Turn on Demolish for Housing and fix housing please.

[DevonEllwood]

Hey, I know it's the goblet, but I just wanted to let people know, there is a medium FC house in ward 2 on Balmung that is now empty.

It's the one right next to the water, so someone can have a chance at a nice FC house (and being my neighbor).

[Pablomaldito]

I wouldn't worry about that going unnoticed. The bids are definitely going to get well into the triple digits.

[SassyAssassin]

Favourite location! Wish it happened on my server at some point.

[Pablomaldito]

Favourite location! Wish it happened on my server at some point.

Goblet 19/49 is one of only a handful of plots where you can go swimming just a few steps away from your front gate. Goblet may be the least desired district, but I'd say that this plot and its small neighbor next to the waterfall are two of the best plots anywhere.

On your datacenter, there are actually still a lot of Goblet 19/49 available in the FC wards of Phantom & Saggitarius. All the personal versions are taken though.

[Lunalepsy]

I've been trying to get a house on Lamia ever since this new lottery system was implemented and it is horrible!!!

Why is it bad??

1. Demolish is not turned on so houses never come back to the market.
2. Every house on Lamia is taken in Shirogane and Empyreum.
3. Only 1 chance per week.
4. Competition is 150+ in the lotto per attempt.

I'd gladly sit outside a house for 14 hours clicking multiple times a week against 10 ppl over only getting one chance a week again 150 people.

Seriously the worst idea ever.

I've been playing off and on since 1.0. I've come and gone and come back multiple times. Mainly just trying other thing. Nothing has ever really pissed me off and made me want to quit because of bad design until now. I never needed/wanted a house until Endwalker and I so wish I tried before Endwalker because this is seriously the dumbest design I have ever seen.

Just let us pay real life money for a premium ward with guaranteed housing or double/triple the gil cost for a premium ward. This is ridiculous!!

Demolishing houses was a big mistake in the first place.

[SassyAssassin]

Goblet 19/49 is one of only a handful of plots where you can go swimming just a few steps away from your front gate. Goblet may be the least desired district, but I'd say that this plot and its small neighbor next to the waterfall are two of the best plots anywhere.

On your datacenter, there are actually still a lot of Goblet 19/49 available in the FC wards of Phantom & Saggitarius. All the personal versions are taken though.

Yeah Id have to completely start over and build my fc up and by then they will be gone either way there are a few large plots on Louisoix left at least, also FC, Ill try my luck this time ^.^

[Knot_D]

Hey, I know it's the goblet, but I just wanted to let people know, there is a medium FC house in ward 2 on Balmung that is now empty.

It's the one right next to the water, so someone can have a chance at a nice FC house (and being my neighbor).

This is the only hotspot at Goblet that I really love (and owned it ) because of the Roegadyn flexing view

Good luck Balmung peeps!

[Silverghost]

Here's another idea.
Make a veteran rewards tier for a specific veteran only housing ward.
5yr, 7yr, 10yr maybe something like that and if it fills create a new one so that all veterans can gain a house.
Could even have multiple tiers so maybe as you reach the 7yr or 10yr there may be extra availability of those more desired spots and sizes.

I realize this may not be a popular idea because it doesn't bring housing to all players.

[DamianFatale]

I've always thought them turning it off for Russia/Ukraine was a little odd. If they turn it off any time there's a conflict in the world, might as well just remove the feature altogether.

This makes sense. What people don't realize about the Chaos and Light Datacenters is that the places they are located at are not usually as big as the United States, and Canada. These countries are often only as big as medium to larger American states, so when people say EU datacenters, they literally mean the entire EU, and the United Kingdom.

Its a similar distance from the American west coast to the east coast for example. Europe as a continent is around 10.80 million square kilometers across, while the United States is about 9.88 square kilometers across. In fact, it could be argued that Canada needs its own Data Center because of this. When I say America, I do not mean Canada. Canada is 9.985 million kilometers across. The problem with Canada is that the datacenters wouldn't be as useful because it has a much lower population.

Europe has 746.4 million people as of 2018.

America has 329.5 millionas of 2020.

Canada has a population of 38.01 million as of 2020.

The reason Europe is bigger is because its older, denser, and more developed due to each area being a developed country rather than a state. Canada is smaller because it has a lot of unuseable land, or land that is just too far away, or too hard to pass over due to the constant changing of ice, and snow over bodies of water. America is big because well, its America. We founded a large country, and populated it in a similar way to a Republic. We also increased our population heavily during the last few centuries.

As a result I do not see the housing demolition closed any time soon until Ukrainian FFXIV players can safely resume logging in to check on their houses.
Canada needs at least one data center for ping times, but its not likely any time soon. There may not be enough players to support it. Though I know a lot of people that play in Vancouver and Victoria. (some of my friends.) My current FC is also primarily Canadian. This game is played a lot in Canada, it just not be known enough that there are a lot of players.

Now they could resume demolition on NA, and Japanese Servers, but I don't know if they will. Some people refuse to leave the servers even after servers closer to home are introduced. Japan and Russia have also had tense relations and are technically under a ceasefire with Russia. Square Enix has also had a reputation for hiring Russian talent I.e. Origa. She was a brilliant singer all the way until her passing, so I imagine the Russian/Ukrainian topic is quite sensitive to them, and they are merely adapting out of courtesy. I have a feeling that there is an overall fear of potential retaliation from Russia as well, even if things seem alright at the time. It's a sensitive topic, so I think the demolition being non active still stands for those reasons.

[vanaii]

That's prime real estate. Especially with the Halloween event going on-- the little ghosts "playing" on the npc island are a sight to behold.

This is the only hotspot at Goblet that I really love (and owned it ) because of the Roegadyn flexing view

Good luck Balmung peeps!

He has a ghost admiring his muscles during this event. Of course you need to check at night when the ghosts are out!