That's great... but can we have an INSTANCED Housing area

[SerLuke]

World stability was quoted as a hurdle for more wards. As they are always up and using resources. You don't think those resources could be used else where instead of running all those wards?

Could? Maybe. Would? Likely not. It takes a lot more development time to create an unique open area then it does to create an identical looking residential ward, that’s the reason why we only get new areas when expansions launch, it’s not a mater of housing wards taking up server resources.

[Moonlite]

Could? Maybe. Would? Likely not. It takes a lot more development time to create an unique open area then it does to create an identical looking residential ward, that’s the reason why we only get new areas when expansions launch, it’s not a mater of housing wards taking up server resources.

I reread my post and my point didn't come across the best. You are completely right that a design team needs to make more zones. I was originally thinking and didn't come across as more open world resources. So when say Balmung was full and locked and people wanted to be on a larger population world. Instead of the resources that housing wards use would they have been able to increase population size by increasing instances of zones that are already up. So Odin pops and shroud is full people doing stuff in the zone get bumped into next one. Or the commonly bad one seasonal events in Uldah become a giant lag mess, it is a good idea to wait a few days. But if you could just pop into instance Uldah 2 when first is full.



I will admit we are getting to that in a roundabout way, with world visit. But with out the drawback of wards a data center could just become one giant world. With zones filled with players or bots depending where you are haha.