Now That The Game Is Getting A Housing Upgrade, When Are The Extra Wards?

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Regardless of how easy to make the money, the argument is also how willing these people are to spend the money. Because there are a lot of things someone could conceivably spend gil on--gear, leveling, mounts and other expensive items, and some of the things you listed...

But even outside of that, the argument still stands, at least on highly populated servers like those on Aether. All houses end up in the clutches of hoarders eventually, because they have virtually infinite gil compared to an individual's ~100m, and an army of alt characters compared to the individual only wanting the house on their main (which makes sense). So that's 50 set-and-forget bids against one 'if I don't get it this time I'm done with this system' bid. And there are multiple of the first group competing with each other.

And then you end up with wards that look like this...



...and the game is worse off because of it.

Better to tighten the restrictions on the system and be done with it. A few ERP venues is not worth this miscarriage of game design... and excluding extraordinary circumstances, the only reason one would have to disagree is if they were part of the problem.

(And judging by your shell FC of choice, I think I can guess where you stand...)