The Devs really need to change how housing works.

[Arrhin]

As much as I enjoy the open neighborhoods, instanced housing is the solution

[Leomoon]

As much as I enjoy the open neighborhoods, instanced housing is the solution

that is a solution too. I am jut tired of this waiting game and people being land sharks.

[Nalien]

As much as I enjoy the open neighborhoods, instanced housing is the solution

The open neighborhoods don't even function that well, because everyone is spread out over so many wards and subdivisions. You don't see a lot of houses because of it, you see your little corner and the houses nearby, same with your "neighbors".

It would actually work a lot better if the plots themselves were moved into instances. Keep Lavender Beds, the Goblet, etc., but take the current garden space of houses, and move that into an instance. Collapse all the Wards into a single zone. Rework the fence to include a gate so it's more acceptable to have an invisible wall stopping us jumping into plots. The instanced version is now accessed via the placard outside each plot. So, for example, if you own plot 1 in ward 1, you're now first on that list at the placard for plot 1, if you own plot 1 in ward 3, you'd be 3rd on that list. An instanced system very much like how apartments work, just for the current garden plots.

Work in a system where the zone randomly displays a snapshot of various houses from the instance list, mark them with a star in the placard list so people can see the house easily and maybe visit it if it catches their eye. Heck, work in that whole guest book "Like" system into the list... Do all that and you still have the exact same neighborhood vibe from say Lavender Beds, but it's amplified and (at least IMO) improved upon. It's easier to visit others plots with such a system, compared to wading through wards and subdivisions. Right now you have 36 versions of a plot spread across 36 versions of the zone, instance them and slap them in 1 zone and you've got the people using those 36 plots all gathering outside the same plot, using the same market board/etc., and it would feel a hell of a lot more lively and, dare I say it, neighborly...

Once the plots are instanced, all the current issues should fade away, we should hopefully be able to have plots for everyone finally. Don't even have to sacrifice the neighborhood feel for it, in fact you can improve that feel by making them instanced...