New Wards Alone Aren't Going to Solve the Housing Issue

[Lady_Venus]

Making new wards with the same setup wont solve anything... I KNOW i will be camping my screen all the maintenance hours, log INSTANTLY to only be chain booted out of the game for 10,20 mins then log to find everyhting purchased and 80% is personal houses again!!

Make personal and FC houses in different wards!

Ward 13 (FC housing Ward)
Ward 14 (Personal housing Ward) .. etc.

Let the alts fight each other in their wards and get them off our backs.. we want to get our fc house!

[Mikki]

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But you'd still be fighting alts. There were some really lovely plots I've been eyeing for my FC for months but sadly many times after investigating I was met with the realization that they were just shell FCs squatting on the house. An FC with two people in it, both level 1 characters and the house locked most of the time. I wondered what the point of that even was, honestly. You can't enjoy that house at all. Why are you squatting on it? Probably to resell. It seems common to sell a house under the guise of selling an FC. Other times, it was unlocked and I'm guessing they had fun decorating it. So the point here is......... you'll still be competing with alts, scalpers and all of that junk no matter what.

[Lady_Venus]

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but alteast it will limit it to an extent.. you still have to have a lvl 6 FC to be able to buy an FC house... thats harder compared to just an alt running in and taking a personal house with no requirements (except for having gil and being able to access the housing areas) and another nice solution people requested 1 personal house per account.. or 1 personal house per server (for those people who have characters on different servers) along with FC wards and personal wards.. combine all those things and we will make the housing system better and less painful.

[Penthea]

thats harder compared to just an alt running in and taking a personal house with no requirements (except for having gil and being able to access the housing areas)

Actually I think they need to be also at least level 50 and have a certain gc rank. The same prerequisite to buy fc rooms, with the exception of price of course.

[Mikki]

Actually I think they need to be also at least level 50 and have a certain gc rank. The same prerequisite to buy fc rooms, with the exception of price of course.

This. You need to be level 50 and have the rank of second serpent lieutenant. If people really want to hoard houses, they'll do it. :/

[Penthea]

This. You need to be level 50 and have the rank of second serpent lieutenant. If people really want to hoard houses, they'll do it. :/

Oh yea it's not diffcult to do at all, just a bit time consuming. Was just trying to dispell the myth that a lvl 10 player who just got the quest to view Mist can buy a plot right away if they have the cash.