The big housing problem, why it isn't the amount of houses

[Vahlnir]

The OP is right. The problem isn't the amount of houses. The problem is actually the price of houses. When the Housing system was first released the prices of the various houses were a much larger gil sink then they are now. It actual took large FCs quite a bit of time to gather the necessary gil purchase a medium or small not to mention large.

Player income has increased to the point where those original high prices are currently insufficient as a gil sink. Reasonably active players can now easily have the money to buy a Large on their own.

What SE actually needs to do is increase the price of plots by at least a factor of 10 and add an additional weekly maintenance fee of 1% the purchase price.

That doesn't fix the underlying problem, which is the availability of houses. So you are wrong. A lot of people have a ton of gil, so gil is a non issue. The OP is right, however, about instanced housing being a possible solution, but I disagree that the amount of houses isn't the issue, because it most certainly is.

[Ultimatecalibur]

That doesn't fix the underlying problem, which is the availability of houses. So you are wrong. A lot of people have a ton of gil, so gil is a non issue. The OP is right, however, about instanced housing being a possible solution, but I disagree that the amount of houses isn't the issue, because it most certainly is.

To much gil is exactly what is causing the problem here. Houses were supposed to be removing Gil from the economy, and they are currently failing to do so.

When the average player can easily have over 50 Million gil solo and a Large costs between 20 million and 50 million far to many players are able to buy a limited resource without majorly denting their pocket book.

[Rofel]

Houses were supposed to be removing Gil from the economy, and they are currently failing to do so.

Not the house itself, but furnishing it. Every expac you get more recipes for furniture, but the house itself stays the same.

This is why it would be a good thing having housing available to everyone; to keep furniture as a ongoing gil sink.

And to keep the rewards from seasonal events relevant.

[Vahlnir]

To much gil is exactly what is causing the problem here. Houses were supposed to be removing Gil from the economy, and they are currently failing to do so.

When the average player can easily have over 50 Million gil solo and a Large costs between 20 million and 50 million far to many players are able to buy a limited resource without majorly denting their pocket book.

And increasing the prices wouldn't alleviate this, because gil is very easy to get. A one and done purchase does nothing but make an already broken system worse. Same could be said about a tax. We need some actual gil sinks, that much I can agree on, but we were never going to have that through housing. The issue is supply and demand. Period.