Quote Originally Posted by tdb View Post
While I don't disagree about more wards being a band-aid, your math is grossly wrong. Firstly, Kugane has housing too. Four districts times 24 wards equals 96 wards, not 72. Second, that's per server. The game has 68 servers, so that makes for a total of 6528 wards.
I was going to reply with some version of this. Reading bad math that no one is correcting was bothering me a little. So to take this a step further. Using his "target number" of 10790 wards, minus the 6528 we have now means we are around 4262 wards short. Divide that by 68 game servers(i acknowlege that player population isnt uniformly distributed), and you get 62 with a remainder. Split among the 4 cities would amount to a little under 16 wards. This isnt accounting for FC housing(about 25% of houses are FC houses as of the last data i saw), but there are also many players who dont care about or want a house. If ishgard ends up just as a "normal" housing ward like the other 4, opening that would add 1440 more houses per server as things stand now(the equivalent of adding 8 more wards per server) - or more potentially if they also increase the overall number of wards.