Simple Housing Fix: Island Sanctuary

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Once another housing district is added, we should theoretically have enough houses for everyone.

Theoretically, until every gold farmer and venue FC floods in to take every decent plot like they did with Empyreum, then we'll be back to square one.

The issue with simply adding another housing district is that people don’t just “want a house” they want a specific plot.

On many worlds, Empyreum is largely deserted because it’s not as sought after. For example, on Spriggan there are currently 233 open Shirogane smalls and 336 open plots in Empyreum, yet only 3 of those are medium plots. In Tonberry, a congested JP server there are 541 open plots. 12 are mediums and 3 are large. What’s actually in demand are mediums and specific plots due to view and location.

This means we’ll inevitably end up in the same situation again: people complaining that they “can’t get a house” while choosing not to go for what is available. That doesn’t make them wrong, preference is valid, but it does show that the problem isn’t simply a lack of housing.

I fully acknowledge that this is a different situation on servers like Balmung where there are only 18 plots available. However, on many others, houses do exist, just not the ones people want.

To put this into perspective, on Zodiark, currently the only EU world closed to new characters, there are 655 plots available.

So yes, a new housing district would alleviate some pressure, but it doesn’t address the core problem and would inevitably recreate the same issues over time.

Somehow this is impossible for people to actually understand; housing mains will be quick to come in here and say how you don't actually want a house because you won't settle for plot 27 in the Goblet, when in reality it's just not fun to decorate something in some forgotten corner of a low poly map from over a decade ago where it's guaranteed nobody will actually visit (because plot 30 nine times out of ten is a shell FC).

Games should be fun.