Quote Originally Posted by Damptoe View Post
It's not really about having FC member personals in the same ward as the FC house.

It's more that this really sucks to look at and it's like this in most of the FC only wards even on Ravana and Sophia which are the largest servers.



The few new neighbours we've gained in our ward are just 4 member Rank 6 FCs farming submarines since they have unlimited time and plots to set them up.

The only purpose of this suggestion is to hopefully let these wards fill up with at least a few real players.
I doubt there is anything technical holding them back from flipping a configuration value to enable something that was possible for years. If it's simply a change in policy for simplicity sake that's holding them back, then yeah they can flip the FC/Personal allocations more frequently to achieve the same result.

For the time being, I think it makes a lot of sense to just open every ward to any type of purchaser or flip the allocations. It doesn't matter how they achieve it. If the data centre actually grows enough for real competition, then they can switch it back to how it is now.

Like I said in the OP, this really isn't a big deal but the way it is now also doesn't make a whole lot of sense on this data centre. This post is just meant as a little nudge towards SE that maybe this allocation isn't necessary anymore.
But where would those players come from to start filling in some of those plots? I wonder if anyone has numbers on how many new purchases are being made each lottery cycle.

I imagine by now that anyone who wants a house and can afford it has one. If the ward designation was removed or flipped to personal, you might see a few relocate to snag the available mediums I can see but those smalls would take a very long time to fill in because there are just too many houses on the Materia worlds compared to players that want a house.

What you need is for SE to put on a heavy marketing campaign for the holidays to draw in new OCE players to help fill in all the wards instead of just shuffling existing owners around.