Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

[Jojoya]

Yes and the delay of personal housing sales for months only enabled these people to do what they did. I have a couple characters on Spriggan and got my FC house there and the houses in that ward sat open for months and months so much so that i was able to buy a personal right next to my FC in Shirogane on the beach when they finally opened personals for sale.

Have no clue how the housing will play out on Materia but on Spriggan and Twintania housing wards were empty for the longest time.

Materia will also be operating under the new system where some wards are FC and others are personal. That's going to help things fill faster.

I'm still very concerned about YoshiP's comment during the Live Letter that there will be more FC wards than personal wards. If he was just referring to Empyreum, I get it even if I still don't agree. They want to make certain any FCs ready to buy can get a house because of FC content that requires a house to access. If he was referring to all housing districts, ouch.

The demand for FC housing (at least by genuine FCs) just is not that high. If it was, we wouldn't have seen new wards in the past remain mostly empty until the personal moratorium was lifted. I remember doing a census back in 2019 a few weeks before 5.1 was released and seeing all the empty plots still left on Spriggan and Twintania (not to mention the wards that were being filled up by the shells FCs).

Hopefully the weighting toward FCs will only last the first 4 lottery periods, and we'll see some FC wards switched to personal after that (when 6.15 would release if it's the usual 6-7 weeks we've seen in the past). It's demoralizing when there are plots sitting vacant and there are players are ready to buy but can't because SE has locked access to FCs that have already purchased a house if they want Certainly SE should keep some wards reserved for FCs at all times but when FCs are historically about 30% of the house owners, it should be 30% of wards.

[Eraden]

Materia will also be operating under the new system where some wards are FC and others are personal. That's going to help things fill faster.

I'm still very concerned about YoshiP's comment during the Live Letter that there will be more FC wards than personal wards. If he was just referring to Empyreum, I get it even if I still don't agree. They want to make certain any FCs ready to buy can get a house because of FC content that requires a house to access. If he was referring to all housing districts, ouch.

The demand for FC housing (at least by genuine FCs) just is not that high. If it was, we wouldn't have seen new wards in the past remain mostly empty until the personal moratorium was lifted. I remember doing a census back in 2019 a few weeks before 5.1 was released and seeing all the empty plots still left on Spriggan and Twintania (not to mention the wards that were being filled up by the shells FCs).

Hopefully the weighting toward FCs will only last the first 4 lottery periods, and we'll see some FC wards switched to personal after that (when 6.15 would release if it's the usual 6-7 weeks we've seen in the past). It's demoralizing when there are plots sitting vacant and there are players are ready to buy but can't because SE has locked access to FCs that have already purchased a house if they want Certainly SE should keep some wards reserved for FCs at all times but when FCs are historically about 30% of the house owners, it should be 30% of wards.

Are FC and Personal plots going to be separated by ward or on an individual plot level? I have seen no information that would clearly indicate one vs the other. If you have that information, can you tell me where it is?

[Jojoya]

Are FC and Personal plots going to be separated by ward or on an individual plot level? I have seen no information that would clearly indicate one vs the other. If you have that information, can you tell me where it is?

It's what we were told back in November. Wards would be set to either FC or personal, and they will be able to change the ward type during patch maintenances if needed.

Do you honestly think SE is going to go through each and every one of the 518,400 plots that will be in the game come April 12th to decide what type of plot each should be? Do you have any idea how many man hours that would take?

[Eraden]

It's what we were told back in November. Wards would be set to either FC or personal, and they will be able to change the ward type during patch maintenances if needed.

Do you honestly think SE is going to go through each and every one of the 518,400 plots that will be in the game come April 12th to decide what type of plot each should be? Do you have any idea how many man hours that would take?

I was referring to Ishgard only. It wouldn't take very long at all to set up a template for the plots in each ward and then transpose it to every server.

[Jojoya]

I was referring to Ishgard only. It wouldn't take very long at all to set up a template for the plots in each ward and then transpose it to every server.

I haven't seen anything that indicated Empyreum will be treated any differently but you never know with SE. Sometimes they're deliberately vague.

I wish they had provided just a little bit more of the screenshot in the image that was intended to show ward designation in the Lodestone topic. That might have given a clear answer to your question.