Quote Originally Posted by k99 View Post
The data falls in line consistently across most servers where roughly 30% of all houses are FC houses including potential "shell" FCs, with 70% being allocated to personal houses. As such it is safe to conclude that as of right now personal houses greatly outnumbers fc houses. Since this data has been pulled directly from lodestone, it has relatively high accuracy for a large scale representation. It is nearly impossible to know the use rate of a house since nobody can monitor a house 24/7.
According to the Bancho survery, Balmung has about 3500 total FCs. 2,245 FCs already have houses. That leaves about 1,255 FCs without a house. Not all will qualify (size, rank, etc) but many will. 18 wards of 60 plots are FC only. That's 1,080 FC only plots for some amount less than 1255 FCs on that server. Most servers are likely going to have ratios have less than 2 to 1 when it comes to FCs without a house to FC-only plots in the new wards.

I think that is going to greatly change FC plans when the servers come up. Instead of waiting until the last minute, they would be wise to get in as many tickets from FC members as they can in order to make other FCs look elsewhere.

Whereas when it comes to private plots, wow - I wouldn't be surprised if smalls have 100 tickets and larges have upwards of 500. There's simply so few to go around. This is clearly SE's way of saying "houses were really meant for FCs or players that have been with the game since housing first came out."