Go Balmung!

[Pablomaldito]

Maybe people should move server?

There's nowhere to go in NA. Personal houses are all taken, and what little comes up in each lottery round ends up with a lot of bidders. Balmung is an extreme case, but in every server in NA houses are getting a hundred or more bidders per lottery round. 1% or below chance of winning is typical. Of course there are exceptions if you have a couple Goblet plots while several other wards' houses are available. Then you may get lucky and only have to bid against 50 other people for the less desirable plots. Now your chance of winning is 2% . So yeah, transferring servers within the NA region to improve your chances of getting a personal house isn't really a reasonable plan. For leaving your friends and FC behind, your reward is an upgrade from near impossible to extremely unlikely.

Personally, I just leveled some alts in the Oceanic servers as well as one of the new Europe servers. I can't visit them on my main character, but at least they're in fantastic locations. For NA, however, the only decent chance of getting a house may be to start a shell FC in one of the less crowded servers and hope that FC houses will still be available in a month.

[Oizen]

They did it, good luck to the winner in a few hours!!

There be people on this forum that are like "yeah there isn't enough demand for more wards"

Maybe people should move server?

I'm on the current "dead" server of Crystal, the same data center as Balmung.

Our houses are hitting 200-400 bids per lottery as well and theres no where to go from here.
Sure I'll jump ship to whenever the expand the datacenter, but even that is just a band-aid.

[Themarvin]

There be people on this forum that are like "yeah there isn't enough demand for more wards"




I'm on the current "dead" server of Crystal, the same data center as Balmung.

Our houses are hitting 200-400 bids per lottery as well and theres no where to go from here.
Sure I'll jump ship to whenever the expand the datacenter, but even that is just a band-aid.

Chances is higher there by 400%

[Oizen]

Chances is higher there by 400%

Oh wow a 0.4% chance vs a 0.1% chance wow game is saved praise yoshi p, buy nft, small indie dev

[Shibi]

There be people on this forum that are like "yeah there isn't enough demand for more wards"

No doubt in my mind there is a clear demand, I think the large number of bids on these properties is proof. Balmung went higher than 1002 in the end and from the screencap I saw of the winner, I believe they are someone genuine who will enjoy their new home.

So, YES! there is a demand for 4 to 5 more personal wards right now to satisfy that demand of about 1000 people (1000 / 60 / 5) maybe as a short term bandaid that would help for a few weeks?

But wards are not great in the long term. Better is that SE hire a systems developer (as they hinted to in the last live letter) to take responsibility of housing, listen to the community, and then take ownership and make it better.

That takes on a lot more than just removing the pent up demand, it also needs a redevelop in many other areas, like availability, Z-Axis, scale, replacable inside walls, possibly ways to link your house to friends in virtual wards, entry through NPCs or doors, rather than teleporting into your yard - and so much more.

Housing can become so much better in the #1 MMO.

[Oizen]

Oh I agree, the system desperately needs a permanent solution and not another bandaid.

[Brygd]

No doubt in my mind there is a clear demand, I think the large number of bids on these properties is proof. Balmung went higher than 1002 in the end and from the screencap I saw of the winner, I believe they are someone genuine who will enjoy their new home.

So, YES! there is a demand for 4 to 5 more personal wards right now to satisfy that demand of about 1000 people (1000 / 60 / 5) maybe as a short term bandaid that would help for a few weeks?

But wards are not great in the long term. Better is that SE hire a systems developer (as they hinted to in the last live letter) to take responsibility of housing, listen to the community, and then take ownership and make it better.

That takes on a lot more than just removing the pent up demand, it also needs a redevelop in many other areas, like availability, Z-Axis, scale, replacable inside walls, possibly ways to link your house to friends in virtual wards, entry through NPCs or doors, rather than teleporting into your yard - and so much more.

Housing can become so much better in the #1 MMO.

Where was hiring a systems developer hinted at in the last live letter? I didn't catch that in the summaries I read.

And ugh, if they're just now hiring a developer, that means nothing until 8.0 at the earliest.

[Shibi]

Where was hiring a systems developer hinted at in the last live letter? None of the summaries I read stated such a thing.

And ugh, if they're just now hiring a developer, that means nothing until 8.0 at the earliest.

Near the end.



Taking the Discord translation - as they are far more skilled at Japanese than me

Miuna : Y "Live System designer would be for content like Island sanctuary, crafting gathering etc"

One assumes and hopes this also includes housing.

[Brygd]

One assumes and hopes this also includes housing.

I really hope you're correct in your assumption. It would be nice.

[Shibi]

I really hope you're correct in your assumption. It would be nice.

It would.

One of the things I loved about EQ2 before it got ruined by Daybreak was how great a developer Emily (Domino) was at crafting and housing. A skilled person who is across all these systems balancing crafting, gathering, improving I.S. and hopefully, incorporating the housing systems too.

We need it!