Housing Suggestions

[Almagnus1]

That’s an unlikely scenario. It’s far more likely that the leader just left the game—be it on break or permanently—and didn’t tell anyone. Doesn’t mean that the FC itself is dying; there have been quite a few instances of posters on here and on Reddit discussing what to do when they’re in an active FC with an AWOL leader.

Which means that the active FCs should already have a contingency plan in place when the leader does go AWOL that #2 should be able to take over everything.

IMO, it's better to tie the FC house to the FC and have rules around when FCs are deleted which will also help with the housing situation because these one man FCs (which, going by the housing restrictions) are not something SE wants to exist.

A lot of crafters have alts to bypass specialist requirements. Raiders have alts so that they can run with more than one static, or pug fights for practice during loot lockout periods. People that RP have alts with different storylines and different personalities. Some people make alts to run though the story again. There are a lot of reasons why people have alt characters.

And yet, it's quite obvious that FFXIV is designed with the developer intention of one character per server per account.

As pretentious as the Mateus couple are, they bought their houses legitimately (as far as we are aware, there was no suspicion of RMT involved). There were no 1 FC/1 Personal rules in place when they did what they did, so you cannot accurately call them thieves. What they did was not ethically right (though that’s subjective), but they technically didn’t break any rules, nor did they steal anything.

And with the current rules, it's in violation of the buying restrictions.

It's like arguing that a slave owner is doing nothing wrong to retain slaves when slavery has been outlawed.

And how so? Instances are created only when occupied—they are not constantly active like the ward are, which would cause far more strain an take up far more resources than an instanced area. SE has stated in the past that more Apartments can be added at a snap of the fingers, and Apartments are instanced. The only reason they aren’t shifting to instanced housing is because of the stubbornness to which they cling to the active wards design.

Instanced housing isn't going to be this magical silver bullet that everyone is hoping for, and personally, I like the wards.