Housing suggestion to help with availability

[Yahavage]

I can't speak for all servers, but currently Sargatanas is pretty much chocka block (full). My FC are saving patiently for a medium (we have about 10 active members, everyone works full time, it's slow going :P) but currently on Sargatanas there are 0 available. When they add that 1 single whole new ward to each zone (which I think totals 14 new medium homes) we're still a long way off having the money for a house at full price, so we'll be waiting on it dropping again, whilst continuing to save.

My point: couldn't we have a system whereby FCs which are no longer using their homes, or the FC is even active, can sell the plots to another FC? To prevent abuse of this just make it so you can't sell it for more than the price of the house would ever drop to (so around 15 million or so I think for mediums).

It seems at the moment there's a lot of abandoned or inactive FC houses not being used, and people probably don't want to lose out on all that gil they dumped into it, this would at least ease the pain of that and maybe help other FCs such as mine.

Also, one thought we had was to just buy a small and continue to save for a medium, but again, waste of gil, it'd be better if we could sell on the plot, even if it's at a loss.

One more thing, I know it doesn't address the issue when FC leaders are just... gone, but we're still waiting on that fix from SE, nothing we can do about that.

I can't see any loopholes in my idea, but feel free to nitpick at it, that's why I'm posting it here \o/

[Stormrider]

Unless they moved it back 2.3 starts the 35 days of fear(whining). If not one Free Company member has bothered to go to the house its poof gone for your buying privilege. But with chocobo stables should see a few more people around.

[Mysteran]

They did indeed move it back:

Greetings,

Thank you for all the feedback on this.

Based on all of the comments, we’ll be spending a bit more time looking into the automatic removal of land and house feature again, and we expect to implement it sometime after patch 2.4. Once the details have been finalized we will be sure to make an announcement.

[Yahavage]

Yeah, the idea behind my suggestion is that it's a bit less... aggressive than just turfing out an inactive FC after a month or so.

Thought it is a little frustrating seeing so many empty FC houses.. I know of at least 1 where the FC has a small house, and every time I check the guy who bought it (in my LS), it's 0/3 members online...

Adding features might make them less empty, but things are always going to be changing with people, we should have some sort of option (I think, anyway) to be able to transfer the ownership or buy plots.

[Yahavage]

Bumping because... surely there's more than just my FC having this issue? Or is this really isolated to this server?

[FireHero]

Well I will point out we used to have an active FC living next door to us they split up relinquished there land but the house and decor were left and kept by the new owner. The new owner is a 1 man FC that is never on and has never been near the house since they bought it! So why they let people with just 1 member buy a house taking that space from an FC that will use it! Personal housing should be just around the corner it is planed for 2.35 So that's my suggestion get these 1 man bands to move out cause there is a lot of them out there!

[Yahavage]

Yeah that's true, and hopefully it'll alleviate some of the problem... still, it'd be nice if the people could get at least some of their money back

[Naryoril]

well, there is another simple solution without taking the houses of a FC away:

1) every FC can only have one plot, or maybe 1 plot per housing area (which means 3 in total)
2) Whenever there are no more plots of a category available (which will usually be small) a new ward is added automatically, so there will always be available plots of every category in every area.

[Yahavage]

well, there is another simple solution without taking the houses of a FC away:

1) every FC can only have one plot, or maybe 1 plot per housing area (which means 3 in total)
2) Whenever there are no more plots of a category available (which will usually be small) a new ward is added automatically, so there will always be available plots of every category in every area.

I would very much like the second point you've made to be implemented, as yes it would mean constant availability of housing, but my assumption is this will never happen due to server loads - this is probably why we've had to wait so long just to get another 3 instances added.

That's why I feel my idea helps, as at least helps open up plots in existing wards, instead of wasting server load on abandoned houses.

[SgtPepperUK]

My FC are saving patiently for a medium (we have about 10 active members, everyone works full time, it's slow going :P) but currently on Sargatanas there are 0 available. When they add that 1 single whole new ward to each zone (which I think totals 14 new medium homes) we're still a long way off having the money for a house at full price, so we'll be waiting on it dropping again, whilst continuing to save.

I'd question whether you really need a medium house or whether a small would suffice. Since the basements were added earlier this year the small houses are a much more attractive proposition. Bear in mind that, in addition to the plot, you also need to factor in the permit plus furnishings, I honestly think for a FC of 10 active members or so a small house would be more than adequate (Though you might still have an availability issue until the add new wards).