Need more wards.

[Avoidy]

Honestly stop adding useless FC wards, and I say this as someone who GAVE UP, made an alt, boosted it, created a shell fc for him, and used that shell fc to finally buy a goddamned house after losing my personal on a goddamned coin toss. Even though it's literally how I got a home, I will still say it anyway, like I've been saying.
Stop with the FC wards. Stop adding them. Anyone who owns an FC and doesn't have a house at this point for that FC doesn't need any more exclusive chances. This shit is ridiculous, you've had your shot. On balmung, the meme RP server with loads of people, small private homes had 1-2 people bidding before the lotto ended. Some smalls literally just had 1. Imagine if they'd opened that FC ward 25 up to individuals. Imagine how just that, would have helped disperse the demand to give more people what they wanted and create less competition and 50/50 shots. Since they're hell bent on the ward system anyway, stop giving FCs privileges; literally my fc ward is empty as hell and the winners are all shells like mine is. No genuine FC got into my ward. It's sickening. I am one person, but I won a home in a free company ward. Same with all the other people in the free company ward. MAYBE just make it an individual ward instead. How incompetent do they honestly have to be I swear to god.

Or failing that, actually address the ward problem on a world by world basis. Balmung is perpetually screwed housing-wise. It should get priority over worlds that don't have a similar problem. They started this, sort of, with Dynamis. I want them to keep it going. Done in earnest, balmung should legit have 2-3 more wards than every other world on crystal, minimum, because it's a perpetually congested RP server i.e. hella people are gonna want homes here compared to some of these other worlds that -- let's be real -- are only congested for 6.3 and are gonna die hard in like a month.

[Sourcy]

Honestly stop adding useless FC wards, and I say this as someone who GAVE UP, made an alt, boosted it, created a shell fc for him, and used that shell fc to finally buy a goddamned house after losing my personal on a goddamned coin toss. Even though it's literally how I got a home, I will still say it anyway, like I've been saying.
Stop with the FC wards. Stop adding them. Anyone who owns an FC and doesn't have a house at this point for that FC doesn't need any more exclusive chances. This shit is ridiculous, you've had your shot. On balmung, the meme RP server with loads of people, small private homes had 1-2 people bidding before the lotto ended. Some smalls literally just had 1. Imagine if they'd opened that FC ward 25 up to individuals. Imagine how just that, would have helped disperse the demand to give more people what they wanted and create less competition and 50/50 shots. Since they're hell bent on the ward system anyway, stop giving FCs privileges; literally my fc ward is empty as hell and the winners are all shells like mine is. No genuine FC got into my ward. It's sickening. I am one person, but I won a home in a free company ward. Same with all the other people in the free company ward. MAYBE just make it an individual ward instead. How incompetent do they honestly have to be I swear to god.

Or failing that, actually address the ward problem on a world by world basis. Balmung is perpetually screwed housing-wise. It should get priority over worlds that don't have a similar problem. They started this, sort of, with Dynamis. I want them to keep it going. Done in earnest, balmung should legit have 2-3 more wards than every other world on crystal, minimum, because it's a perpetually congested RP server i.e. hella people are gonna want homes here compared to some of these other worlds that -- let's be real -- are only congested for 6.3 and are gonna die hard in like a month.

There are dozens of untouched smalls that got zero bids in every district ward 25 on Balmung. And about 20 new smalls from FC only wards 1-8 in various places have popped up from smalls moving out. Next week it is entirely possible that there will be quite literally over 100 small lots in FC only wards that will simply be picked up by shell FC's to Resell via RMT or cheese to make personals while the 200-250 people who didn't win their 50-25% chance on their small have to fight over the paltry 10 or so available smalls that come up from people moving.

[Avoidy]

There are dozens of untouched smalls that got zero bids in every district ward 25 on Balmung. And about 20 new smalls from FC only wards 1-8 in various places have popped up from smalls moving out. Next week it is entirely possible that there will be quite literally over 100 small lots in FC only wards that will simply be picked up by shell FC's to Resell via RMT or cheese to make personals while the 200-250 people who didn't win their 50-25% chance on their small have to fight over the paltry 10 or so available smalls that come up from people moving.

Yup, it's completely ridiculous. I see posts here that are like "but muh fc, I need a spot for muh fc" and I just have zero sympathy at this point. Literally the only FCs struggling for housing are doing it to themselves because they're desperate for a medium or a large.
I wish Square would get their heads out of their asses and just open the remaining plots up to individual buyers already.

[Yodada]

I wish Square would get their heads out of their asses and just open the remaining plots up to individual buyers already.

We all know what will happen afterwards. Didnt won the Large, Medium etc. outcries. I wont bid on a house in Uldah cries. I dont want a non desired plot I want a LB41 or a M35 cries. The players especially the OF cant be satisfied.

[Avoidy]

We all know what will happen afterwards. Didnt won the Large, Medium etc. outcries. I wont bid on a house in Uldah cries. I dont want a non desired plot I want a LB41 or a M35 cries. The players especially the OF cant be satisfied.

People will always feel bad about bad luck; it's why RNG systems like these are so terrible in the first place. Doesn't mean more individual wards isn't a good start towards making housing attainable for people who will actually use it.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

People will always feel bad about bad luck; it's why RNG systems like these are so terrible in the first place. Doesn't mean more individual wards isn't a good start towards making housing attainable for people who will actually use it.

Would a fair compromise perhaps be a more strict requirement to continue to possess a home? I mean we know Demo has been turned off for far too long; then there is the matter of dead homes devoid of users and the issue with Sub-fleets requiring solo FC's take up real-estate.
I would LOVE to see the actual housing metrics once you cut down to a baseline - that is to say; get rid of the extra homes people do own; get rid of the abandoned homes; get rid of the homes that are not seeing use aside for workshops (I am not saying remove workshops; only remove the need to have multiple homes for people that run their mega-fleet)

Again just a glance at this bidding cycle on Crystal leads me to believe that there is enough - One thing that I would change is to remove the current limitation that stops you from bidding on other worlds on your DC; as your someone on Balmung I wince when I see how your shards bidding went; on the flip side the bidding on Goblin however was laughable.

[Eraden]

We all know what will happen afterwards. Didnt won the Large, Medium etc. outcries. I wont bid on a house in Uldah cries. I dont want a non desired plot I want a LB41 or a M35 cries. The players especially the OF cant be satisfied.

Mao is constantly amazed at how so many peoples nots like Goblets. Is Mao's favorite place! Mao just got a medium there and Mao is staying puts!