FFXIV Housing = UNBELIEVABLY INFURIATING!

[Kidria]

The RNG timer was to prevent player house flipping. Sadly, it's not really worked, and with the current system it's easily abused to own multiple estates via the FC loop. Adding Wards take memory and resources, allowing direct home sales once more encourages house flipping. People got grandfathered in when they went into the 'one house per account' thing, but even then if you look at things like the Mew FC on Gilgamesh, it has an obvious work around that folks like them happily abuse. FF14's mentality of housing being a premium and limited thing is ultimately what makes this 'housing crisis' happen. The honest to god way to stop it is to convert to an instanced housing system, which I dunno if they will due to the outside furnishing functionality unless they do a mixed system (with outside furnishing functionality being the limited and premium thing with ward houses and then instanced 'townhouses' with no yards the 'common man's' house).

Yoshi-P has already said they will re-evaluate the housing situation after some time has passed after launch of ShB. He didn't say how much time though, so I imagine realistically it'd be after Savage tier and the first wave of class balances/fixes before they even glance at housing. Housing is only 3% of the game if that; if this is making you this angry you really should try to find either something else in game to do, or take a break from the game. If you really want to decorate a space, you can scratch the itch with apartments or even an FC room in the meantime until you get lucky or the system changes.

[MaybeOliverB]

The RNG timer was to prevent player house flipping. Sadly, it's not really worked, and with the current system it's easily abused to own multiple estates via the FC loop. Adding Wards take memory and resources, allowing direct home sales once more encourages house flipping. People got grandfathered in when they went into the 'one house per account' thing, but even then if you look at things like the Mew FC on Gilgamesh, it has an obvious work around that folks like them happily abuse.

Sorry but no. There are no workarounds involved with these houses. In fact, we got rid of the single house was unwillingly acquired through that loophole at the beginning of 4.2. Our liability was generously given to a random houseless FC and they seemed very pleased

SE quietly removed the FC house restriction two weeks after the release of patch 4.2, which happened at the very same time the moratorium on personal housing purchases was lifted. Only personal houses can be considered as grandfathered as it stands. Anyone can go out there and stack 8 FC houses on every server if they desire, but are limited to one personal house.

That's 545 houses for you.