Only 6 Personal Wards

[StarKorg]

(Can't figure out how to quote all in one message apologies)

In regards to Risver - Ah I didn't know the exact numbers thank you, I did intend "all future housing" to include plots on old wards but I see how that may have been unclear.

In regards to Divine - Hopefully they'll offer some more news on this, but I personally want a house to be able to decorate the yard too so unless they'd incorporate a garden into these private chamber style apartments/fc rooms then it wouldn't be a solution for everyone unfortunately as I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting a garden.

In regards to Layla - They should definitely offer an explanation, unless these rumours of the "servers not being able to handle it" (due to real-world circumstances on hardware) are true and act as these explanations. Definitely need some more clarity on this.

Generally -
I had a little think of it and came up with some potential (albeit small) additions to my thoughts on the situation as a whole.
- This first one's perhaps a little bit of a hot take (and maybe something I don't see happening) but a large portion of the Large and Medium houses on the wards going forward should have been reserved for FCs (or at least a large number of them) rather than every single small on the ward. Say instead of the 18 full wards being taken up for FCs it would be the case of 100% of the Large/Mediums and 50% of the Smalls on those wards were reserved for FCs, chosen at random for variety. Unless your FC is very new or very small, you'd probably want (and could maybe afford) a Medium or Large house for your FC's estate.

- Houses should be limited to either one per service account or one per data centre. (This is on the assumption it isn't currently one house per data centre)
This is entirely dependant on how many people feel the need to own a house on multiple servers (I personally believe that one house per service account is enough, but I generally only play on a small handful of characters), but given that we have a little bit of a "housing crisis" it should really be one person per house. But with the addition of this, any alternate accounts that share the same server on said service account should be able to at least teleport (if not be able to decorate/act like a tennant) to their account's house provided they reside on the same server.

Of course other opinions are more than welcome and feel free to share them this is just one stance on how to at least free up a few small plots in the future.

[LaylaTsarra]

Houses should be limited to either one per service account or one per data centre

Honestly this is something I thought might be under consideration by SE prior to the rules release given the number of new people joining the game but they elected not to go that route. Perhaps seeing the number of people actually bidding on houses might offer more insight into the demand given they can only bid on one house.

I'm particularly interested in seeing what some of the prime location plots will get in the way of lotto entries on a server like Balmung.