Please do something about housing

[Penthea]

I'll probably get banned for this

Nothing you have said would make you get banned, don't worry

It is a major gameplay feature that most feel excluded from. I don't know exactly what could be done but there's mainly solutions like instanced housing or reinstating demolition for houses that haven't been used in a very long time. Please do something

Unfortunately to create a system that would benefit all players equally would require SE to scrap the ward system and replace it with instanced housing or add an instanced housing system to exist alongside it. It's the best solution but it's also an expensive and time consuming solution.

Something players do ask for a lot is for apartments to be significantly upgraded so that they're actually comparable with houses instead of just being fc rooms with a chocobo stable. This solution is more likely to happen than actual instanced housing because it's only changing things about the current system instead of being a completely new system in of itself. If apartments were improved a lot, it would alleviate a lot of the issues about housing.

SE did plan to add more wards than the ones we just got but because of covid they couldn't add more servers so instead they optimised the current servers to fit more wards. We still got more wards but not as much as was initially intended. From this we can probably expect new wards will come again in the future soonish (?) but I think it will be the end of 5.4 (start of summer 2021) at the earliest.

As for demolition, it will be back one day but we don't know when. It's also a band-aid solution because it doesn't increase the amount of houses in the game. Regardless of whether demolition is on or off there are an enormous amount of players without a house. It cannot and never will satisfy the demand from a high population. And well the placard timer makes demolition feel vastly inferior to getting a house from new wards, which don't have a placard timer due to not being demolished plots.

I'm sorry I can't give you any good news about this other than that new wards will probably come again at some point in the nearish future. If you haven't already get an apartment. It's not a replacement for an actual house but at least you can still have some fun decorating with it.