Housing crisis is to close to real life.

[Oxi]

off topic, but...
As someone who worked in the chip industry (in the US) and recently left. COVID was but a small little blip in a huge array of issues. Production is going back up from the COVID -19 dip, but there was always a bit of a shortage. I think there's going to be a shortage for a good few years to come - or forever - unless the workplaces and businesses improve. As an example, during COVID what helped exaggerate this was a Silicon shortage in the US because no one wanted to purify and package it for industry use, simply because it wasn't profitable, and had forced production facilities to order it from across the world.



Anyway, back to housing.

I always liked to argue purely instance based housing (much like BDO for example) where multiple people could own the same physical plot in game, but I know this would take a lot of the magic and immersion from the wards away since every house would be default unless you clicked on the board and chose whose house to visit.

I just don't find the current system indicative of a good experience. The more you dive into the housing world and community of this game, the darker it gets. Real money, bots, autoclickers, auctions on discords and selling for literal billions or trillions of gil. It's low-key kind of disgusting.

What about having both instance and server based housing?

I know many would want to buy up public plots for vanity. A lot of actual game mechanics including storage and gardens are tied to housing and most people will never be able to take part as it is.

So few are the player with housing I can't even find an ff14 wiki with details on what you can do with a house.

[Claviusnex]

What about having both instance and server based housing?

I know many would want to buy up public plots for vanity. A lot of actual game mechanics including storage and gardens are tied to housing and most people will never be able to take part as it is.

So few are the player with housing I can't even find an ff14 wiki with details on what you can do with a house.

My take has always been to have an instanced based housing system in addition to the existing ward system. The ward based system would be frozen and players that really wanted a ward based house could do as they do today to obtain one. The instanced based system would essentially be a plot or range of plots with an exterior and interior space you enter similar to the way you enter apartments. To be honest apartments should have been an instanced house from the beginning since they are by SE's own admission virtually unlimited due to being instanced.