FCs buying multiple plots

[Almagnus1]

While your idea does sound good, in reality it would probably just punish more real players than the ones you're targetting.

If you're got an FC of 4 close friends and one of them leaves for another server... what then? That group of friends is now forced to add another character into their group just to keep the house.

It also won't really help. Anyone who has put in the time and effort to make an FC, rank it up to 6, make enough Gil for a house, find an available house and actually buy it even with the housing timer... the four person requirement isn't really going to be much of an issue.

They have two very easy options:

A) Just create more characters. Any standard account allows 8 characters and applying to join an FC, even from the same service account, is very easy, even more so if the FC already has a house with a placard they can click.

B) Buy some cheap copies of FFXIV Starter Edition and in the free 30 days create 8 characters and put them into whatever FCs they wanted. They could then just ignore the account/let it expire, but the character(s) would still remain in the FCs to keep the membership count up.

So then you'd have to make sure the member count was using active members only and that just wouldn't work. Many smallers FCs would be at risk of losing their housing in content droughts such as right now where a lot of people are unsubbed until the expansion.

The problem we're facing is that the FC system is a bit too loose atm, and that's allowing people to accrue a bunch of land. I think that's an exploit, others disagree, YMMV.

[worldofneil]

The problem we're facing is that the FC system is a bit too loose atm, and that's allowing people to accrue a bunch of land.

Well right now SE allow 1 service account to own 9 houses on a world (1 personal and 8 FC - the temporary FC limitation was removed after only a week) so that's what SE have said is allowed. I know isn't what people want to hear, but the fact they actually removed the temporary FC limitations suggests that for Square Enix it is "working as intended".

I don't know how much of a dent it'll make on other worlds, but on the world I'm on the 1440* extra houses added in 6.1 might actually be enough (small houses anyway), especially as they will probably be a new server per datacentre too, each with their own housing so that'll distribute people better too. We always have a few small houses available and whilst they have that invisible timer, everyone I know who's actively tried to get a house has managed to get one within a few days.

*That's assuming they add the same number of wards as they have in the other housing areas right now. This figure will be higher if they add more wards everywhere.

[Bladehawk]

SE has told us Ishgard will have the same number of wards/plots as other housing zones. I did not see anything about new worlds other then the new dc in Australia and possibly again in 7.0. When you mention new worlds per dc is that from something you saw posted or just some hope on your part?