemning without actually knowing what they're doing seems a bit overkill.

[Zarabeth]

Well we don't really know that. More wards is all we know they're going to do. Any changes to acquisition put in place, as per what was stated, still means it's just wards... a finite supply that does not even dent the actual demand.

Then you didn't actually read the post. It's stated that, "we will be working to bolster our servers" also "and we will be making an announcement outlining the number of new wards and how they will be sold after reviewing said feedback". So yes there will be more than just new wards.
Beyond that, everything else is just stuff people are making up to keep the drama going. None of us know what, exactly, they are going to do beyond what was said in that post.