6 New wards Added to All housing districTs PER WORLD!

[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"