Housing for everyone?!

[Dyvid]

What's your point, exactly? I'm clearly talking about the exterior plots here, which are not instanced... If they were instanced, SE could hopefully get around the ridiculous server limitations they currently impose and as such offer people far more plots than is currently possible...

As far as I know, right now every plot in every ward is constantly taking up server resources, whether anyone is in those zones or not, because they're not instanced. Interiors and apartments on the other hand, the server doesn't need to load them if nobody is using the instance, so it saves space and doesn't load them, thus allows us to; 1) have far more of them, and 2) place far more furniture in them. Apply that to the plots themselves and end this ridiculous scarcity that only exists because of woefully poor planning on the developers part.

Well from my understanding our game is divided into two pieces on the data center. The Server world which contains world zones and all things that go along with it including outside wards towns. Then you have our instances which we call the DF which creates and contains all the things that require an instance like Dungeons, Trials, Raids, Stormblood's Raubahn, and the interior of all houses and apartments. Currently instance houses are a square floating in a blank space, simple to save and reproduce without too much strain on resources. But when you add the outside environment with sky, lighting, weather, so on and so on; it's starts adding up. In fact when housing first came out, there was problem in the DF server similar to SB Raubahn bringing the change that you can't log back into your house but rather in the ward. Unfortunately FFXIV architecture is built and the devs have to navigate within that design. So to sum up my reply, making a instance housing area on the DF server would only move the problem from one area of the game to another. The last thing we want get boot from a raid and hit with error codes because of housing or vice versa.

P.S. I do agree that the wards are empty right now and wish SE would add things to make them more lively.