Remove FC housing entirely

[Seraphor]

If all housing was instanced in the first place, these discussions wouldn't be happening.

If ward housing is going to continue to be a thing, then FCs should still be able to get a house but SE should remove all the economic advantages to ownership. Those getting a house solely for workshop or garden would no longer get one; FCs would still have their customizable space for social gatherings without being limited to some generic space (unless SE finally decided to do instanced housing right and offers variety in locations).


The mistake was SE's original assumption that players don't want personal houses and that only FCs would. Considering the number of players already using a FC house as a personal house because that was the only way to get a house for a while, removing personal plot ownership wouldn't accomplish anything.

Of course removing either FC or personal housing at this point isn't an option.
But in hindsight, they should have kept wards to FC only, and expanded an instanced model for personal housing.

Apartments should have been developed further. We have 3 times as many Apartments as Housing plots, enough to give every player one.
If they could be upgraded to comparable sizes of housing interiors, plus an option for an instanced outside/garden space. It would have been fine.

They also underestimated the split between demands for Small/Medium/Large, for both a personal and FC perspective, and instead of 20/7/3 per ward, it should have been split more like 15/10/5, or maybe even 10/10/10 if were assuming strictly FC use.