SE if you're going to keep housing the way it is YOU NEED MORE WARDS

[RaideDuku]

Did he say size? I thought it was more that they could possibly allow you to change the layout of the interior, as in room placement and dimensions. I didn't think he was saying you could have a large sized interior with a small sized exterior.

- There are plans underway in 7.0 to be able to change the interior of a house to remove the columns, or to change the size of the interior.

From 6.5 patch notes reading. Key word there, "or". It is, of course, a translation from the original Japanese, but every translation I've seen does state the "remove pillar/column" thing is a different feature from the "change the size of the interior" thing. It still can be a misinterpretation, though.

[Khryseis_Astra]

- There are plans underway in 7.0 to be able to change the interior of a house to remove the columns, or to change the size of the interior.

From 6.5 patch notes reading. Key word there, "or". It is, of course, a translation from the original Japanese, but every translation I've seen does state the "remove pillar/column" thing is a different feature from the "change the size of the interior" thing. It still can be a misinterpretation, though.

From the translation I saw (can’t remember where from, I just took a screenshot of the text), the wording was: “We are promoting specifications such as changing the interior of a house with a completely different size that is scheduled to be in patch 7.x but does not have pillars.” They then make the comment “mirage-like setting?”

So the pillar removal thing is in the same sentence as the size, at least according to this… I’d really like to see a translation from a native speaker who also knows English, because there’s a lot of room for speculation here! lol

Since the insides of all houses are already instanced, the general assumption is that you could have a small exterior but a large interior. Now whether that large interior is the same as what we already have, or if they’re going to make a generic layout that just omits the pillars, because it might be easier for them to bypass the neighborhood interior themes? Who knows? My dream would be for them to go crazy and create a few totally new layouts for all 3 sizes, or big dream: let you totally customize your layout altogether (but I don’t see that happening). There’s a housing mirage thread in the housing forum where some of us have been speculating and or putting our wish list out there. lol

[SamSmoot]

Instanced housing, one ward. Every plot is instanced, and you choose what house you want to see and visit via the placard at the entrance, (which has thumbnails)
This way, your place is open to visitors if you want them, without having to form a party like in other MMO's instanced housing.
Your own house always appears in your plot unless you pick another one.

Desirable locations would be priced higher, more remote ones cheaper, with the price adjusted by occupancy numbers.
With perhaps, hundreds of owners per plot, the surrounding streets should be much busier, instead of being deserted like they are now.
One issue: With current instanced rooms, such as your inn, it's appearance is loaded from your local storage. With instanced plots,each exterior would have to be loaded from the serves, which could cause significant load as you travel around the area.

[Asari5]

as long as there isnt a hous for every player and every guild there eill never be enough houses. so we have to push down the demand.... we need a rent for houses.

that will help on the long term. not everybody has hundreds of millions in gil. and if somebody wants to get a few extra gil its not at all difficult to get them

it was a mistake to not keep houses limited to guilds to beginn with

[Stormpeaks]

Instanced housing, one ward. Every plot is instanced, and you choose what house you want to see and visit via the placard at the entrance, (which has thumbnails)
This way, your place is open to visitors if you want them, without having to form a party like in other MMO's instanced housing.
Your own house always appears in your plot unless you pick another one.

Desirable locations would be priced higher, more remote ones cheaper, with the price adjusted by occupancy numbers.
With perhaps, hundreds of owners per plot, the surrounding streets should be much busier, instead of being deserted like they are now.
One issue: With current instanced rooms, such as your inn, it's appearance is loaded from your local storage. With instanced plots,each exterior would have to be loaded from the serves, which could cause significant load as you travel around the area.

No, we dont need people to flock in and out of every plot like bots, if you want that, go on Dynamis and look around new gridania, it's bots galore.

My house is my house, my garden is my garden , my placard is my placard. I own the place.

[LianaThorne]

as long as there isnt a hous for every player and every guild there eill never be enough houses. so we have to push down the demand.... we need a rent for houses.

that will help on the long term. not everybody has hundreds of millions in gil. and if somebody wants to get a few extra gil its not at all difficult to get them

it was a mistake to not keep houses limited to guilds to beginn with

There is a rent, it's called your subscription. Pay Square $13+ a month to keep your house or lose it after 45 days. Let's not tack on a gil rent on top of it.

[LianaThorne]

Instanced housing, one ward. Every plot is instanced, and you choose what house you want to see and visit via the placard at the entrance, (which has thumbnails)
This way, your place is open to visitors if you want them, without having to form a party like in other MMO's instanced housing.
Your own house always appears in your plot unless you pick another one.

Desirable locations would be priced higher, more remote ones cheaper, with the price adjusted by occupancy numbers.
With perhaps, hundreds of owners per plot, the surrounding streets should be much busier, instead of being deserted like they are now.
One issue: With current instanced rooms, such as your inn, it's appearance is loaded from your local storage. With instanced plots,each exterior would have to be loaded from the serves, which could cause significant load as you travel around the area.

People would still complain that they couldn't get the plot they want easily enough.

I'd also rather not have disgusting load times more times than I need to just so a housing ward can turn into Limsa Jr.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

Oh, its this thread again.

[Kaurhz]

There is a problem with the system, yes.

But honestly the biggest problem overall is that people are always very selective. Whether there's 30 wards, 60 wards, 90 wards -- There's still a finite number of plots that people will want to take and no amount of ward-system will solve this problem. This is the case on more servers than it isn't the case, and only a few servers would really benefit from more wards.

You could open up the remaining wards tomorrow on Sagittarius, and all of the larges in Shirogane will be taken within the first lottery cycle, and then all the others by the end of the second, maybe 3rd cycle. After that you'd be left with a few prime medium and small plots getting sucked up, e.g., the Goblet medium in Brimming Heart, or the one by the river in Lavender Beds... After that? You'll still have troves of empty plots for all current wards.

[Themarvin]

There is still 1000s of housing plots free on all servers as it is, it is not a used up ressource at all.

It would make little point in making more wards, and if you want to do something make it max 1 FC and 1 House per account, counting all DCs with no grandfathering and even more problems would be solved.