Housing system: Land race

[zonic]

my company is just a little less then a week away from purchasing a large house we are anxiously trying to hurry up b4 our target house gets snatched up xD so we don't have to wait until Eorzea freezes over to get another shot at getting a large first class

[Nyalia]

So, in addition to the land race problem, what about the problems personal rooms bring? What if your FC wants to move to a new location or upgrade their house to a bigger one, and someone with a room is taking a break from the game and can't be reached to vacate their room? About 40 people in my FC have personal rooms already. If we want to upgrade our house to a mansion, do we just lose the 12,000,000 gil that has been spent unlocking personal rooms in addition to all the unremovable furniture?

Why do we even need to lose our Personal Rooms when our FC moves? Realistically, it's not like 40 rooms (each of which are bigger than the first floor of the house!) could really fit in the house anyway. The realism of going to a new house and having a different room isn't even there. These rooms HAVE to be some kind of pocket dimension or other form of magical construct or else they wouldn't fit in the house. Why can't we take the entrance to this pocket dimension with us when we move? Why are Personal Houses linked directly to the house itself and not to us, the player who bought them?

I don't get it.

[xXsuperbananaXx]

Has it been confirmed chocobo stables are only for FC houses or will we be able to use them in personal housing too?

[Ryuko]

The race to get the ideal plot is indeed an uncomfortable one. I stayed up all night to snag my FC's plot as soon as the servers went up... and I'm glad I did. Three mediums in ward 6 of the lavender beds were taken within an hour of the servers being up (one by me). I was the first person to get a house, but only because someone told me that the servers went up almost two hours earlier than they were supposed to... 5am my time as opposed to 7am. I would have been really disappointed if I had woken up the next day and the best plots were gone. As of now (almost three days after the patch went live), the new ward for lavender beds seems about half full. I haven't checked the other areas.

I do hope they'll be introducing more wards in the future, so the desire to get a plot isn't halted by the lack of available housing. My FC found it really hard to be patient for all the months every medium was gone on my server and we were waiting on the sixth wards (2.3). At the same time, I do understand that there needs to be some exclusivity to which plots are available. (We do pay more money for 'prime real estate' after all.) I just think they should release new wards more frequently. Hopefully the wait for ward 7 won't be as long as the wait between the original wards and ward 6.

[moggy]

I do understand that there needs to be some exclusivity to which plots are available. (We do pay more money for 'prime real estate' after all.)

I think you're right. The issue, as Nyalia said about personal rooms, is we're dealing with pocket-dimension areas where real life concepts like 'prime real estate' are hard in a game where hundreds of people vie for plots. Obviously, there aren't 6 neighbourhoods with 20 identical small houses in 20 identical spots. We have to take the realistic aspect of things like prime real estate with a grain of salt. The "exclusivity" is already there; not everyone is going to have 50 million gil to spend, and that's okay. OP and I run a FC of only four friends who will never see that kind of gil, so we're content with the small houses. The exclusivity is affording prime real estate to begin with. Introducing wards constantly would keep that exclusivity rewarding - and would reduce the need to stay up all night, I hope.

[BroodingFicus]

Oh wait, chocobo's can be different colors! Neat!-What do you mean I need a stable? Oh, those are only in FC houses? *cranes eyebrow* I hate to bring this up but I was agitated enough to go find old letters released after the outrage of housings release.

There was a lot of talk about making prices high so that they would not all get bought up, about wanting everyone to have access to it. There was talk of not wishing other players to be left out - even though they possess the gil - for extended periods of time. From Balmungs point of view, that is whats happening. Maybe its not right to drag the awkward dead horse into the living room again but it all wearing thin. I have yet to hear a valid plan of how to solve this other than wait. Has anyone heard word elsewhere? This seems to be an issue that rises up and then disappears as soon as someone makes a vague statement that, once again, mostly just amounts to 'wait'.

[BroodingFicus]

Sadly true. A lot of servers are fine or have empty lots. Frankly I'd consider moving if we hadn't worked so hard to get our fc up and if I didn't have five chars. I'd want to move with me. Currently every time I see a colored chocobo I have the strangest impulse to stare and then shut the game off. I keep wanting to send someone a memo that we are paying to play /every/ aspect of the game. Well also this keeps running through my head:

Around 30 lots (I don't wholly remember because I only check now and then in hopes of in activity)

Six wards: Ok 180 lots.

Three ares: Ok 540ish total....

Who thought that would be enough to support the larger servers? Personal housing doesn't particularly sooth me since unless we can add private rooms its useless.

[xjia]

Totally agree with what BroodingFicus said. Ive already got a friendly, helpful FC

but im looking foward to personal house, cuz
1.Own front yard (own decoration-with lots of plants where i can sit and relax.
2.Own garden ( where i can test/plant whatever i want ), chocobo stable
3.my own indoor furniture

For me, It doest matters whether personal house will be able to add private rooms or not.

[mcgoo94]

When personal housing comes out there better be about 50 wards................(not that much but you know..) The amount of QQ that will happen when people don't get a house will be insane.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

Me and a friend are desperately trying to rank up high enough to grab a house when 2.4 drops (literally 30% left on the bar until it unlocks). It's really just the two of us right now in the FC and we're hoping to be able to draw more people once we actually have a residence.

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I thought I saw that if a house isn't used for a certain period of time, that it becomes abandoned and goes up for sale again. I would personally just try and check the wards every time you get on in hopes that maybe someone's grown inactive enough.