Suggestion to reduce supply issues.

[Xelanar]

Make every single plot in the game upgradable zu medium or large by paying the respective amount of gil.
Add a really huge amount of wards, even if it takes longer to acomplish. Because releasing them in small batches always allows house flippers to prepare for it.
Add instanced housing somewhere, that is relocatable to plots, to accomodate for people / FCs who were not lucky enough on their lottery attempts.

[Eraden]

Make every single plot in the game upgradable zu medium or large by paying the respective amount of gil.
Add a really huge amount of wards, even if it takes longer to acomplish. Because releasing them in small batches always allows house flippers to prepare for it.
Add instanced housing somewhere, that is relocatable to plots, to accomodate for people / FCs who were not lucky enough on their lottery attempts.

First part is not possible due to the fact that the plot sizes are quite different. There is no space to be able to turn a small plot into a medium or large within the currently configured wards.

[Xelanar]

First part is not possible due to the fact that the plot sizes are quite different. There is no space to be able to turn a small plot into a medium or large within the currently configured wards.

That is... fairly obvious I think. I do trust in the dev teams ability to MAKE things like these possible, and I guess all people suggesting changes do? Else what sense would suggesting changes make, if "currently not possible" was a valid limitation?

[Eraden]

That is... fairly obvious I think. I do trust in the dev teams ability to MAKE things like these possible, and I guess all people suggesting changes do? Else what sense would suggesting changes make, if "currently not possible" was a valid limitation?

It would require redrawing the entire ward so that all plots were of large size. This would make the ward layout look ridiculous if not fully populated with large houses. Additionally, you would have people complaining if they were to be situated on such large plots of land but were not allowed to use all of it without upgrading. Might as well go all the way and make each house a large but then you would have people complaining that the base cost to get into housing is beyond their reach. What you are asking for has serious negative consequences if taken to its final conclusion. A better suggestion would be to apply that idea for expandability to an instanced system such as apartments.

[Xelanar]

It would require redrawing the entire ward so that all plots were of large size. This would make the ward layout look ridiculous if not fully populated with large houses. Additionally, you would have people complaining if they were to be situated on such large plots of land but were not allowed to use all of it without upgrading. Might as well go all the way and make each house a large but then you would have people complaining that the base cost to get into housing is beyond their reach. What you are asking for has serious negative consequences if taken to its final conclusion. A better suggestion would be to apply that idea for expandability to an instanced system such as apartments.

Would it not only look ridiculous, if developers decided to make it look ridiculous? It's not like they could not just decorate small / medium sized plots with stuff, to have them blend in nicely.

Redesigning all ward layouts to accomodate for large plots is a ton of work, but it certainly would get rid of SOME scarcity issues.

Maybe it's just me, but I see no drawback in having every plot be the same. I only see a huge amount of work to make it happen.

[LaylaTsarra]

They could add a floor to smalls and maybe mediums but changing the size and making them all large wouldn't look good in my view especially from a neighborhood perspective.

Instanced housing would be better suited to providing more large plots.

[DeNada]

Just have instanced housing. That way, you can have your pick to buy an apartment in the slums, a mansion akin to the levilleur estate or even own an entire castle like the one in il mheg.

Also, there will be no paissa/carbuncle/chocobo/gingerbread neighbors to ruin your view every time you port to your own house.