Why do FCs get 75% of the wards?

[Illmaeran]

Simply adding more wards is akin to slapping a bandage on a gaping wound. They've increased the number of wards several times in the past and it has changed very little.

Adding more wards increases supply and isn't Supply < Demand the argument everyone's making? Increasing supply will help alleviate the issue.

[dspguy]

I took a peek this morning at some plots in the FC-only areas. Lot of zeros on smalls. Larges have 1-3. I know it is still early, but I expected more people, especially since FCs can have multiple bids - to flood the lottery already.

[Arzalis]

Adding more wards increases supply and isn't Supply < Demand the argument everyone's making? Increasing supply will help alleviate the issue.

It does help.

The issue is they still don't add enough supply. It takes so long for them to add houses they'll never even catch up, let alone keep up.

[Jandor]

I took a peek this morning at some plots in the FC-only areas. Lot of zeros on smalls. Larges have 1-3. I know it is still early, but I expected more people, especially since FCs can have multiple bids - to flood the lottery already.

Most people probably waiting till the final day, try to get their bids in on the least bidded plots.

[Doc_Seraph]

Kupo forgive my ignorance but are there perks to having a huge home (non-FC) besides fluff? I live in a hotel room in Limsa kupo so just wondering I never really tried pushing millions in to a better home lol thank you in advance kupo <3

[technole]

Houses when they first came out in what 2.1 were FCs only for almost a year until they offered to individuals because there were many patches of empty plots. Still that may have been the most controversial decision they ever made in the game because the demand spike along with having to go along with it for years now they hit the reset button back to what they intended just with a larger player base.

[Skivvy]

Kupo forgive my ignorance but are there perks to having a huge home (non-FC) besides fluff? I live in a hotel room in Limsa kupo so just wondering I never really tried pushing millions in to a better home lol thank you in advance kupo <3

Houses for the most part are for fluff, however...

A personal home would give you a garden for cross-breeding items (there is some gil to be had there if you enjoy it). Apartments let you grow things in pots, but no cross-breeding. Can also have a chocobo stable right on your property if you like, but an apartment gives you the same stable access, so no real gain there.

Back to the fluff stuff, a house allows for more items to be placed vs. an apartment. Based on just a small, you can have 200 interior items vs. the 100 of an apartment. I'd happily give up my house if apartments matched the number of items of a small, but I love my decor too much to downsize atm. :X

[Denji]

Honestly the issue would be mostly solved by just limiting each service account to 1 house.


I have no idea why it isn't already that. Bizarre.

[Skivvy]

Honestly the issue would be mostly solved by just limiting each service account to 1 house.


I have no idea why it isn't already that. Bizarre.

I know this gets mentioned fairly often, but I imagine the number of people that have multiple homes is probably on the smaller side of things. Would be interesting to see some actual numbers. I think it mainly boils down to the amount of individual players who want a house faaaar outnumber what these poor little servers are capable of providing, and the current system will never come close to keeping up. I could obviously be completely wrong on that, but who knows!

Something that could possibly help, at least in a small way, would be to allow alts on the same service account to fully share any owned home. I imagine that would help curb the desire for a lot of people to get homes on their alt characters as well.

[Denji]

I know this gets mentioned fairly often, but I imagine the number of people that have multiple homes is probably on the smaller side of things. Would be interesting to see some actual numbers. I think it mainly boils down to the amount of individual players who want a house faaaar outnumber what these poor little servers are capable of providing, and the current system will never come close to keeping up. I could obviously be completely wrong on that, but who knows!

Something that could possibly help, at least in a small way, would be to allow alts on the same service account to fully share any owned home. I imagine that would help curb the desire for a lot of people to get homes on their alt characters as well.

I'm curious if that is the case. Nearly every FC I joined had people offering spare houses to fellow members to live with full access to place/furnish things whereever and however we wanted. Typically because they got in-game married and were now sharing a larger one.