Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
So some NA worlds other than Balmung did actually use up all their fc houses? That's interesting. If it took 5 months for Coeurl and others, it still seems as though bigger fcs have had plenty of time to obtain a house before solo fcs got theirs. Hopefully some of the new wards in NA are fc only so that fcs created in the future will be able to obtain a house as well.
It sounds like you're making assumptions about how long it takes a FC to meet the requirements for house purchase based on its size.

A solo FC can get to Rank 6 within a few hours of FC creation by spamming Expert Deliveries. All it takes is a little advance preparation by collecting gear received through quick ventures, buying from the marketboard cheap and/or doing some supplemental solo dungeon farming.

Then they're ready to go just like the large FCs. The only difference between the two *might* be the number of entries they have for a plot depending on the wealth of the members.

The FCs at a real disadvantage are the genuine small to mid-size FCs formed by relatively new players that are less likely to have the resources of the other two.

Certainly SE will make some of the new wards FC but we're right back to how many will still be left 3 months later when more recently created FCs will be looking for a house. How many will have been bought up by the shell FCs running their workshop farms?

It's a mess of a system and any short term gain on the supply problem that SE creates quickly gets wiped out because those small gains are still far less than general demand.

It's a mess that SE could have avoided by not attaching gil generation to housing and having it all fully instanced from the start.