The housing system in this game NEEDS A COMPLETE GD OVERHALL. Complete stupidity....

[Edax]

I see no point in 1 person owning a Mansion sized house over a FC with a large amount of people.

You may not but I do. I'm very happy with my personal Mansion because I got to design it purely to my own personal taste. It is my proudest achievement in the game.
I think it is fantastic that players aren't restricted to what size house they can own. To be honest I find FC Mansions overrated because most players who use them are stuck with someone else's design.

[Aviconus]

The system sucks. It would be largely resolved if you could choose the size of your house regardless of plot size. Limiting house sizes to a select few is not how it should be.

[Rilifane]

You may not but I do. I'm very happy with my personal Mansion because I got to design it purely to my own personal taste. It is my proudest achievement in the game.
I think it is fantastic that players aren't restricted to what size house they can own. To be honest I find FC Mansions overrated because most players who use them are stuck with someone else's design.

I agree.
You get stuck with another person's design and many FCs either stick to a rather genereic "meeting hall" design which doesn't feel inviting or make it a convoluted mess off ill-matched chocobo/ carbuncle/ tonberry things strewn all over the place.
I'll have to wait and see how much our newly acquired FC mansion actually gets used after things settled down. Many FC members refrained from adding a chocobo stable or training dummy to their garden so they have a reason to visit the FC mansion more often. I think our FC would've been fine with a medium house. I don't think bigger houses should only go to FCs because they have more people. I'm happy to have people who are apt designers and enjoy the housing endgame have them.

What they definitely SHOULD do is increase the item limit.
I easily hit 200 in my small house and had to remove some things to keep everything within the limit. The basic design requires only few slots but as soon as you add details and personal touches, you tend to hit cap pretty fast.
And now imagine having to decorate a mansion with only 400 slots...

[EtherRose]

You may not but I do. I'm very happy with my personal Mansion because I got to design it purely to my own personal taste. It is my proudest achievement in the game.
I think it is fantastic that players aren't restricted to what size house they can own. To be honest I find FC Mansions overrated because most players who use them are stuck with someone else's design.

You're reasoning is purely selfishness with no thought on an actual solution to the housing problem. I'm not saying you're a bad person or anything but your thoughts aren't articulated well. While i agree that yes, having your own mansion to design to your personal taste is a delight, wonderful and a great achievement but by basically saying "I don't like the designs of FC housing" is not a solution. I'm viewing this problem from a non-personal and logical standpoint which is why i said FC's should have the bigger houses OR add more various house designs/sizes. There simply isn't enough houses for FC's or everybody in general. They could also split up FC and personal housing. Well, if i put more thought into it - i think all the housing plots should be for personal housing only. Meaning that all small/medium and large plots are for personal only. They should make a new area for FC's and in this area you should be able to make "Outposts" or something that your FC would want to hang out at. I don't know, i'm just throwing ideas out there instead of trying to justify my own personal house. I just want enough housing for everybody. My FC is stuck with a medium house and they want a mansion. I can't do that because there isn't enough and everybody keeps buying them personally.

[Edax]

You're reasoning is purely selfishness with no thought on an actual solution to the housing problem. I'm not saying you're a bad person or anything but your thoughts aren't articulated well. While i agree that yes, having your own mansion to design to your personal taste is a delight, wonderful and a great achievement but by basically saying "I don't like the designs of FC housing" is not a solution. I'm viewing this problem from a non-personal and logical standpoint which is why i said FC's should have the bigger houses OR add more various house designs/sizes. There simply isn't enough houses for FC's or everybody in general. I just want enough housing for everybody. My FC is stuck with a medium house and they want a mansion. I can't do that because there isn't enough and everybody keeps buying them personally.

I wasn't suggesting a solution to the housing problem, I was merely pointing out that personal housing is a feature, not a problem. You're reasoning is also pure selfishness. Your FC wants a Mansion so you're suggesting depriving players of access to one of the game's best content so you can more likely get what you selfishly desire. Why do FC deserve exclusive access to the best houses? Your FC does not need a Mansion. You merely wanted it, same as I did before I upgraded. What's to stop me from suggesting that FC should be restricted to small houses? Maybe we shouldn't play this "you're pure selfishness" game and try to restrict each other's right to own homes in this game.

I agree there aren't enough houses for everybody, but I also somewhat view this problem like the Popeye's chicken sandwich. Someone's already been stabbed to death over one of those sandwiches, but what's driving this fanaticism is the lack of supply, at the end of the day it's just a sandwich not worth all this hysteria. Same with housing, I think what's driving so much of the hysteria is that there simply isn't enough to go around. I get the impression if everyone does get a house, suddenly most people will stop caring about housing. That's not to say everyone shouldn't get a house, but that all these hyperbolic rage threads about housing are simply hyperbolic.