Please more housing wards soon. And no more FC/Private Hybrid.

[Stormpeaks]

The only problem are those service accounts with multiple plots in a single World.

There we go guys, we got it, the one and only legend CatStarwind found the solution to the NA housing crisis.

Just remove the few houses taken by multiowners, (which is at most what, 20-30 houses per world if I exagerate it a lot ? except on very select worlds) and the entire housing problem is fixed.

Thank god Yoshi P never thought of this before, everyone praise the CatStarwind.

On a more serious note, you need help, and fast, you should stay away from this game for your own sake, I dont think you are very well.

[PaalHenrik]

There we go guys, we got it, the one and only legend CatStarwind found the solution to the NA housing crisis.

Just remove the few houses taken by multiowners, (which is at most what, 20-30 houses per world if I exagerate it a lot ? except on very select worlds) and the entire housing problem is fixed.

Thank god Yoshi P never thought of this before, everyone praise the CatStarwind.

On a more serious note, you need help, and fast, you should stay away from this game for your own sake, I dont think you are very well.

You mean I have to stop crushing on YoshiP and crush on Catstarwind? I don't think the old boy could handle it.

[UkcsAlias]

The only problem are those service accounts with multiple plots in a single World.

They are a minority and dont even remotely compare with the multi FC owners that did entire ward takeovers. And these are a problem, as they will always drain any supply there is, and each account can contain a lot of chars (and therefor a lot of FCs). Punishing this would be a good thing. Even if an account has 1 FC with a house, and because of that owns 2 houses its still not as much of a problem as an account that has 8. And its easy to detect this.

I think a proper fix would be to make housing DC wide instead of server wide. The server name is then just for address purposes. An empty server would then still see the housing areas being used. But its very unlikely to be made this easily as it would require quite a bit of account transferring (its not like a duty where it has to load just 24 people without any additional inventories, but potentialy hundreds with full inventory data). Once this works, they can go for the next step: diffirent ward counts per server/DC. You can make some artificial server names for the pure purpose of housing. Instead of having to add 6 wards on all servers worldwide, adding just 1 'server' to a DC is enough to expand the housing there. No need for full server infrastructure.

But even then, expanding the appartment system to be capable of having full house features would be a massive boost. Sure, it will demand more of the server, but it is the place where expanding is generaly going to be the easiest. Since in theory it doesnt matter if there are 100 or 1000 slots available. As that directly just translates to storage value. It at most can depend on a player limit, where at some point it becomes somewhat unusable due to full servers. The ward system is rather inefficient (although it needs to exist for teleport related reasons), but if the wards themselve dont have to load all house contents, it can save some memory space.

[Yuniko]

The only problem are those service accounts with multiple plots in a single World.

I sadly don't think it'll solve the issue.

[CatStarwind]

They are a minority and dont even remotely compare with the multi FC owners that did entire ward takeovers.

Those are the same users.

There we go guys, we got it, the one and only legend CatStarwind found the solution to the NA housing crisis.

"The solution" ? It's a problem worth fixing, that's all. Are you okay?

[Final-Fantasy]

Good day, I am writing this forum post, as per today. Balmung and many of the NA Crystal housing situations are and have been getting MASSIVELY out of hand.

With the latest implimentation of Housing and housing wards, with FC/PRIVATE together making it even harder for people to get houses.

On Balmung, there's plethora of small 2-5 people FC's and Larger FC's who will roll around, bid on private houses, win them, relocate than do the same thing over again next lottery.

I've now tried for 75 diffrent houses.

I've played since 1.0 and right now, it is heart wrenching how BAD the Lottery system is.

Please don't get me wrong, it is better than the SPAM CLICK to be lucky system... but seriously... you have games like Old school runescape, who have done instances private housing... and it works. BUT i do understand wanting to have wards to show of decoration and all that, i like that too.

What i don't like is how utterly TERRIBAD the housing system is.

Please FIX this... AND please deal with the trolls who relocates just to ruin it for others.

( P.S i appologise for my horrible spelling, english is not my native language. )

What they need to do for FC's is, limit the ability to relocate to something like 30 days since purchase or relocation, possibly 60 or 90 days.

This maybe needed for Personal ownership as well, maybe 15 days or something, it should not allow you to relocate every single Lottery.

Then, everyone would think twice before making a Bid.

[Stormpeaks]

What they need to do for FC's is, limit the ability to relocate to something like 30 days since purchase or relocation, possibly 60 or 90 days.

This maybe needed for Personal ownership as well, maybe 15 days or something, it should not allow you to relocate every single Lottery.

Then, everyone would think twice before making a Bid.

Stop giving them bad ideas. It's already very difficult to relocate to a large or medium from a small, imagine if on top of that you have to wait that long to even start bidding on them, especially with the scarcity, it's already bad enough.

[Yuniko]

Stop giving them bad ideas. It's already very difficult to relocate to a large or medium from a small, imagine if on top of that you have to wait that long to even start bidding on them, especially with the scarcity, it's already bad enough.

This is very true.

And it dosn't help that on balmung. ( NO, I WILL NOT MOVE TO DYNAMIS ) People literarly relocates to troll other people, simply for ''HEY fluff you!'' *Trollface.jpg* As i explained i talked to an FC who rolled around with 16 members.. and each member were bidding on either same plot or multiple seperate plots.

They didn't NEED the house, they already had a large, i checked their FC profile. But they were doing it to troll

[CatStarwind]

They really should just restrict FCs to one bid just like private.

[Reinha]

They really should just restrict FCs to one bid just like private.

Bid in private-only wards. Personal problem, personal solution.