Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
I'm still in the camp of "if you want a house that badly, move to where they are available". For now, that's the best chance of being able to get a house in NA. Data center travel allows players to continue playing with their friends. I don't see SE opening up more wards when they want players spreading out more to help reduce log-in congestion issues at expansion launch and the first couple of major patch releases.
Depending on the size of one’s friend group, you could all make a plan and move together. I think, even with DC travel, most people want to be on the same home world with their friends and FCs if they have them, so even if they have to or want to go to a different DC to do certain things, when they’re on their home world they don’t feel so isolated. Admittedly the game could do more to alleviate that, with better CWLS and not losing access to things like retainers, etc. when you go off-world. It’s still unappealing for a lot of people to move to what others call a “dead DC” just for a chance to get a house.

I’m wondering if Cosmic Exploration will help a bit… in a recent interview, it was compared to being like Ishgardian Restoration, in that you’ll be working together with others on your world to progress things. That was before DC travel, but it really helped create a sense of community within your world, something that Dynamis could probably use some help with. I guess it depends on how popular the content is, and whether or not it will be crafter/gatherer only like Restoration or any class like Island Sanctuary, but maybe it’ll give players the incentive to stay on their own worlds more… I remember always seeing the Firm Fates in shout chat! At any rate, maybe it’ll give a little push to make the new servers feel more like “home,” and encourage more people to run content on their home servers so as to not miss out on progressing their world for CE.

Even so, if anyone is still on the fence at this point, and is considering moving, I’d do it now before DT, while we’re in a bit of a lull and auto-demo is opening up houses from player inactivity… I’m still firmly in the camp of “make instanced already, this shouldn’t have to be a thing,” but as others have said, this is what we’ve got right now. I have a plot I’m happy with, so I’m content to wait and see what changes we get to housing in the future. But for those that are still looking, this might be the time to make the move, before it’s too late. Xbox players are already here, they weren’t locked into Dynamis, and they’ll be able to get off free trial and enter the housing market in a couple weeks. As I’ve said before, even Dynamis will eventually suffer from the player to plot ratio being way too low… so if transferring was your last resort, this might be the time.