Individual housing still sucks

[Vonleo]

Yup can confirm A LOT of open plots here on our server.

[Madbunny]

How hard is it really to implement housing enough for EVERYONE? 18 wards was the best you could come up with??

Jenova server census, 2/24!
Mist: 60 small
Goblet: 1 med, 192 small
Lavender Beds: 23 small
Shirogane: Big fat 0 lol

So tell me what is the reason of your unhappiness?!

[Alien_Gamer]

There are still open plots in Jenova, I just checked a half hour ago.

[Mithia]

Large houses for everyone \o/

[Madbunny]

There are still open plots in Jenova, I just checked a half hour ago.

Oh great, OP must be another Balmung player in disguise.

[Godofhealing]

housing should be instanced that way everyone can get one.

[NephthysVasudan]

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Yet an another "individual" who didn't think past their own server. (And likely isn't paying attention either)

[MistakeNot]

The solution is quite easy: dynamic ward generator. Adding additional wards when needed. With this system every server will have enough wards and plots. In addition map layout changes should be considered: less small plots, more M/L-sized plots in wards.

That is not an easy solution, merely an obvious one.
The way their code is built, it is probably not easy at all to make wards dynamic - at least not without a total rewrite of the housing system which, together with the database changes needed to make it work, would likely introduce an amazing number of new bugs and no small chance of people losing their houses and/or housing items.

[Terkhev]

As always, people with no idea about programming, much less FFXIV code, throw around "easy" solutions. Do you assume SE is full of morons that haven't considered those and many more different options?

[NanaKim]

@MistakeNot:
They did well with the apartments. Apartments are added when needed without adding a new one to each apartment building in each ward in each district. They don't need to rewrite the housing system, they could've add a second housing system on top, just like they did with the apartment system.

@Terkhev:
Actually I'm studying business informatics. Within all the years they could've already fixed the problem with the coding. I highly doubt that SE is really full of morons which aren't capable of finding a good solution within a decade. More likely MMORPGs are getting less popular in general, including FFXIV, even SE knows that, so they don't want to invest additional time and money.