In Game Housing Crisis

[Illmaeran]

My other concern with "soon" is that I don't think they are going to adjust anything housing wise till 6.18 at the earliest

Do we have an estimated timeline on 6.18? I want to start my Custom Deliveries and help Tataru take over the world!

[VerdeLuck]

The only way to really fix housing in this game at this point is to either scrap the neighborhood system and go instanced (not gonna happen), or just drop a massive number of wards on the servers so that every player who wants and can afford a house can reasonably own one. Lottery systems, Apartments, FC Rooms, FC housing, they don't really do much other than kick it down the road for a bit and give them time for a solution.
They've been trying to come up with one for almost 10 years now, so what are they going to do to fix the housing issues in this game? what's their big idea that they've been buying time with small Band-Aid fixes all this time for? They've been advertising the game with housing as a primary feature but it's just not available.
They're probably going to lean into Island Sanctuaries being the fix for the housing issue, but it's probably going to be like every other fix they've tried, grossly insufficient to really do anything but lessen the pressure for a bit, and hope we forget until 7.1 when they add Thavnarian housing or whatever.

[Themarvin]

All these crisis's... come on? Instanced housing as in INSTANCED.... is some of the worst ever kind of housing, mostly due to the limitations it would put on how many can visit the house as for one thing that is.

Get an FC with a bunch of friends and use the FC house as your houses with each your private room in it is a nice work around as well.

[EthanXdeath]

All these crisis's... come on? Instanced housing as in INSTANCED.... is some of the worst ever kind of housing, mostly due to the limitations it would put on how many can visit the house as for one thing that is.

Get an FC with a bunch of friends and use the FC house as your houses with each your private room in it is a nice work around as well.

You just don't get it, I've read a few of your posts in other threads. You really don't get it. A FC room is not the same as a house, no where near the same.

[Big_Bap]

You just don't get it, I've read a few of your posts in other threads. You really don't get it. A FC room is not the same as a house, no where near the same.

Exterior aside, a small FC house used to be exactly like an apartment/FC room. Are you new?

[EthanXdeath]

Exterior aside, a small FC house used to be exactly like an apartment/FC room. Are you new?

Started in 4.3

[Themarvin]

You just don't get it, I've read a few of your posts in other threads. You really don't get it. A FC room is not the same as a house, no where near the same.

I have both, and either is nice, your concern and critisism should be more constructive, we don't need or want more wards, rather increase the size of the current wards... and let us finally dump any remains of whatever PS4 standard and PS3 issues to how it can be done instead.

The mist alone could host many more houses and have a large half circular cove to the left and right of current area instead, preserving old property of course, but adding in more housing the same way instead, as making these areas not just small areas we currently got, but more city like in general instead, provide GC stuff and more as well.

[EthanXdeath]

I have both, and either is nice, your concern and critisism should be more constructive, we don't need or want more wards, rather increase the size of the current wards... and let us finally dump any remains of whatever PS4 standard and PS3 issues to how it can be done instead.

The mist alone could host many more houses and have a large half circular cove to the left and right of current area instead, preserving old property of course, but adding in more housing the same way instead, as making these areas not just small areas we currently got, but more city like in general instead, provide GC stuff and more as well.

That's just adding more wards in a roundabout way, not everyone would want what you are proposing, plus with housing wards already being dead anyways, I don't know how the idea you're suggesting alleviates this in any form. Sounds like it'd end up being an even LARGER dead area. I'm pretty sure console isn't holding housing back in any way shape or form. As for my criticism of the housing situation it's pretty straight forward, as it stands it's awful, lottery fixed absolutely nothing, we simply need more wards or instanced housing or both, the FC/personal ward split is awful, there should be more larges and mediums per ward. Smalls are relatively unpopular in both FC and Personal wards. Apartments/fc rooms don't constitute as an appropriate alternative for a vast majority of players (we want our own personal houses, not a FC house where maybe someone's idea isn't implemented fully, i.e. 5 friends in a FC try to combine all their ideas at least 1 person is going to be slightly unhappy, but our own space that we either decorate or have someone decorate). As for being in a FC completely by yourself, that doesn't sound pleasant, since this game is about being social.

[Big_Bap]

Started in 4.3

Makes sense.

[Amenara]

Do we have an estimated timeline on 6.18? I want to start my Custom Deliveries and help Tataru take over the world!

Probably in the June/July timeframe? Not too sure since I think it will be dependent on getting DC travel working.