6 New wards Added to All housing districTs PER WORLD!

[LaylaTsarra]

Wow that is a surprise. Coming in 6.3 1800 new plots per server (regular and subdivision). FC and Private designations to come later.



Edit: Don't think Materia needs any new wards/plots! :P

[Shibi]

And 6.3 is in January 2023 for those wondering on the approximate date.

[Carin-Eri]

[Pablomaldito]

My body is ready.

And by my body, I mean the shell FC I have standing by on an alt. I've learned my lesson from Empyreum.

[Solarra]

6 new wards! That really is welcome news!

[Pablomaldito]

6 new wards! That really is welcome news!

I'm happy to see that this will be adding more houses than the release of Empyreum. But just remember that on established servers, this is still be far less availability than what we are seeing on Dynamis right now. Every personal house will have multiple bidders. Losing your bid will still be far more likely than winning. It's our best chance to score a personal plot since the launch of Empyreum, but it's far from guaranteed.

Based on what happened in Empyreum, FCs should have a few rounds of guaranteed housing. If you really want a house on an established server, give serious consideration to creating an FC for it. Level an alt if you cannot leave your FC on your main character. The projected release period for 6.3 is early January, so you will want to create an FC and have your bidding character(s) in it by early December at the latest.

edit: Just watch out for the FC house purchasing limits. I believe that if you already have a character that purchased an FC house, you must leave the FC before any of your other characters will be eligible to make a FC house purchase.

[Amenara]

In before 4 FC wards, 2 personal wards when they launch it.

Glad they realized how bad housing supply is on established DCs and are doing something about it, even if I think it's the wrong path to keep heading down.

[Amarande]

Yeah, the whole FC housing thing is far more far reaching than people think, or want to think, too.

Between access to workshop/submarines (which you don't get with a personal plot) and also general access to housing, it also actually has the effect of suffocating the growth and thriving of actual FC communities (unlike guilds in most other MMOs, where apart from placing the two largest size outdoor decorations in LOTRO, I'm not thinking of anything offhand that you have to have a guild house for, so they tend to develop far more naturally).

Instead of FCs getting to grow, people use their FC affiliation instead on a solo FC so they can gain access to said perks. (It doesn't help that every time FCs are given some form of preferential treatment - which is arguably on the other hand necessary in order to allow genuine fledgling FCs a chance at legitimacy, as few other than gil botters are particularly interested in a homeless FC - the value of this system-gaming is enhanced, as the shell FC often becomes the best chance on established worlds for a de facto personal home)

This then leads to a lot of people in splintered, separate FCs that largely (due to linkshells' limitations, especially cwls) have to then rely on social media to maintain a functional community (and as I've noted far too many times before, the pressures placed on community owners by social media platforms do not help FFXIV's situation in the slightest).

[Troxbark]

Shell FC and alts rejoice!

[Shibi]

I'm likely not going to make more shells.

But I think I will try shuffling the Aether FC (real players) into a better spot. The mist small is nice, but we are growing to much now. There's close to 800,000,000 in the fc vault, so maybe time to set up making sure enough alts are in the FC on me and closest friends, then stack it all on a top class plot.