Just over 12 hours after maintenance and one of my FC members has just picked up a choice plot in the Goblet, meaning that 5 of us now have personal houses in the Goblet (all in the same ward!), one of us has a medium in the Lavender Beds and I have a medium in the Mist. This is on top of the FC house we already own. There are still smalls dotted around in some areas except for Shirogane, which filled nigh immediately after maint. This is on Ragnarok.

In terms of availability, I think we're just about there in terms of supply and demand on any medium to high pop server, Balmung excluded. It's pretty damn clear that the issue wasn't FC housing, as there was barely any uptake on FCs in smalls, even with the benefits of gardening, airships and submarines. Any FC complaining about lack of facilities at this stage needs slapping.

The only way I feel they could improve on this short of instancing everything (which is still the ideal scenario!) is somehow changing the system so that people can upgrade their plots, or add "premium" wards which contain purely large and medium plots to satisfy that part of the demand.