Please add more wards

[mjorge1991]

Believe me, the servers absolutely can handle enough wards for everyone. Some back-of-the-envelope math suggests that an entire datacenter worth of housing wards would fit on a ten dollar flash drive, and even if people accessed their homes near-constantly, the end cost would be about 0.2% of the sub costs gained from all those players. Also, I grossly overestimated everything wherever possible.

If it takes a hundred extra wards per neighborhood per server to accommodate everyone, they can and should do it. If it takes a thousand, they can and should.

Oh wow! That is crazy. So why do you think they arent adding more if they have the space for it? (Genuinely curious). Seems like the simplest fix in my opinion.

[Manabender]

Oh wow! That is crazy. So why do you think they arent adding more if they have the space for it? (Genuinely curious). Seems like the simplest fix in my opinion.

Theory 1: SE is using horrendously underpowered servers. My cost estimates are based on the cost of AWS servers, so if this is the case, the fix is as simple as renting a few.

Theory 2: SE fundamentally wants housing to be a limited resource. In this case, the fix is going to involve a ton of people making a ton of noise.

Theory 3: They will release more wards (hopefully a ton more) with Shadowbringers. Personally, this is where my money's at.

There are, of course, many possibilities, but these are the few that seem most likely to me.

[mjorge1991]

Theory 1: SE is using horrendously underpowered servers. My cost estimates are based on the cost of AWS servers, so if this is the case, the fix is as simple as renting a few.

Theory 2: SE fundamentally wants housing to be a limited resource. In this case, the fix is going to involve a ton of people making a ton of noise.

Theory 3: They will release more wards (hopefully a ton more) with Shadowbringers. Personally, this is where my money's at.

There are, of course, many possibilities, but these are the few that seem most likely to me.

I have always believed that they want houses to remain a limited resource. Sonething in my brain told me that if they released a bunch of wards it would remove the demand. I might be speculating but the demolition timer also forces ppl to be subscribed every month.

[Dustytome]

I have always believed that they want houses to remain a limited resource. Sonething in my brain told me that if they released a bunch of wards it would remove the demand. I might be speculating but the demolition timer also forces ppl to be subscribed every month.

Originally there was no demolition timer though. That had to be added because they'd end up with a neighborhood half filled with people no longer playing. You're left with wasted limited resources at that point. We aren't likely going to get more wards until the possible new housing zone has been released and given time to fill in.