Fake FCs' Housing Abuse

[NanaWiloh]

Whoever said things need to make sense. This games server code is..garbage pure and simple. So should not be a surprise if they have issues like storage. If they really had enough then why would they need more servers?? Why do they need more space?? I am guessing here on everything.

[NanaWiloh]

Just for context their is a MC server called 2b2t. Its world gen file has gotten so big you would need a couple of 20 tb hard drives in raid config to hold it. Not saying any housing files are that huge, but too think those files are small is foolish. They are easily bigger then a character file.

[Arielen]

I feel like I know people with 20tb worth of screenshots or porn. I ain't impressed.

[Almagnus1]

Was not refencing 1.0 housing nor was the post I read. SE system simply has issues with the type of instancing housing people want.

Do you have a source for that? I'm curious on when that was said.

[NanaWiloh]

I dont even recall what thread it was in..sorry. It was another poster who said they heard about the issues during and old live letter. Given the issues with housing currently, I find it hard to doubt what they said.

Sorry for multiple posts was on mobile at the time...cant edit my posts on my phone.

[NanaWiloh]

I feel like I know people with 20tb worth of screenshots or porn. I ain't impressed.

That is alot of images...

[Almagnus1]

I dont even recall what thread it was in..sorry. It was another poster who said they heard about the issues during and old live letter. Given the issues with housing currently, I find it hard to doubt what they said.

Sorry for multiple posts was on mobile at the time...cant edit my posts on my phone.

I don't doubt you're right on this, but that said, if significant time has elapsed SE could have figured out a workaround for that issue so I wouldn't necessarily assume that's still as true today as it was when it was said.

[MicahZerrshia]

Storage!!

So, SE has brought up storage and server load before and how the game crashes because of it, but it was regarding why they could not increase our inventory, which is also why the chocobo bag works differently than our actual inventory bags. The servers they use for the actual game and for housing are very different in the way they are used. But the simple fact that this game is made up of instances and they already have tens of thousands of instanced houses in the form of apartments and interiors makes me think someone interpreted what they said wrong or you are remembering wrong.

Either way, my guess is that the reason we have no instanced housing is because servers are expensive to buy, to run, to store, and to maintain on top of the time and money it will take to develop an instanced housing system and they do not see the cost being worth it for a 10 year old game. Plus keeping it limited I am sure keeps more ppl subbed to maintain their house which is likely more profitable than paying thousands each month for everyone to have a house only to have them unsub between patches because they know they aren't losing anything. The amount they are losing because of ppl quitting due to not having a house is minimal and likely eviscerated by the amount of money they make by ppl maintaining their subs because of their house.

But in the end, the only reason Yoshida has given, to my knowledge, of why we can't have instanced housing is because he prefers the neighborhoods.

[KayrieFirepeak]

Yep, on Excalibur the last couple houses that have sold have gone to shell FCs that only have one level 1 character in it. Very cool stuff!

[Themarvin]

Have FC weekly stuff that must be fullfileld by the FC, meaning more in numbers would make it a very easy task, but next to full time if only 1 active person is doing it, that will flush out many of the intended 1 person FCs, it will flush out a bit part of the people that is selling FC's for insane amounts of cash and it will open up for that having a FC with a house is not without any trouble, make it easier for having ships doing parts of it, once getting to that or something.

There is a lot of people, who is earning gil on selling FC's and involved into RMT that way as well as for when they need to sell their gold to goldsellers and the likes.