House plot class rank?

[Avidria]

Well this is an ancient post but I'd actually been wondering the same. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to how the ranks are decided either... or at least, some seem to make less sense than others imo. Makes me wonder how SE decides on it.

[Shriv]

As the best of my knowledge, the ranking was decided by the dev in the initial design for each housing area. Some of it does not makes sense at all, but it is subjectively affected by proximity to services, panorama, etc.

Ex: my house is on Lavender, 26, and besides beign relatively close to the MB, there's not an even remotely nice view. Still it set as first class.

For ref ther's the priceshart as of 3.3 (unchanged yet)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._updated_with/

[Devils_Lawyer]

The moment when casually browsing the forum at work only to see a thread you started over 5 years ago appear.

But yeah price is based on location pure and simple so lets pretend this never existed and let it slowly fade back into the shadows mmkay?

[Nihility]

Well this is an ancient post but I'd actually been wondering the same. There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to how the ranks are decided either... or at least, some seem to make less sense than others imo. Makes me wonder how SE decides on it.

It's just better locations. Waterfront, close to shops, etc... costs more. The plots are functionally identical.
Here's a map of grades




can see all the grade 1 is waterfront, the highest grade mansion is the one next to the hotspring,