Housing crisis is to close to real life.

[Seraphor]

It kinda sounds like you are forgetting appartments, rooms, inn, the split between wards outside and house interiors, the window in Kugane and Crystarium Inns... then... you come with a wrong pretext.

I'm not forgetting anything. Those are all permanently loaded and available zones, that fill a fixed and accounted for space on the World servers. Even apartments and FC quarters are limited. (they also don't take up as much space as large houses or external wards) And the inn room is the same model for all players, just like places like the Solar in the Rising Stones/Waking sands, it's essentially a shared zone even if you don't see anyone else there, so it requires far less live data transfer.
To make housing 'instanced' like that for everyone, they need to allow for unlimited instances, which is only possible via the Instance servers, which is what requires a duty queue.

Basically, the cost for having housing "instances" as they currently exist without a duty queue (they're not 'instances' in the games technical vocabulary, they're just zones) is that they are limited in supply.

[Eldevern]

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If I can follow you about the wards are probably (most likely) persistant, it is false for interiors : they all have loading delay.

Wards are a far too heavy concept considering how ghost town it is. Instancied housing is lighter.

There's something crazy to see the current system with
- in-ward gardens
- houses interiors
- rooms
- appartments
- storehouse (justified to compensate the fact we can lose house but available with appartments too)

and people say extended appartements with a garden (Kugane/Crystarium concept mixed with appartments technical bases) are impossible. The excuse is just simply technically false. Almost 3/4 of flats are still open. They have the "logical"(technical) availability. People don't use them because... it is even less than a little house.

The current concept in FFXIV is the most heaviest and the less efficient system available since it's full of -concurrent- redundancies.

The only thing everyone agree is SE wants neighborood and some kind of reward feeling. But the result is full of flaws.

A ghost-town-as-a-call-for-RMT is not exactly what I call a good concept. For me, their system is just throwing the server ressources to garbage.

[Seraphor]

If I can follow you about the wards are probably (most likely) persistant, it is false for interiors : they all have loading delay.

Wards are a far too heavy concept considering how ghost town it is. Instancied housing is lighter.

There's something crazy to see the current system with
- in-ward gardens
- houses interiors
- rooms
- appartments
- storehouse (justified to compensate the fact we can lose house but available with appartments too)

and people say extended appartements with a garden (Kugane/Crystarium concept mixed with appartments technical bases) are impossible. The excuse is just simply technically false. Almost 3/4 of flats are still open. They have the "logical"(technical) availability. People don't use them because... it is even less than a little house.

The current concept in FFXIV is the most heaviest and the less efficient system available since it's full of -concurrent- redundancies.

The only thing everyone agree is SE wants neighborood and some kind of reward feeling. But the result is full of flaws.

A ghost-town-as-a-call-for-RMT is not exactly what I call a good concept. For me, their system is just throwing the server ressources to garbage.

Housing interiors are always preloaded, ready to be rendered. And yes, you can directly follow players in and out of houses. They are always there, taking up fixed space on the world servers. This is why there is no duty queue between, them.

I don't know who's saying apartments with gardens or expansion options would be impossible, because they wouldn't. They would require more server space, which they can always add, but it wouldn't be unlimited capacity, that true instanced housing would require.

[Eldevern]

Housing interiors are always preloaded, ready to be rendered. And yes, you can directly follow players in and out of houses.

Of course the call is already done when you follow someone...

If you are the first : you have variable delay.

Friendly technical reminder, the rendering (3D) is exclusively client side (FFIXV is not available as pre-rendered as a service). Server side is more or less a memory allocation, conditions treatment and I/O processing. And... in fact, everything is instance, only the duration of the existence change (persistant vs on-demand).

Interiors are "on-demand", wards are persistent. This is the reason why if you left the game inside an appartment/room/house you come back outside.

I do know programming OOP, SQL, UML, UE4 and so. Then, please, stop to imagine I'm a noob, I've practiced. I do know what I'm talking about.