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

[LianaThorne]

It's an option. It's either that or remove personal housing instead and make housing be for FCs and just have apartments for players. But if they do that, they should restrict it to active FCs with a set minimum number of active accounts as members of the FC to avoid one-person FCs holding a house.

I believe there is a place that temporarily stores furniture.

Again, no. Nothing needs to be removed. As it was stated before, the issue isn't # of houses. We literally just got new wards put in not that many months ago. The issue is how Square implemented allowing people to make alts and get additional housing. I'm not going to be the one to air out how it's done because I also don't want to encourage that behavior. The fact remains, some people own entire wards. That is the issue, not that FCs and personal housing shouldn't exist.

[linayar]

Again, no. Nothing needs to be removed....The issue is how Square implemented allowing people to make alts and get additional housing.

So something needs to be removed. Some restriction needs to be put in place to not allow that to happen. Like it or not, a current house owner needs to be forced to vacate their property.

[LaylaTsarra]

So something needs to be removed. Some restriction needs to be put in place to not allow that to happen. Like it or not, a current house owner needs to be forced to vacate their property.

It's not going to happen. You can dream about it but there is no way that housing will be removed from current owners. Not only is that not going to happen but those with grandfathered homes will continue to keep their properties. Any new rules forthcoming will affect new home purchases and not those currently in existance.

The option of upgrading apartments is a good possibility given they're said in the past they would be looking into that and perhaps the implementation of instanced housing along side the current wards, 6.1 should be an interesting revelation as to whether or not they will be adding to the variety of housing options or simply adding more of the same.

[linayar]

It's not going to happen. You can dream about it but there is no way that housing will be removed from current owners. Not only is that not going to happen but those with grandfathered homes will continue to keep their properties. Any new rules forthcoming will affect new home purchases and not those currently in existance.

The alternative that I suggested is to restrict transfers and getting new houses if you own multiple houses. So you can't move to a different district (including upcoming districts like Ishgard) if your account already owns multiple houses and you can't transfer to any other house in the same district unless it's to a smaller house and you can't purchase additional house with any other character even in another world.

[LaylaTsarra]

The alternative that I suggested is to restrict transfers and getting new houses if you own multiple houses. So you can't move to a different district (including upcoming districts like Ishgard) if your account already owns multiple houses and you can't transfer to any other house in the same district unless it's to a smaller house and you can't purchase additional house with any other character even in another world.

You can suggest what you want but they aren't going to hurt current home owners in anyway. They will continue to have the same rights as any other user or potential home buyer. Those people did nothing but follow the rules at the time and shouldn't be penalized for it.

This take away mentality isn't going to fly with the development team or Yoshi-P. Something needs to be done about housing availability but not on the backs or current home owners.

[linayar]

You can suggest what you want but they aren't going to hurt current home owners in anyway. They will continue to have the same rights as any other user or potential home buyer. Those people did nothing but follow the rules at the time and shouldn't be penalized for it.

This take away mentality isn't going to fly with the development team or Yoshi-P. Something needs to be done about housing availability but not on the backs or current home owners.

It's not really a penalty, though. They get to keep the benefit of having multiple houses.

But yeah, that's just my suggestion, and I don't really care what they do as housing shortage doesn't bother me either way.