I feel it's time for more housing wards again

[MizArai]

yet they are too busy adding stuff that no one really cares about, such as platform jumping as GATE mini game.

I actually know quite a few people who LOVE the new jumping puzzle GATE. My boyfriend and I try to do it as often as we can to help show SE that there are people out there who love it and want more stuff like that. Just because you don't like something (or wouldn't do something in the case of leaving an "RP server" for housing) doesn't mean that others feel the same way. We all have our own opinions. SE has the very difficult job of trying to make as many of us happy as possible. Which is why they will probably focus on things like expanding apartments instead of giving us more wards (especially when so many servers don't need them).

[Aldotsk]

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Except you had been in Housing forum attacking RPers for complaining about housing for very long time. So I kind of dont take your opinions seriously. SE is not trying hard. They are busy working on other games.

Also you can tell me otherwise but glamour dressing is limited to 200 and it took two patches for them to know their mistakes.

It is still using spaghetti codes from 1.0 and it is reaching limits. They need to use entirely new engine.

[MizArai]

Except you had been in Housing forum attacking RPers for complaining about housing for very long time. So I kind of dont take your opinions seriously.

Um, I'm sorry, you either have me confused with someone else or you have greatly misunderstood something I've said in the past. I don't attack RPers. I'm fascinated by them. I wish that every server had a better RP base, because having most of the base on 2-3 servers isn't that great of an idea.

I think the worst thing I've said about RPers in the past is that if they want a house then they either need to be camping aethers every hour on the hour to see if something demo'd or else they need to transfer servers. There are lots of servers with small RP communities, and it would be great to have some people transfer from Balmung to other servers to help them grow (like what happened with Mateus, but that seems to have gone a little far).

2.1 - housing prices were 10x more expensive than current price.
2.3 - prices were slightly reduced by 3rd but wards were only 8 and subdivision didnt exist this time.
2.4 - subdivision happened
3.3 - additional wards up to 10.
4.1 - shirogane happened you know how disastrous this was
4.2 - wards up to 8 happened.

3.3 added wards 9-12, not upto 10. And we have 18 wards now, not 8. Also, you're completely neglecting apartments being added. I think you also missed a second price reduction, since prices used to be based on how much gil was on a server (3 different pricing tiers), and now the prices are the same for every server.

[Frizze]

SE is not trying hard. They are busy working on other games.

Also you can tell me otherwise but glamour dressing is limited to 200 and it took two patches for them to know their mistakes.

It is still using spaghetti codes from 1.0 and it is reaching limits. They need to use entirely new engine.

Um... you realize that SE has more then 1 team of designers right? And youre wrong on the glamour dresser too. They said upfront that they were starting smaller to make sure that it didnt cause a bunch of other issues and that they would expand it(size and function) as it proved stable. That isnt acknowledging a mistake, its being extra careful in feature implementation.

But obviously some people don't want instances because they care about neighbors that don't really care so much.

Most of the people arguing for this in the threads ive read are from your server. They cant RP correctly if their neighbors cant see them or something. Never understood it myself.

Im not going to add much more to the argument here. Weve been told that housing wards are more stressful on the servers then other zones, so theyre hesitant to add more(the fact that 3/4+ of the servers have open plots available to buy right now probly doesnt help things). If they were able to upgrade the apartment system to having different styles/sizes and finding a way to make the missing features work it would make a lot of people happy. But honestly, the more i read of your comments it seems like you just have an ax to grind. Dont know why, dont really care, not my problem.

[geekgirl101]

It is still using spaghetti codes from 1.0 and it is reaching limits. They need to use entirely new engine.

This. It would take years to rewrite an entirely new engine and cost SE a lot in having to recruit and re-train new staff, not to mention the time it would take in re-training new staff, plus there aren't that many software developers out there despite it being a booming business especially in the gaming department. Rewriting a new engine would also reset everyone's progress as you're essentially creating a new game, this is what happened with ARR and this was with existing code. Even if they gave everyone level 70 and all the gear and items they wouldn't be able to give you the overmelds, houses etc, plus it would be a hell of a lot of work going through every single player to give everyone everything they had in the previous version. Anything slightly out of place would anger a lot of the players and cause them to rage quit. It's not worth it in the end.