Open plea to the Devs

[Jojoya]

I'm not sure why you're so against removing gardening from housing unless you make most of your gil from selling gardening items. .

I'm not against removing gardening from housing. I'm not certain why you're getting that impression.

What I said was access to gardening is not mandatory for crafting.

I've also pointed out in other places that based on what information has been shared so far about Island Sanctuary, the farming there will not be the same as the gardening in the housing districts so players shouldn't get their hopes up that they'll be able to grow the same items.

If SE wants to add the current gardening to instanced locations so all players can have access, great. We've had no indication they're interested in doing that.

As for the lottery, a lot of us are tired of band-aids. We want to see working solutions.

NO! Not instanced housing! More housing-instances! I dont want to be alone at my house. ESO`s housingsystem sucks.
Why cant the Devs simply make more Instances, now that they see how many new players are there.

More wards will not put more players into your ward where you can see them. If anything, it spreads them out thinner as there's a greater chance they'll pick someone else's ward instead of yours.

There was no consideration for what makes real life neighborhoods feel active and populated when the wards were designed. It's not the presence of houses that does it. It's the need to be doing things in the neighborhoods that creates foot and vehicle traffic so can see others passing through.

Ward design does not generate foot traffic. Owners, tenants and friends get to teleport directly to the owner's house. Need to be in another part of the ward? Players tend to use the Aethernet shards to teleport around instead of walking through the ward. Need to use a Marketboard? There are 7 scattered around every every ward/subdivisions so you usually don't have to walk more than one house over to reach the one nearest your house. The only houses generating foot traffic are the RP venues and they're generally just open a few hours a week.

Unless players are given more reason to be in the wards (not inside their houses where they can't be seen) and the number of wards reduced (not increased) so more players are forced into each ward, they're never going feel populated. We'd be better off with instanced housing so at least every player who wants a house could get one.