Bidding is a terrible bandaid. . .

[Drakengarde]

The lottery has been amazingly successful, keep up the good work SE!

haha I love your name

[Rhea_]

Explain why people who is at work... who sleep... am not on in the odd hours of the game server and DC dependent should not have the same chance to get a house as you?

I’m a working man too. Yet I got multiple houses legit. FC house, private and relocations on multiple servers.

In terms of people using bots, SE should crack down on it but not screwing over the players. This system hasn’t improved anything for the legit players.

I have gone on record multiple times here if housing is important, you should consider moving to a different server, so.

It gives a illusion like any lottery “maybe I will win this time!”

It still rng and still bad.
Instanced is only solution imo.

[Themarvin]

I’m a working man too. Yet I got multiple houses legit. FC house, private and relocations on multiple servers.

In terms of people using bots, SE should crack down on it but not screwing over the players. This system hasn’t improved anything for the legit players.

I have gone on record multiple times here if housing is important, you should consider moving to a different server, so.

It gives a illusion like any lottery “maybe I will win this time!”

It still rng and still bad.
Instanced is only solution imo.

Because it was the same before... a lottery of neverending clicking causing problems to people... now can just go click.. sit and relax, if you want to justify and or soothe up on problems, you should focus on people with multiple housing on several servers which is why a limitation to 1 house 1 FC max per account per DC, whether like it or not, 100's of players would be able to get a home that way.

Then we are talking... everyone that keep babling about instanced housing don't even know better either and if you could make physical placed housing on servers a thing that work in old and ancient MMO's with being able to have it implented in the actual full game, then I can clearly say that FFXIV never was designed for or proper capable for housing due to the focus on having to focus on limited systems such as consoles, which should had been a barrier broken alone with when got the PS4 and end of PS3.

You can't just add more wards to this game, the Datacenters and Servers is not something you run in your basement, it is highly complex systems for starters.

Getting rid of the gardens and putting in presets for gardens so you can only chose for those presets ONLY when setting up the house plot would solve ALOT, due to that the server does not need to have gardens loaded all the time in the wards, as it would just be same old same old and each house inside IS already a featured instance, it is gardens you need to instance and you could do that alone by when you enter inside the entran of the plot it would load for the people inside of the fence around the garden, but from the outside it would all look like here is the mist, shirogane, Goblet.... Empyrium... Lavenderbeds and then that would be it... and the best solution, likewise save alot of server ressources to place in the amount of additional wards instead of having it loaded all the time.

[Sawamura]

When people keep said instanced fix house problem with supplement. Do they realise SE would never do that with FFXIV? Cause that is like revamp whole ward system+create new servers the cost is way too high from benefit for SE to do that.

[Rhea_]

You can't just add more wards to this game, the Datacenters and Servers is not something you run in your basement, it is highly complex systems for starters.

No shit. Why do you think I’m suggesting instanced housing?

[Rhea_]

When people keep said instanced fix house problem with supplement. Do they realise SE would never do that with FFXIV? Cause that is like revamp whole ward system+create new servers the cost is way too high from benefit for SE to do that.

I don’t think they ever will, I’m simply pointing out a solution, or saying we will ever get it. I mean look at apartment which is probably closest thing and it was more or less abandoned after implementation.

[UkcsAlias]

You can't just add more wards to this game, the Datacenters and Servers is not something you run in your basement, it is highly complex systems for starters.

Server power is nothing special on that part. They probably already have this knowledge easily available. Cloning a server on that, is generaly also not too difficult. For a housing region, its very much like a server has to have 24 instances for each ward, and then just maintains its data within that ward. With proper configurations, it should not be an issue to add more there (basicly just increasing an integer). HUD wise it should be relatively easy.

But i think it is simply that housing areas are very expensive relative to the number of people using it. So they realy dont prioritize any investments here, since even if they would double it now, it still wouldnt be enough.

Instancing could only solve 1 issue, which is that every single interior is instanced, forcing less to be up. But in the end, instancing has no peak balancing taking place, and has other issues in which teleporting is not available. This teleport capability is why the wards have to exist in the first place. And something tells me that there is a lot instanced already when people werent able to enter their house during peak hours.