Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
So, I'm just going to point this out.
Even if housing was instanced, they would still need more servers to support those instances.
Many of you may not remember, but there was a time where you could be locked out of your house if too many people were using them at once. This includes being locked inside your personal room in the fc house (bar teleporting out).
So, either way, more servers would be needed.
And if they made enough houses for everyone to have one, they would also need to have enough servers to support everyone who is online at once being inside them, even if it doesn't happen often.
I feel like people vastly underestimate how much work is needed to do housing.
No one is underestimating anything. There have been better housing systems, and they're all tied to them being instanced housing; the biggest problem with the current housing is that every housing ward is a static instance, that means it is always running whether people are in it or not.
Running those kind of instances is much more taxing than running instances on an on-demand basis (ie. apartments) and that is what's causing this problem.