Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
The numbers for personals are not set in stone. Every single release of a new city - every - has come with FC only provisions for a few months, until this one. So, you are in fact, better off than in the past.

When Shirogane was released there were zero personals until the FCs had settled.

Would you prefer 6 wards for personal, or ZERO for personal?


(and yeah, SE dropped the ball with 1-19 for FCs in the old cities IMO, but it balances out that some Empy were there for personals, something we didn't see previously with the 100% FC only for a few months rules.)
The problem is that we are seeing personal plots dwindle to almost a trickle by the end of round 2 of the lottery whereas more than half of the plots in FC wards remain unbidded. Which means that the free company demand is just not there.

If we go by the logic that the FCs strategy for plots are as below:

1st round => Most FCs aim for large, very few large remains, plenty of medium and small still exist
2nd round (we are here now) => Most FCs aim for medium, very few medium remain, plenty of small still exist
3rd round => Remaining FCs aim for remaining smalls, plenty of smalls still remain

At the very latest, the FC wards should be opened up to private bidders by the end of the 3rd round. To say that there are still FCs demand after that would be nonsensical as they had plenty of chance to go for a guaranteed plot and if they failed to do so, it's their own fault for not doing so.

Also, I suspect that by the end of round 3, there would literally be less than 10 private plots remaining in each standard world (Let's not talk about Materia here since it is an outlier).