Quote Originally Posted by Fybrile View Post
One of the more salient points I can take away from all this is that there is a woeful lack of data. We really don't know what percent of players (more still, how many characters) have/don't have a personal house.
It's not hard to work out approximately. Lucky Bancho gives a fairly good idea of population. The number of houses are fixed, paissahouse shows how many are available and the housing census shows how many are FC/Personal.

But it's also not really useful. Of more use is how many people are currently in the lottery.

On siren, your server, 852 people are bidding for smalls in this round. So that's a pretty strong indication of the people who desire a house. We know the population is about 35,000 so, ~2.5% of people on Siren currently want a home. The other sites show 8.8% have one.

Of the remainder,
* some will have homes,
* some won't be interested,
* some will have stopped playing in the last two months, and
* some will have thought it still too hard and not bother.

Errors in the Bancho numbers make up the rest.

I think ~10% interested in housing sounds about right tbh.

SE can make these people happier, mostly. Well as much as people can be happy.