Shell FCs are a bigger problem than we think...

[KikiTia]

After lookign through the data at https://www.xivhousing.com/ (which has greatly improved since the last time I saw this), and using https://www.xivhousing.com/2021-cens...enters-regions to slice the data, of the roughly 120k FC houses worldwide, roughly 23k of those are shell FC houses. Shell FCs being FCs that have 1-3 members usually created for the sole purpose of getting a house, while a legitimate FC is 4+ members (which is the total number of signatures needed to create an FC btw).

That's roughly 20% of all FC houses worldwide are shell FC houses.

Like I have been saying for a long time, the shell FCs need to be dealt with because they are exacerbating the housing problem. Of all the servers, Chocobo is the poster child for this problem with 891 of the 2613 FC houses belonging to a shell FC.

While we definitely need more wards, the shell FC issue CANNOT continued to be ignored because all it's doing is making this entire housing thing harder than it really needs to be.

It's been said a million times but I'll say it again, they wouldn't even have to worry about this if we had instanced housing and there were enough houses for everyone to have their own.

[Heh]

It's been said a million times but I'll say it again, they wouldn't even have to worry about this if we had instanced housing and there were enough houses for everyone to have their own.

Nope, They just need to make the wards grows as the server population needs. It's 2022, there is no way their servers unable to handle more than 24.

[Valfreyja]

It's also been said that instanced housing is impossible without reconfiguring the entire game.

The Instance servers cover every dungeon, trial, raid, and other bit of instanced content.

You want to strain those servers even further by adding tens of thousands of instanced housing on top of all that?

It's not feasible.