Balmung is indeed one of the special cases I suppose though hardly the only one. Considering the servers that suffer are obviously the largest, its hardly fair to expect them to suffer because other servers are rolling in land. Im afraid I'm with swordrain on this. I am paying a company for my own enjoyment. I have played other mmo's. Never have I been locked out of content, given that I was willing to work for/toward it. No amount of work is going to guarantee that you can get a house on a larger server but not getting one will certainly continue to exclude you from more and more content. Also, doubling the amount will as you said, not benefit larger servers.