Solution to the Housing Problem: Instanced Housing!

[Roehann]

Did you even read the OP's first sentence? There was nothing at all mentioned about having a free house, just that they change it to instanced housing instead of the crap we have had. They clearly said you save up the gil for the house type you want to buy, not get it for free.

And while we are at it, why are you wanting to keep an existing system that is broken, aged, technologically taxing on servers and makes no sense at all? Instancing makes so much more sense. Stop trying to improve a turd by making a bigger pile.

I did misread the OP posts. I thought it was another give me a free instance house..

As far as a broken system. It's not broken, or over taxing the severs to our knowledge. Instance housing would cause server strain just like our current wards.

If SE added more housing districts, wards, plots then I am sure everyone wouldn't be wanting instance housing. The bottom line is everyone wants the ability to get a house and right now they can't. It's got nothing to do with whether it's instance or not, it's a supply and demand feature.

Can't you think of at least six places that would make great housing districts in the story? I can. I think they just need to add more as the story progresses and that would solve their problems. Instance housing like Apartments and FC rooms aren't as nice as a ward is in my opinion.. Now, maybe a mix of them both.. Make apartments so they can have a garden, that might solve some of the issues with people wanting instance housings, while keeping the wards.

Different levels of Apartments, different levels of plots.. a combination of both would work out and help everyone.. but doing away with the wards in my opinion is a bad thing.

[YukikoKurosawa]

I did misread the OP posts. I thought it was another give me a free instance house..

As far as a broken system. It's not broken, or over taxing the severs to our knowledge. Instance housing would cause server strain just like our current wards.

If SE added more housing districts, wards, plots then I am sure everyone wouldn't be wanting instance housing. The bottom line is everyone wants the ability to get a house and right now they can't. It's got nothing to do with whether it's instance or not, it's a supply and demand feature.

Can't you think of at least six places that would make great housing districts in the story? I can. I think they just need to add more as the story progresses and that would solve their problems. Instance housing like Apartments and FC rooms aren't as nice as a ward is in my opinion.. Now, maybe a mix of them both.. Make apartments so they can have a garden, that might solve some of the issues with people wanting instance housings, while keeping the wards.

Different levels of Apartments, different levels of plots.. a combination of both would work out and help everyone.. but doing away with the wards in my opinion is a bad thing.

Just add instanced housing it would fix the problem. FFS.

[Greyhawk]

I did misread the OP posts. I thought it was another give me a free instance house..

As far as a broken system. It's not broken, or over taxing the severs to our knowledge. Instance housing would cause server strain just like our current wards.

If SE added more housing districts, wards, plots then I am sure everyone wouldn't be wanting instance housing. The bottom line is everyone wants the ability to get a house and right now they can't. It's got nothing to do with whether it's instance or not, it's a supply and demand feature.

Can't you think of at least six places that would make great housing districts in the story? I can. I think they just need to add more as the story progresses and that would solve their problems. Instance housing like Apartments and FC rooms aren't as nice as a ward is in my opinion.. Now, maybe a mix of them both.. Make apartments so they can have a garden, that might solve some of the issues with people wanting instance housings, while keeping the wards.

Different levels of Apartments, different levels of plots.. a combination of both would work out and help everyone.. but doing away with the wards in my opinion is a bad thing.

It is actually very taxing. Yoshi-P has repeatedly stated that more hardware is need to expand this, right along with the same sentiments every expansion they have put out since FFXIV. It's the reason why we can't have nice things - more storage, more glamour storage, more housing, more this and that. The ONLY reason we have housing in its current state is two reasons:

- Yoshi-P like the neighborhood feeling and doesn't want to get rid of that, even though I have been subbed for over 2300 days, and had a house since Shirogane Extreme, I have yet to see a neighbor. At my house, my FC house, or any of my friends' houses.
- The original set up was intended for Free Companies, because housing was originally only designed for that purpose. When they included personal housing, this was the major downfall they have experienced since that day.

The benefits of instancing, I have outlined already a few times the benefits and how it could work with an existing system with migration, ward and neighborhood feelings included, just for Yoshi-P's pride.

Instancing is the smartest way to ever build something this large - that's been proven in so many ways, with so many games. It's not near as taxing when you can actually reduce the numbers of how many times we already enter an instanced area just in housing.

The only reason we are where we are, is the director's pride. That's it.