Housing Suggestions/Fixes Timers/Supply

[Penthea]

all housing could be instanced with each plot individually phased in. for example you enter The Mists and your house is located on plot 12 whenever you enter the Ward your house will always Inhabit plot 12, and the rest of the Ward will populate with randomly allocated housing.

I envision this working as follows, Each plot is individually phased, once you pass the wall/gate you are phased into that plot along with anyone else currently within the walls. Whilst outside the walls you are phased into the Ward itself and here everyone currently within that ward is present this would massively increase the presence in housing wards changing them from ghost wards to something more akin capitals and market boards. I would hope that instancing in this fashion would allow for more housing in general. one of the issues I see with this would be plot preference as if you allow anyone to buy any plot then the less conveniently located plots or "ugly" plots will never be inhabited.

All of the above of course is my personal recommendation and I'm sure is flawed in ways beyond my thinking. I'm open to discussion and suggestion on improvements or entirely better ways of managing housing going forward.

While this would solve the shortage issue, I feel like this solution has some problems.

How does the phasing work with gardens? Right now you can hop into a garden from the roads, but it seems that with your suggestions that players might disappear when they do so because they may be entering a plot that isn't displayed for you. Or would the gardens also be instanced? This would turn the housing plots into glorified apartments. A lot of people like the openness of the wards. Instancing the gardens would take that away. There would be no more jumping onto your roof from a nearby wall or stairway. Believe it or not this is something people really enjoy. I have seen in the ability to jump onto your roof be a selling point on house flipping forums.

As you mentioned already this would result in some plots being completely overlooked due to players being able to choose the same plots as many times as needed. So while the housing districts would become busier, some plots are going to have little to no activity at all. There are many plots that spring to mind that I know no one would take if they had their choice of literally anything. So then this would result in patches of dead zones in wards.

Not everyone wants the housing districts to be as busy as a city hub. Even though it's a game, people can feel uneasy in crowded places. I know some who found it hard to socialise with their fc in major cities and felt far more comfortable doing it after their fc got a house. Sometimes people want a nice chill place where they can do stuff in peace, without having to be cooped up inside a place like the inn.

Personally I'm very introverted. I find it tiresome to hang around very highly populated areas for long periods. The emote spam, busy chat, cacophony of sound effects and random blu suicides end up annoying me after a while. I understand that some people love this atmosphere, but many of us do not and housing in its current state (and what I mean by this is, each plot being unique and not one of many instances like you suggest) gives us quiet yet open areas that are far more relaxed. I'd likely end up visiting my house much less if we got your suggestion and my plot became a very busy area as a result.

I would much prefer if we got something I like to call micro-wards. Basically a player or fc can buy an instance with a huge plot of land, and can build as many houses as it can fit. This means players could create neighbourhoods together, or use the instance only for themselves if they wish. It would be as crowded or quiet as they wish. I envision you would hop between these micro wards similarly to how you do with apartments now. And because these wards would obviously be smaller than the ones we have now, the interior of the houses would not need to be separate from the exterior. It would also open the possibility of having a large choice of terrain types for the micro wards, instead of just the basic flat pieces of land we get for our houses right now.

Sadly...this is but a dream. I doubt SE will do something like this. They seem determined to keep a broken system.

What have you done for this server anyway?

I like how you're trying to make the criticism about them now. I guess you didn't fancy getting your hoarding highlighted.