Positive Housing Critic/Feedback (More Large Plots)

[Themarvin]

I support to turn Private housing off entirely and make it FC only, on top of that, much higher requirements for getting an FC house.

[not_ya_wify]

I've been wanting an apartment in Amaurot ever since I set foot in that city.

There are lore reasons for getting one: Emet-Selch invited you to live there (albeit in monster form).

Furthermore, there are lore reasons for making them all large apartments: Amaurotines are huge, so their houses should apartments should be 2 stories high and the size of a mansion floor. If course this space comes with 800 item slots and floor to ceiling windows with a view over the city.

[not_ya_wify]

I think it's bizarre to keep the pricing structure for L and M size houses the same as ARR when there aren't many of them compared to the size of the player population and the amount of gil in circulation. There has been more than enough time for players to create alts to increase their chances. It does not seem like new wards are in the works.

With the current supply and demand (and no auto-demolition), it seems reasonable to me to see at least 200mil on a large size house. There are more than a couple of players that can afford over 500mil for a large size house for their FC.

There is absolutely no reason to make large houses even more expensive other than rich players not wanting competition from the poors

[Silverbane]

WRT to personal housing, it would be nice if the owning character could make that player's other characters on that world tenants.
Right now, there's no way to do that.

[TAS]

After losing out on another Large by a single number, and because I strongly believe that whatever Larges roll over into the next lottery are going to have bids in the dozens/hundreds, pls Devs, consider creating new ward Layouts that have a greater quantity of large houses in future updates.

[Fable]

I think they should make a neat FC-exclusive instanced large plot of land.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

I personally feel that Larges should be FC only - and that FCs do have MUCH higher requirements to apply; as it stands your a fool if your after a large and do not have a personal FC with 4+ members to bid on the same plot next time. Those are very low bars to meet and I took the liberty of watching some plots on Crystal.
WARD 7 8 37 38 1 31 9 49
26 1/1/1/3/3 1/1/3/2/3 0/2/2/3/3 0/1/2/2/3 1/1/1/1/2 1/1/1/1/1 0/0/1/2/2 0/0/24/26/26
27 1/1/3/3/4 1/1/3/3/3 1/1/2/2/4 1/1/2/3/3 0/1/1/1/1 1/1/1/1/1 1/1/1/2/2 0/0/1/1/1
28 6/7/7/7/7 2/2/4/4/4 0/2/2/3/3 1/2/2/4/4 0/0/3/3/3 1/1/1/1/2 0/1/1/2/2 1/1/1/1/2
29 2/3/4/4/4 1/1/1/2/3 4/3/3/3/4 1/4/4/4/4 1/1/1/1/2 0/1/1/1/2 0/3/3/3/3 1/1/1/1/2
30 -/2/3/3/3 -/2/4/4/5 -/3/4//4/5 -/4/4/4/4 -/2/3/3/3 -/1/2/2/3 -/3/3/4/4 -/1/1/2/2

This was Shirogane; top number is the plot and left is the ward - look at how the bids trended every morning.
Second conclusion is that the bidding window needs to be looked at because early bidders are at a huge disadvantage to folks that were running allover the wards this morning.

[Fable]

The bidding window seems too long to me. It's a build up of disappointment for most people. 3 days seems like plenty of time.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

The bidding window seems too long to me. It's a build up of disappointment for most people. 3 days seems like plenty of time.

Generally yeah....but people like to argue that most people cannot manage 1 hour in 2 days to go place a bid apparently. So now you get the ball busting torture of waiting a week for results.

[Midlithe]

I'd like to see a couple changes:

1) Island has unlock for personal housing that unlocks incrementally to allow you to build across the entire island. (I'll use the SWTOR reference housing here in which they used a tile system for unlocked areas)
2) All wards are both FC/Private (In case folks don't want to use island or its not available)
3) FC purchases are verified to be legit FCs and not SHELL companies owned by one person farming Subs
4) Lottery System implemented for demolished houses automatically - You can sign up while it's pending demolition and the lottery rules follow
5) ALT Friendly!!! You can only buy one house - let our ALTS use that same house please or let them buy own house (Which would be dumb idea for already short housing capacity)