Housing system: Land race

[Nexxa]

Honestly, there should always be a new ward added immediately when they are 90% full.

So much this. If an old clunker like LOTRO can pull it off why can't this modern masterpeice?

[BroodingFicus]

All the concern addressed are the same ones that have worried my FC:

A. Will there ever be enough plots to go around?
B. Will personal housing be more of the same, thereby locking us out yet again?
C. Even if its not, unless it has all the same features as an FC house (gardening, chocobo stable etc) most would prefer to just be part of an fc house and have a private room now that that is readily available. So what is personal housing going to solve?

I'm grateful for the response by the dev team however I'm not quite sure what the number of wards for FC housing has to do with the number of wards for Personal housing months down the line. If its an issue of servers etc my feelings are the same as the others have mentioned. I somewhat wonder why a product was released if the servers can't handle making it available to everyone who has worked for it as you intended.

[Piddles]

The number of wards for housing, FC and Personal probably are linked in someway. For whatever reason that we have to wait, I am sure it is a good one...

[balanced123]

My server's housing districts is still extremely empty, not sure why SE is all "oh noes we're going to run out of space."

[moggy]

My server's housing districts is still extremely empty, not sure why SE is all "oh noes we're going to run out of space."

If Server A has a lower population than Server B, then they'd need less and more wards, respectively. But they're trying to keep the number of wards even - which will result in a surplus on lower population servers, and a shortage on higher population servers. For looking into things so "carefully", they're doing a very poor job at it. Hopefully it improves with feedback, as the dev said.

OP and I co-lead the same FC. We're just a small group of friends, around four of us in all who pulled funds together, and having to wait a whole other housing cycle is discouraging when it seems like a few people in this thread are claiming their server wards are empty. It's good to hear the dev team is listening, but why they would have launched something so crucial to the game without knowing if they have the "space" is beyond me.

[Wulfyn]

Don't forget they may allow FC's to own more than one plot. Some are already doing that via small satellite FC's. That does not include others starting an FC up just to buy a "personal" house in the FC wards. Housing was messed up in the beginning by just having the plots size locked. FC's wanting to upgrade to something bigger makes you wonder how SE is going to handle this. I personally wouldn't want to see FC wards get dominated by one to a few FC's.

[Yahavage]

I don't see why FCs can't just sell back land they've purchased. Make it so you can't sell it for more than the lowest it would drop to. Might encourage people not using theirs to free it up. Won't help where FCs are simply gone, but might help if someone wants to make an offer on a plot or something.

[Seif]

Umm... I hope I'm misunderstanding something here.


Surely personal housing will have it's own wards and you're not expecting us to cram into the leftovers of the FC areas?
I'm sure you are aware that people who want to buy their own house outnumber those wanting to buy one FC apartment 100:1.

I'm excited that this feature that I've waited for YEARS is FINALLY coming but I hope you really deliver since anything less than a super-awesome housing system will fail to live up to the great expectations you've built for it by talking about these additions since 1.0.

[moggy]

Surely personal housing will have it's own wards and you're not expecting us to cram into the leftovers of the FC areas?

OP and I were discussing that and didn't really understand what the rep was implying, either.

Housing needs to be accessible or otherwise outright said to be a first-come-first-serve process. SqEx made housing sound like something universal, a goal that could be reached with hard work. If personal housing is linked to FC wards, it's going to be a disaster all over again. It's been said that personal housing will be cheaper than FC housing - imagine personal housing on the same "land race" system as FC housing. 40 million gil is hard to save up, but one million gil is not. There won't be time to blink before all the wards would be full. For a lot of people, it looks like the ward system has been a tremendous failure in terms of availability, not even mentioning other issues brought up by others in this thread.

[Sadana]

Oh dear... I take it ward 6 was added Tuesday? I didn't need to check, so I didn't even think about it. I had another FC come asking for a loan to buy land yesterday before all plots were gone and I said they didn't need to worry since more wards would be added soon. ><' PLEASE add more wards! Even though personal housing will be available soon, it's not like the FCs are going to relinquish their existing house. Many players are scrounging gil to put together to buy FC land; I'd hate to see them locked out of both FC and personal housing.