Quote Originally Posted by justausername View Post
700-800 CURRENTLY. CURRENTLY. This will grow exponentially when new plots are added. Because many have given up for the time being. If my own little FC is anything to go by, 700-800 is only 1/5th the number of people who ACTUALLY want to bid, but have not found it worth it to go against 150+ people each time and have decided to wait for the new wards and stopped bidding until then. This means the actual bids could be closer to 3500 when the new wards come out, WAY more then there are plots. Enough for all plots to have 2+ bids. Now not all will, Larges and Meds will have more, meaning some smalls will in fact end up with 0 or just 1 due to limitation of 1 bid per character regardless of type, but it wont be 700-800 when the new wards come out, noooo way.
I seriously doubt that the actual demand is 5 times the number of bids we have been seeing over several lottery rounds which have been pretty consistent.

Imo, the actual demand is more likely to be just a few hundreds on worlds outside of Balmung based on the number of bids when there are only smalls available since we'll have to include relocator bids as well whenever there is a medium or large up for bidding. Which means that 4 mixed wards plus 1 private ward in 6.3 is definitely more than enough for everyone to get a house.

Despite all the complaints and gnashing of teeth in the forums, I do sincerely believe that the addition of wards plus auto demolition on 6.3 will finally solve FFXIV housing woes once and for all.

Though good luck if you are a fellow Balmung denizen lol!