FFXIV Housing = UNBELIEVABLY INFURIATING!

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Here's several things that would definitely fix housing:

• Players cannot buy more than one personal house per account per server
• Players that are given until the next expansion to sell a house for it's full listing price
• Players that have more than one house per server will have all houses demolished except the one on the character with the most play time at the release of the next expansion, with the oldest char winning the tie
• All items can be removed from a house and stuck into storage without losing them
• Items expire at the housing reclamation NPC after a year
• FCs that are below the number of signatures needed to create the FC are deleted if they drop below that number for more than 30 days. An FC must maintain at least that many members for 30 days to reset the 30 day countdown timer.
• More instance housing options available to players
• Public gardens available in Gridania
• Public crafting workshop available from Garlond Ironworks (Revenant's Toll?)
• Public airship launch in Ishgard
• Public sub launch in Kugane.

IMO the biggest issue is that SE has created a situation where a handful of players can get most of the houses in a ward. This was fine with FFXIV was a lot smaller than it is now, but it's going to be a continual pain point as FFXIV grows as some players want to be in a public neighborhood, while others do not. IMO SE never should have allowed players to have more than one personal house per account per server, and SE DEFINITELY should not have had mechanics that are FC house only. The other issue related to housing are the existence of shell FCs (that is, an FC with less people than the number of signatures needed to create the FC) as SE should definitely not have allowed FCs to survive once they dropped below the number of signatures for any lengthy period of time.

Doubtless there are those that are opposed to changing this system, but it's something that needs changes especially since FFXIV has grown so much.