BYE FC Exclusivity for this round. New housing Indo.

[TwistedTea]

I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. I think everyone expects for there to be far less fc houses than private houses for the simple fact that there are significantly more individual players than fcs.
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Because people keep framing this as shell FCs taking up wards of housing depriving individual players of housing, when that ~30% number includes both legit FCs and shell FCs.

The persistent ward housing system is bad with coping with increasing player populations as this freeze demonstrates.

Even in a free for all situation like this, not every individual player who wants a house, is gonna get a house. Especially not on a high pop server.

Adding new wards is kicking the can down the road.

A more feasible solution would be to ask SE to improve upon apartments. Let us upgrade them for gil to penthouses/condos with balconies for gardening/workshop access.

[Penthea]

Because people keep framing this as shell FCs taking up wards of housing depriving individual players of housing

Well...they are...this isn't a theory. This is something that actually happens. There are many reasons why players don't have access to houses and one of those is because of some players/fcs creating shell fcs. But of course the core issue is SE themselves and the awful system they gave us. It just so happens some people are making a bad situation worse.

The persistent ward housing system is bad with coping with increasing player populations as this freeze demonstrates.

Even in a free for all situation like this, not every individual player who wants a house, is gonna get a house. Especially not on a high pop server.

Completely agree.

A more feasible solution would be to ask SE to improve upon apartments. Let us upgrade them for gil to penthouses/condos with balconies for gardening/workshop access.

Again I completely agree. Doing this could dramatically improve the housing situation and without even needing to add new wards.

[Luna-M]

Well...they are...this isn't a theory. This is something that actually happens.

Not everywhere though. Should not say it's a thing when it generally happens on more populated servers. Here on Zodiark we had 10-20 plots available for months before Covid happened but we still see a few plots open up on a weekly basis.

[Penthea]

Not everywhere though. Should not say it's a thing when it generally happens on more populated servers. Here on Zodiark we had 10-20 plots available for months before Covid happened but we still see a few plots open up on a weekly basis.

Yea I know it doesn't happen everywhere and even if it does the extent can wildly vary. Sometimes fcs have one extra house. Sometimes they have as many as ten. Sometimes only one fc in a server does this and sometimes it's more. My point was that it gets talked about because it is something that occurs. Nothing more.