Getting a New House Feels Impossible

[Jojoya]

Im in a similar situation but i really think about a server change and maybe you should to. As long you stay in the same datacenter your friendlist, linkshell and all that stuff remains. Of course you had to leave your FC but you could make a crossworld linkshell where all your friends and important ppl from your FC are gathered (thats what i plan to do).

Not going to work for players on NA servers. Here's a quick census I just did for Crystal. Keep in mind that Crystal has most of the lowest pop NA servers with the exception of Siren,

Balmung - no houses available

Brynhildr - no houses available

Coeurl - no houses available

Diabolos - One newly relinquished small plot in Goblet

Goblin - no houses available

Malboro - no houses available

Mateus - One newly relinquished small plot in Goblet

Zalera - no houses available

Keep in mind it's 5am Eastern and 2am Pacific in NA right now. One person was camping the Diabolos house and a second person showed up as I finished typing this post (good luck!). The Mateus house has 11 players camping it, nine of them with status set to Busy so other players can't screw with their placard spam (maybe the other two are just trying to screw with them?).

You'll see this repeated across all NA data centers. This isn't EU or JP where average population per server is smaller and houses are available on at least one if not more worlds in a data center. Here houses have been at a premium since June of last year. The addition of new wards in 5.1 helped a little but those were essentially filled even before the personal purchase moratorium was removed in 5.2 and completely filled the day it was removed.

People can't just switch to a different world in the same NA data center here to get a house.

[Waffles298]

Not going to work for players on NA servers. Here's a quick census I just did for Crystal. Keep in mind that Crystal has most of the lowest pop NA servers with the exception of Siren,

Balmung - no houses available

Brynhildr - no houses available

Coeurl - no houses available

Diabolos - One newly relinquished small plot in Goblet

Goblin - no houses available

Malboro - no houses available

Mateus - One newly relinquished small plot in Goblet

Zalera - no houses available

Keep in mind it's 5am Eastern and 2am Pacific in NA right now. One person was camping the Diabolos house and a second person showed up as I finished typing this post (good luck!). The Mateus house has 11 players camping it, nine of them with status set to Busy so other players can't screw with their placard spam (maybe the other two are just trying to screw with them?).

You'll see this repeated across all NA data centers. This isn't EU or JP where average population per server is smaller and houses are available on at least one if not more worlds in a data center. Here houses have been at a premium since June of last year. The addition of new wards in 5.1 helped a little but those were essentially filled even before the personal purchase moratorium was removed in 5.2 and completely filled the day it was removed.

People can't just switch to a different world in the same NA data center here to get a house.

just chiming in, NA player on primal. on Ultros alone we've had completely full wards for a good long while. the new wards they added with 5.1 were completely bought out by FCs and player relocations within a few hours of the servers going live, and the vacant plots they left behind refilled in a couple days. when a new ward is opened up with an update you pretty much need to be one of the lucky few to get into the game, onto the server, and either buy an fc plot or relocate within the first 5-20 minutes of the servers going live or your not getting a house.