An idea for obtaining houses.

[Enla]

Honestly I think SE and the community could do a better job at warning players of the pitfalls of over populated servers. Medium server pops are best when it comes to FFXIV

SE spams pretty much every populated server with rewards notices to move, and the ones that have the biggest issues tend to be nearly impossible to get into regardless. This is the message I see every day when I log in and multiple times until I log out.

[8:07]Welcome to Balmung!
[8:07]Welcome to FINAL FANTASY XIV!
[8:07]* Balmung is categorized as a Congested World: https://sqex.to/6AC
[8:07]* Bonus incentives are in place for those who transfer from a Congested World to a New/Preferred World.
[8:07]* Incentives include: FREE World Transfer, increased amount of gil that can be transferred, and items you can exchange for rare mounts! https://sqex.to/Sn9

Short of slapping a 'you can't have housing if you go to these servers because we didn't think this system through in any capacity' warning over the server list upon character creation, there isn't much else you can do. Besides quite frankly housing is really the only issue - now that Balmung is locked down and no longer threatening to implode - I have with higher population servers and that's a situation purely of SE's making and personally not worth transferring over. Though your mileage might vary.

[Dyvid]

SE spams pretty much every populated server with rewards notices to move, and the ones that have the biggest issues tend to be nearly impossible to get into regardless. This is the message I see every day when I log in and multiple times until I log out.

[8:07]Welcome to Balmung!
[8:07]Welcome to FINAL FANTASY XIV!
[8:07]* Balmung is categorized as a Congested World: https://sqex.to/6AC
[8:07]* Bonus incentives are in place for those who transfer from a Congested World to a New/Preferred World.
[8:07]* Incentives include: FREE World Transfer, increased amount of gil that can be transferred, and items you can exchange for rare mounts! https://sqex.to/Sn9

Short of slapping a 'you can't have housing if you go to these servers because we didn't think this system through in any capacity' warning over the server list upon character creation, there isn't much else you can do. Besides quite frankly housing is really the only issue - now that Balmung is locked down and no longer threatening to implode - I have with higher population servers and that's a situation purely of SE's making and personally not worth transferring over. Though your mileage might vary.

Maybe they need to give instinctive for new to the game players to start on low pop servers along with trying to get high pop servers to move. It would nice to know why the OP choice his server and what could have been done to make him choose a different one.

[Vrankyl]

Maybe they need to give instinctive for new to the game players to start on low pop servers along with trying to get high pop servers to move. It would nice to know why the OP choice his server and what could have been done to make him choose a different one.

They do though. If you create a character on a Preferred server you get the Road to 60 buff and silver chocobo feathers. Not sure if they are still offering 15 days of sub time as well upon reaching lvl 30 as well or not. Most don't think about that or housing when they select a server though, they generally think about what kind of place will be active enough to suit them. It's why people flock to the largest servers despite there being no free housing, they want to have the crowd around them.