I feel it's time for more housing wards again

[Themarvin]

They DID do something about those players who didn't break any of the old rules that were in place for 3yrs:

* Players possessing housing above this limit prior to patch 4.2 will not be affected by this change.
* It is possible to relocate estate halls to empty plots.

The end. Move on.

I know and honestly am not complaining myself got a private large house by luck, but SE own every single account and they should do something about it as it is, so one player gets pissed for losing 6 plots, but would be getting 6 more new FC's or happy players that can finally get a house of some sort... just my 5 cents to the discussion, and also is how it should be dealt with as it is.

[Kittypryde]

I know and honestly am not complaining myself got a private large house by luck, but SE own every single account and they should do something about it as it is, so one player gets pissed for losing 6 plots, but would be getting 6 more new FC's or happy players that can finally get a house of some sort... just my 5 cents to the discussion, and also is how it should be dealt with as it is.

Seriously stop for a second and really think about what you are asking and suggesting. You are asking SE to retroactively FORCIBLY TAKE BACK PLOTS THAT WERE PURCHASED 100% BY THE RULES, that were in place for 3 years, and give them away to others because you think it's unfair? That is the worst idea I've ever heard. Not to mention it's hypocritical of you to suggest it.

What if SE said "dear Kurotoga Iga, we regret to inform you that some players think that it's unfair that you have a personal large, and we will be replacing it with a small, because this other FC down the street wants it and derserves it more than you. Sorry." Would you be okay with that? Same thing.

Or.... "Dear player, we understand that you have soloed palace of the dead on your Summoner, however, some other players who aren't as lucky, felt that you don't deserve your title and prize for doing that, so we are taking it back to make it more fair. Sorry."

Also, "Dear player, we understand that you craft alot and have 500m Gil, some players who refuse to craft think that the is unfair, so we are taking back 480m of your Gil to distribute it evenly to other players, because this is unfair."

I spent over a hundred hours leveling up my alts and doing MSQ, and ranking up grand company to get extra houses. You think I should give them away? LOL. You can get lost.

[Claviusnex]

I know and honestly am not complaining myself got a private large house by luck, but SE own every single account and they should do something about it as it is, so one player gets pissed for losing 6 plots, but would be getting 6 more new FC's or happy players that can finally get a house of some sort... just my 5 cents to the discussion, and also is how it should be dealt with as it is.

Besides punishing players who were following the rules this brings up a problem with items that have been bought through the Mog Station. Will SE reimburse the costs for items the player will not get back or might have duplicates of? I doubt it. Not that I consider it a solution but there are a lot of available houses on many of the small and mid sized servers in the event someone wants a house bad enough. However rather than punish players and keep fighting among ourselves we need to push SE for a real fix to their very poorly designed housing system. Until SE steps up to give us a viable system that scales to demand nothing will fix the fact that there will never be enough housing across all servers for the number of players that want it.

[QueenSophie]

Seriously stop for a second and really think about what you are asking and suggesting. You are asking SE to retroactively FORCIBLY TAKE BACK PLOTS THAT WERE PURCHASED 100% BY THE RULES, that were in place for 3 years, and give them away to others because you think it's unfair? That is the worst idea I've ever heard. Not to mention it's hypocritical of you to suggest it.

What if SE said "dear Kurotoga Iga, we regret to inform you that some players think that it's unfair that you have a personal large, and we will be replacing it with a small, because this other FC down the street wants it and derserves it more than you. Sorry." Would you be okay with that? Same thing.

Or.... "Dear player, we understand that you have soloed palace of the dead on your Summoner, however, some other players who aren't as lucky, felt that you don't deserve your title and prize for doing that, so we are taking it back to make it more fair. Sorry."

Also, "Dear player, we understand that you craft alot and have 500m Gil, some players who refuse to craft think that the is unfair, so we are taking back 480m of your Gil to distribute it evenly to other players, because this is unfair."

I spent over a hundred hours leveling up my alts and doing MSQ, and ranking up grand company to get extra houses. You think I should give them away? LOL. You can get lost.

My Feelings exactly. There is absolutely no way they should, or will ever do this. May I remind people suggesting this that all of these people got grandfathered in at 4.3, proving that SE will never do this.

[Pastahnak]

On the goblet comments, love the brimming heart and own the medium there, if they made the outer ring as good as the brimming heart the goblet would have no issue filling up more wards. But on the main topic if ur server has two available plots then ur server doesn't need more wards. Even of those two get taken there is always auto demo that'll free up some housing.

[InkstainedGwyn]

Last week there were no mediums on Exodus, last night there were 11 and I bought a Goblet 19 earlier. Auto-demo and moving happens.

[Krojack]

There's no nice way to point this out, but if housing is that important to you, move server. There's loads of servers with lots of houses left.

They're not going to release more houses while there's still multiple servers each with literally hundreds of houses left.

This is the best reply. UP and leave all your friends and your awesome FC and go to another server. Awesome game we have here. I'll be sure to let all my friends that want to join the game know that if they want a house at any point that they won't be able to play the game with me but go to another server and just make new friends.

Plain and simple, wards should be dynamic.

[Krojack]

Seriously stop for a second and really think about what you are asking and suggesting. You are asking SE to retroactively FORCIBLY TAKE BACK PLOTS THAT WERE PURCHASED 100% BY THE RULES, that were in place for 3 years, and give them away to others because you think it's unfair? That is the worst idea I've ever heard. Not to mention it's hypocritical of you to suggest it.

My answer is, charge a monthly tax for every house you have over 1. The more houses you have the more you pay. Give a 6 month notice.

What if SE said "dear Kurotoga Iga, we regret to inform you that some players think that it's unfair that you have a personal large, and we will be replacing it with a small, because this other FC down the street wants it and derserves it more than you. Sorry." Would you be okay with that? Same thing.

Or.... "Dear player, we understand that you have soloed palace of the dead on your Summoner, however, some other players who aren't as lucky, felt that you don't deserve your title and prize for doing that, so we are taking it back to make it more fair. Sorry."

Also, "Dear player, we understand that you craft alot and have 500m Gil, some players who refuse to craft think that the is unfair, so we are taking back 480m of your Gil to distribute it evenly to other players, because this is unfair."

I spent over a hundred hours leveling up my alts and doing MSQ, and ranking up grand company to get extra houses. You think I should give them away? LOL. You can get lost.

those couldn't be a worse example. You're just angry and completely twisting what people are pointing out here.

[Valkyrie85]

Tbh the grandfathering in people was a huge mistake, those people should only be allowed to keep one house of their choice and the rest go back on the market. In real life if rules and laws are changed, you still have to abide by them. there's no grandfathering in - So SE really doesn't need to be nice to the people who are technically breaking rules under the new changes.

There is no reason that people should be able to keep 20+ houses and 8+ apartments on one server. There's no reason behind owning all this besides being selfish and greedy and this can be seen by the "just move servers" logic always posted.

To fix housing these things need to be done.
1. Remove the grandfathered houses
2. Change the buying system to a lottery, so everyone puts their money down and someone is picked at random. This would remove a lot of the unfairness already in place.
3. Transfers should abide by the same rules as new buyers. Too many houses are taken by a transfer after people were sitting there 8+ hours.
4. Ban the people making fc's just to flip houses ( theres sites advertising this shit and still no one is banned for it...)

[Kaurhz]

We won't and we shouldn't get more wards, especially bearing mind most of the newly added wards in the Goblet district are still free on most servers (Most plots in each ward anyway). Just buy yourself a cute little cottage, decorate it, enjoy it, take advantage of the gardening, then when the time comes and the plot is free, relocate