Why neighbourhoods ?

[Oizen]

Because excluding 95% of the playerbase from this system is apparently justifiable because some players like to pretend they're in a neighborhood.


Yes people actually defend this system and this is their argument.

Did you just assume that there is no one socializing in a ward among all data centers, and all servers, therefore it's fine to delete it, and turn housing to solo private instance?
Why are you so eager in dismissing the current system that we have, and switching to other completely new untested system that might upset more people? Just because it's working in Elder Scrolls Online doesnt mean it would work in FFXIV.

Instead of completely destroying it and built something new. Why not just improve what we already have. make the wards grows as the server population needs. It's 2022, there is no way their servers unable to handle more than 24.

We've been "improving" what we have since 2.0.

It hasn't worked.

[Heh]

Because excluding 95% of the playerbase from this system is apparently justifiable because some players like to pretend they're in a neighborhood.


Yes people actually defend this system and this is their argument.



We've been "improving" what we have since 2.0.

It hasn't worked.

They haven't been improving, lottery isn't improvement, it's just workaround. What I'd call improvement is increasing the wards size to 64 for every housing zone at the very least

[Oizen]

They haven't been improving, lottery isn't improvement, it's just workaround. What I'd call improvement is increasing the wards size to 64 for every housing zone at the very least

I prefer permanent solutions instead of chasing a problem but maybe I'm a minority in that.

The last thing they want it to turn housing into garrisons like in wow and basically isolate players. In neighborhoods you are still in the public eye so to say. The last thing SE would want to do is emulate wow and have players isolated alone in instanced areas. If you want the housing neighborhoods to be alive then spend more time there and grt involved. Host your own events in them. Do something besides crying on the forums and demanding a solution be handed to you.

They're not alive now. Even when RP venues hold a party, they're INSIDE the house, inside an instance. The actual neighborhood is still a ghost town.
I don't understand why you think things would be different. Any isolation is done on a player by player preference, not by a system itself.

[Heh]

I prefer permanent solutions instead of chasing a problem but maybe I'm a minority in that.



They're not alive now. Even when RP venues hold a party, they're INSIDE the house, inside an instance. The actual neighborhood is still a ghost town.
I don't understand why you think things would be different. Any isolation is done on a player by player preference, not by a system itself.

It's a permanent solutions if the wards can grow as needed.