Stop complaining. You wanted this.

[Drakengarde]

The reason there are more personal plots than FC plots is because there has never been much demand from FCs.

We had two ward additions where SE implemented a personal purchase moratorium - 4.2 (number of plots increased by 50%) and 5.1 (plots increased by 16%). All those plots left open for FCs and they did not fill even with many plots being taken by relocators (both FC and personal).

The 4.2 addition saw plots remain vacant even after the personal purchase moratorium was lifted until close to the end of that year on most worlds (and JP worlds still had vacant plots left into the next year).

The 5.1 wards had fewer plots remain vacant (probably because a smaller of number of plots added and a growing player base thanks to the Shadowbringers hype) but there were still a fair number of plots left on most worlds (Balmung is Balmung and a couple of Aether worlds also filled faster if I remember correctly) when the personal purchase moratorium ended. That's when they filled up.

The split is 30/70 because that's how demand has fallen out in practice. I did expect SE to weight ward distribution for FCs higher than 30% (I was expecting 40-50%) but not 75%. Most worlds do not have that many legitimate FCs looking for houses. All SE has done is opened the door for RMT to grab an even greater number of plots despite the lottery. Those who want a personal house are going to be left no option but going through RMT now because SE handed over a load of houses to RMT on a silver platter with this mistake.

If FC was that concerned about making certain actual FCs could get a house, they should have done their research and split the wards on a world by world basis from the start. There's no use reserving 5400 plots for FCs on a world that only has 1000 active FCs with at least 4 members but no house yet. That forces players into leaving their current FCs and forming new ones with the help of friends just to get a house. It lets RMT move in with their swarms of disposable characters to buy up all those houses that could be going to genuine players.

It is idiocy.

I can only hope SE is prepared to actively research all the FCs obtaining houses with suspicious FC masters and membership to slam the door not just on RMT but those who buy from RMT. RMT won't get anywhere if players actively fear they'll lose their accounts. Right now that fear does not exist because SE does nothing.

People do get plenty of houses legit ways by earning gil through crafting, gambling, venues, etc There is one popular crafter I know of that has billions of gil and has been around since ARR from the very beginning. People enjoy getting fc houses for different reasons. Some love to decorate, some like having beautiful locations, others may enjoy doing the workshops everyone is different. And the new implementation of the 30 day fc leadership transfer will curb a great majority of plot resell

[Jojoya]

People do get plenty of houses legit ways by earning gil through crafting, gambling, venues, etc There is one popular crafter I know of that has billions of gil and has been around since ARR from the very beginning. People enjoy getting fc houses for different reasons. Some love to decorate, some like having beautiful locations, others may enjoy doing the workshops everyone is different. And the new implementation of the 30 day fc leadership transfer will curb a great majority of plot resell

I'm not referring to actual players who use houses in ways intended and allowed by SE.

I'm talking about resellers. That is not allowed by SE.

The 30 day wait before FC Master can be transferred is annoyance, not something that will put a dent into reselling. The resellers had already planned to just delete the characters with FC Master to force the transfer to a member with less than 30 days (until it was discovered today that will autodisband the FC). They're not going to have a problem with leaving that character idle until the 30 days has passed. It might mean one less character active on that specific account but it doesn't stop them from purchasing on their other accounts, nor from transferring FC Master between characters on various account as long as their 30 day period had passed (since they have to wait the 30 days regardless to attempt the lottery). There's one possible change to FC purchases listed in the Lodestone Housing Guide that might be a big hindrance to RMT but considering there's also directly conflicting information on the same page of the guide, it's hard to know which is accurate.

The real obstacle to RMT at this point is the lottery. The more they need to compete against other FCs, the smaller their chances of winning. On the other hand, that also means the smaller the chances that legitimate FCs will win as well since that competition only appears in the absence of housing. Since SE saw fit to make sure there's an abundance of FC plots available on most worlds for the time being, RMT is in a good position to pick up a fair number.