So, a lottery system and a divide between FC and solo wards, eh?

[Dzian]

No actually, they opened it up existing wards for personal because they gave a timeline for when personal will be released. They did not match the proposed patch so they just made it possible for the wards to sell for personal usage even though they teased early on that it would be "different & affordable " not because they were wastelands, not on balmung anyways.

no the personal houses were originally going to be seperate wards. but they decided to compbine them because the fc wards were so dead and empty.. gotta rememeber housing was super pricey back then which was also a contributing factor. very few fcs lasted very long and of those that did even fewer could actually afford a house.

[Illy_Peridot]

no the personal houses were originally going to be seperate wards. but they decided to compbine them because the fc wards were so dead and empty.. gotta rememeber housing was super pricey back then which was also a contributing factor. very few fcs lasted very long and of those that did even fewer could actually afford a house.

my first FC house back in 2014 was in a pretty populated ward, even on a tiny server. Sure, all the plots never filled, but enough filled that it wasn't like they were the ghost towns I see today filled with neighbors I never see. The big issue (I think) was that a lot of FCs would end up going inactive, and without auto demo back then it led to a lot of ghost wards as smaller FCs ended up dying while still holding plots.

Also, prices back then were cheaper on smaller servers. It was pretty easy to save for a plot outside of the big and mid population servers.