Auto-demolition Feedback / AKA, I'm tired of feeling captive to the housing system

[Blue_Myu]

The issue with this is, looking at it from a database perspective, storing demolished homes' inventories with placement data and such intact would take exactly as much storage as the original house itself. The game is designed to only have so many houses. If they could expand that significantly, they'd add more wards instead. If they could find a way to tie that much data to the character instead of to the plot of land itself as is currently the case, they would likely look into an instanced housing solution with no demolition instead. These homes would possibly only be available if the owner is online, because visiting one would query the character data instead of the plot data.

In the system we have now, they have got to clear out that stored data eventually, because it creates an "extra" house's worth of data, as if you'd relocated to plot 61. And it's not feasible right now for that plot number to go up infinitely as former homeowners quit forever over the course of another decade.

It's difficult to explain if you don't know all the little angles a dev has to think about this from, so I hope this makes sense.

I say this not to tell you "no, this can't happen" but to help you think about where the problems lie and work out the kinks. Tying the furnishing and placement data to the character instead of the plot would be an enormous step toward a better system and would allow for things like infinite-time storage like you suggest.

Instanced housing would resolve the need to auto demolish in the first place and store data most likely.

That is if the apartments are to go by anyways. There are finite apartments yes, but there are so MANY of them regardless, that you have little problems getting one on a server as populated as Jenova where housing competition is absolutely fierce.

I also do not believe that apartments demolish either, and I can't help but wonder why that is, when they do it for housing (Aside from the obvious "Make room for active players")

[Jojoya]

I also do not believe that apartments demolish either, and I can't help but wonder why that is, when they do it for housing (Aside from the obvious "Make room for active players")

That's the point of demo - to make a limited quantity feature available to those who are actively playing instead of leaving it in the hands of those who have stopped playing so that feature is effectively unused even though it's still consuming server resources.

Apartments aren't a limited resource in the way houses are because they're fully instanced. Last I heard, even Balmung had plenty of apartments still available for those who wanted one for their character. Plus the dev team has stated it's easy to expand the number of available apartments since they are instanced should there be a need.

[Bright-Flower]

That's the point of demo - to make a limited quantity feature available to those who are actively playing instead of leaving it in the hands of those who have stopped playing so that feature is effectively unused even though it's still consuming server resources.

Apartments aren't a limited resource in the way houses are because they're fully instanced. Last I heard, even Balmung had plenty of apartments still available for those who wanted one for their character. Plus the dev team has stated it's easy to expand the number of available apartments since they are instanced should there be a need.

Yep I had no idea just the other day snagging an apartment for an alt on balmung. Unless you're picky about what ward you want to be in it's easy to get oen.

Houses however are much fewer in number, and have additional features. More interior room. An exterior to decorate. Gardens that serve a gameplay purpose, and for FC housing anyway, you have workships and missions to send airships/submarines on.