Why do FCs get 75% of the wards?

[Imora]

Well I wish everyone who wants one luck this week in the Lotto.

300 houses for probably 10k+ people. Good effing luck.

Guess I make a shell FC.

[xenahawk]

So let me get this straight, any joe schmoe (like me lol) can make a new fc and they're good to go in this 75%? This doesn't sound too bad tbh unless I'm missing something.

No because there are some prerequisites for fc's to buy a house some having to do with length of time in an fc so anyone who already basically has a "bogus" fc will be able to. If someone tries to make a new fc now they will have to wait. But again thats sort of promoting bad behavior.

[Snowdove]

300 houses for probably 10k+ people. Good effing luck.

Guess I make a shell FC.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that. There's no way under the sun I'd get a personal house.


How much easier is it for a FC to get a plot of land?

[PMSJordan]

300 houses for probably 10k+ people. Good effing luck.

Guess I make a shell FC.

Nothing better than becoming part of the problem that I've seen many people use to discredit FC housing. Enjoy your Fake FC by yourself.

[Lily_Skye]

this change only encourages rmt reselling

SE please...

[Yodada]

Yeah, I've been thinking about that. There's no way under the sun I'd get a personal house.
How much easier is it for a FC to get a plot of land?

Well if you didnt have already something prepared. At least you or 3 Alts or 4 Alts which has to be in the FC for a minimum of 30 days. Once setup you can go for it.

If you are lone Ranger you can even setup 2 FCs with your own Accout. Or create even more FCs with just an 10 USD Starter Edition for an Alt-throw-away-Account (heck you can abuse this one for Gold Feathers as well with Recruit a Friend) which then can create a few more additional Alts for your "Main Account FCs". Just create them within the included free 30 days gametime and forget them after you invite them into your FCs. They will still count to the 4 people buying threshold even after not logging in after years.

[grinkdaboy]

what in the love of all that is good were they thinking?

it just encourages people to make shell FCs

[TaleraRistain]

Also? What happens to those of us in wards now designated as FC housing, do we get ejected from our private homes?

This is a good question. I've had my personal medium since before prices were equalized across all servers and I got it for 8mil because my server was incredibly small. I don't want to lose that just because it gets flagged as an FC ward. They could try to move us to the new wards but what happens if there are more personal houses at my plot number than those available in private wards? Hopefully they are going to grandfather us in and have this just be something that takes effect on a new purchase.

The number of FC wards does seem excessive, though, and does seem like it will contribute to the problem of shell FCs. Not every small FC is a shell FC, though, and it's disappointing to see the opinions on this thread that we don't deserve what we've worked for just because we're small now. Mine started a lot larger than just myself and a couple others and then people left.

[Stormpeaks]

This is what people wanted, everyone was all up in arms, blaming bots for the terrible system, saying it was their fault, that 6.1 was going to save housing.

Now this is what people get, they get the bot situation, but x100.

Also this excuse of "FC houses hold more people so its fair there's a majority of them" is absolutely baseless, 80% of fc houses are empty, inside and out, used for submarines and abandoned left to rot outside of that purpose, its ridiculous that some people think this will encourage interactions between fcs when those fcs are dummy fcs to begin with, just made for housing for a single person as personal FC.

[Violet_Galaxy]

I kinda wish I would of used bots and macros to get a house but noooo, SE will fix this I said. My account will be put at risk I said. I kinda want to set up a fake fc as well and play dirty too since SE doesn't want to do anything about this but screw over people that actually want a house.