6 New wards Added to All housing districTs PER WORLD!

[Themarvin]

SE need to tighten the rules because I know alot of people will be making alts on those worlds to harvest additional FC's with for their own selfish reasons....

Because in short time people will complain again about to few houses, while some has 2 or above.

[Jojoya]

SE need to tighten the rules because I know alot of people will be making alts on those worlds to harvest additional FC's with for their own selfish reasons....

Because in short time people will complain again about to few houses, while some has 2 or above.

A lot will depend on how many of the new wards they choose to reserve for FCs. They should have a fair amount of data gathered from lottery sales about what the actual demand is for FC versus personal. While people are expecting a 50/50 split, could be that SE will reserve only 1 or 2 of the new wards in each district if they feel actual FC demand is mostly met for now.

If all wards were designated personal, the number being added would be enough to meet the unsatisfied personal demand we were seeing on most worlds back in June when the personal wards had finally filled up outside of the stray house made available. Those tracking bid counts at the time were coming up with numbers in the 1500-3000 range.

It's not going to remove demand for more medium and large houses but hopefully almost everyone who actually wants a house should be able to get a house of some type.

[Oizen]

SE need to tighten the rules because I know alot of people will be making alts on those worlds to harvest additional FC's with for their own selfish reasons....

Because in short time people will complain again about to few houses, while some has 2 or above.

A lot of housing issues could easily be solved by making it one per account instead of per character, and even more so by requiring completion of Endwalker.

Shirogane in Dynamis is the most dead ward because stormblood gatekept a lot of alts out.

[VerdeLuck]

SE need to tighten the rules because I know alot of people will be making alts on those worlds to harvest additional FC's with for their own selfish reasons....

Because in short time people will complain again about to few houses, while some has 2 or above.

It is a shame, I moved to Dynamis to hopefully get a house but it looks like all the personals will be taken in the next lottery. When these new wards come out you get exactly 2 lotteries to get the small you want and then it's just all gone.
They either need a rule change to stop people using shell FCs and alts to farm up multiple houses, or just need to double the existing wards to make sure people can actually get one.

[Brygd]

Are you on Maduin? We have many mediums and smalls still available.

[VerdeLuck]

Are you on Maduin? We have many mediums and smalls still available.

No Hallicarnassus, and between all 4 areas the mediums and larges are all gone and about half the smalls are gone in a single round. I haven't missed a single round of bidding since lottery started on my original world and still haven't manged to win a small.

[Amenara]

A lot of housing issues could easily be solved by making it one per account instead of per character

I would be ok with that if all of my characters had full access to the use of the house, but I imagine that would be difficult for SE especially seeing how we even can't mail things to our own characters with their current tech.

[Shibi]

A lot of housing issues could easily be solved by making it one per account instead of per character, and even more so by requiring completion of Endwalker.

Shirogane in Dynamis is the most dead ward because stormblood gatekept a lot of alts out.

Because - on a new DC - everything is so interconnected you do need to be careful with making the gatekeeping too strong.

Most of all the new DC needs good queues to survive. Without good queues, then it will be forever worse than Materia is. People will head over to Aether to do their queues.

Making housing as easy to get as it is now means there is a healthy as possible population to draw from. People having housing gives them roots to ensure it's easier to keep them on the DC.

If you lock housing until completion of EW, then the population drops and shatters, and the queues get worse.

No Hallicarnassus, and between all 4 areas the mediums and larges are all gone and about half the smalls are gone in a single round.

Are you really sure? I just jumped on Hali this second and did a genuine manual count just looking at 13-24 main and subdivision

in LB I count 35 mediums and one large
in Goblet I count 105 mediums and 9 larges
in Mist I count 45 mediums and 3 larges
in Empty I count 52 mediums with zero larges
In Shiro I count 14 mediums with zero larges

We have 251 mediums empty on Hali, 12 larges, and maybe 70% of smalls still vacant.

Shiro is the busiest, but there are a tonne of empty houses, especially smalls outside of shiro. If you really want one, same advice for years, get the worst and upgrade in the next round or in January. Don't hold out for a LB41 then throw up your hands saying "no haus left, I give up"

[Sotaris]

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.

Well, there is likely more need for FC wards so wouldn't surprise anyone.

[Sotaris]

It is a shame, I moved to Dynamis to hopefully get a house but it looks like all the personals will be taken in the next lottery. When these new wards come out you get exactly 2 lotteries to get the small you want and then it's just all gone.
They either need a rule change to stop people using shell FCs and alts to farm up multiple houses, or just need to double the existing wards to make sure people can actually get one.

Based on how it was on the new EU worlds, we're still having a ton of houses available. Especially in the FC wards.