Equal numbers of plots will be added to all four housing areas

[Siniztor]

Yeah well I think that loop hole stinks too. I would rather see them implement 1 private house and one fc house per account. If you transfer servers, then you also give up your right to own a house on your previous server. They must then start anew to purchase a house on their new server.

And yes I think the 45 day inactive rule should be put back into place. Too many houses are sitting once again collecting dust.

i agree the timer needs to go back up. put in a clause if your billing adrress is in any area effected by the hurrican you can contact suport n save your house. but the amount of people not playing right now is high. As far as the per account i own 3 houses check any thread lol but i play 1 char a day the next day i move on my wife n i play all 3 couples every week twice a week

[Arazehl]

I think that line was mostly just about looking at the total amount of houses need to support the demand from both players without houses, and FCs without houses.

That's not what Yoshi stated in the interview at all, so let's not change the wording to suit. I know on my server, that 65% or more of the housing in all wards are privately owned. That leaves a small percentage for those with FCs, but without housing to support their FC ambitions. And on rare occasions when a house for an FC becomes available, people are having to settle for a tiny small cottage for their FC. I guess those players, who are made to settle, have to throw up their hands and think it's "better than nothing"

[Beckett]

That's not what Yoshi stated in the interview at all

It's actually exactly what he said

In order to resolve this issue, we will review the percentage of active players who own housing as well as the number of active Free Companies that do not own housing, and from there work to add an appropriate amount of additional wards to all four existing housing areas in Patch 4.2.

There is absolutely no mention or even hint of giving FC's priority.

[Bahati]

More wards, huh? Let me get excited for lobby errors (same system of implementation), having to camp out (random availability system), having the same chance as winning the Jumbo Cactpot (lottery when you're on Balmung) or having no chance at all for a personal house (FC priority). The only solution is to add wards by demand as the game's population grows and if that's not doable, perhaps stop up-selling housing as a game incentive and rewarding housing items most people can't use every single event.

[Alleo]

That leaves a small percentage for those with FCs, but without housing to support their FC ambitions. And on rare occasions when a house for an FC becomes available, people are having to settle for a tiny small cottage for their FC. I guess those players, who are made to settle, have to throw up their hands and think it's "better than nothing"

And imo it would be bad to suddenly give the priority of housing to one side of possible owners and not both. The current system allows private players and FC houses to own houses. Suddenly changing it to give FC priority would just annoy lots of players that also waited for a private house for months/years.

I would be fine if they introduced two extra wards (on top of increasing the amount of wards per zone) per zone which would be FC only for a day or two. This would give the FCs at least some more chances but at the same time everyone else also can get their hands on plots in the other new wards. But making everyone for FC first would just cause another uproar.

[KuraTenshi]

Have REPOST
Putting ASIDE the amount of resources it would take up... The major downside would be it's locked to FC but! Just imagine..

You get instanced FC Wards.The FC purchases an instanced ward from wherever they'd like. So then anyone in the FC can buy a small/medium/large. FC house can also have whatever. So EVERYONE can have a house.And if you NEED more, it will add more (like apartments) but only when everything has been filled.

PROS
Everyone gets a house
People can get multiple spaces
You can buy at your own time
You still have that neighborhood feel with FC mates
No house flippers

CONS
Tied to an FC
Neighbors only FC mates
Pain to access to view from non FC members
A crap ton of resources from SE

So here are a lot of complaints I've seen and solutions:
Just not enough housing via
-People owning more than one-Houseflippers or just in general
1 house per account
Instanced Housing
Rent
Increasing apartment space
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[joshdavis271]

This could work, but probably hard to implement, I would love FC owned wards that are separate from personal housing.