Let's Talk Housing

[Vrankyl]

As most of us are painfully aware, trying to obtain a house either for personal use or FC use is next to impossible on high population servers such as Gilgamesh, Balmung and Mateus.

The wards that have been added were full within minutes on those servers and they will be filled again (Within minutes) come the release of 5.1. It's long overdue that we get a more reliable answer to the housing problem on those servers.

Uh... As someone who was on Balmung during the last time they added new wards I can tell you that the only thing that was filled within minutes ((And I mean like 15-30 minutes)) were the Mediums and Larges. I had no issue upgrading my small to a medium during that in one of the new wards and that was 20 minutes after the servers went live. Hell in the older Wards they lasted even longer, we were seeing mediums in the Goblet hours after the new wards went live. Then there was the fact that most of the new wards were then empty beyond belief since no one was really buying smalls at all. It wasn't until they lifted the restriction on personal house purchases that they filled up.

[Angellos]

Uh... As someone who was on Balmung during the last time they added new wards I can tell you that the only thing that was filled within minutes ((And I mean like 15-30 minutes)) were the Mediums and Larges. I had no issue upgrading my small to a medium during that in one of the new wards and that was 20 minutes after the servers went live. Hell in the older Wards they lasted even longer, we were seeing mediums in the Goblet hours after the new wards went live. Then there was the fact that most of the new wards were then empty beyond belief since no one was really buying smalls at all. It wasn't until they lifted the restriction on personal house purchases that they filled up.

Mateus and Balmung had no housing left whatsoever once the FC only restriction was lifted. The rest of the houses were gobbled up in under an hour. It doesn't matter if they're gobbled all up by FC's, or gobbled up by a combination of FCs and Individuals: There's still many FCs that are homeless and can only buy a house during the RARE ward expansions like this one and there are PLENTY of individuals who would love a private home and can't get one because they scarcely come open.

Even when they do come open, people have to camp them for up to 24 hours just to have a CHANCE at clicking it at just the right time to claim it before the other 40 people get it.

Horrible system.