Quote Originally Posted by Palin View Post
So you either get stuck alone in an empty server or constant hopping back and forth just to use a retainer drives you insane. All for a house. Great idea guys
People suggest it because being extremely blunt, it is the only solution you'll get for a long time. 7.1 is realistically the earliest they'll do any sort of housing, if they actually want to add anything, and that's realistically a year ish away.

The beginning of EW & when Island Sanctuary dropped showcase that the Housing server does not have enough instances to support the entire playerbase, as people were getting locked out of being able to enter their homes entirely during those periods of time due to too many instances open at the same time. Meaning any solution to give every player unequivocal access to a house will -not- work and will instead introduce an entirely different and much more serious problem in its stead.

The devs have constantly mentioned they want the playerbase to spread out across the datacenters, so housing is a good mechanic to drag people kicking and screaming to Dynamis/smaller servers. They have zero reason to put in any more housing until Dynamis & smaller servers fills up.

If you want a house without torturing yourself on hilariously low lottery odds from huge competition, you go to Dynamis or a smaller server. If you want to stay on a larger server, you play ridiculous odds in the lottery and realistically don't get a house.
Pick your poison, because an antidote ain't coming for a loooongggg time. It's the uncaring, blunt reality, and why people suggest to go somewhere else. Staying on huge RP servers with huge housing demand like Balmung or Mateus is a self-inflicted punishment that more wards won't even fix in reality.

Also speaking as someone who has tons of friends on both Aether & Crystal and hops between both near daily to play with the different friend groups, I really don't get why people say anything like 'leaving their friends behind'. You can literally go right back and play with them in <1min at any point. And if they won't join a CWLS because you no longer share an FC to keep easy communication between you when you're travelling back to play with them? Then hate to break it to ya, they weren't really your friends.