Quote Originally Posted by Keridwyn View Post
it is really simple, no open houses, generate a new ward. Open houses, no new ward generated.
Unfortunately they've said before that's not possible.

The wards are each persistent instances, so they're always running, essentially the same as any other zone in the game.

4 housing areas, each with 18 wards, and of those each with 2 subdivisions - That's 144 wards/zones, that's more than all the other game zones combined.

But then multiply it by 66 servers... that's an incredible 9,504 housing wards that are always running, always needing resources.

I have wondered if they shut the ward down if no one is in it, but I doubt they do for performance reasons (we'd notice the delay if a zone was starting back up and it's probably a lot more intensive to keep stopping/starting 9504 wards than to start them up once and have them continuously run).