I actually had enough Gil for a small plot...

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That's only a solution to people in a Free Company, more importantly a Free Company with a House.

Making a FC doesn't cost anything, and if you can buy a personal house, that shouldn't be a problem if you're in an FC then either.

I would not be surprised if, after the new wards are added, rich players start buying up all the plots and selling them to FCs/individuals for insane markups.

They should've just implemented a cap on the houses you can own. Someone on my server has like 8 houses, all small/medium. And put a minimum level requirement of 50 to buy them, and a quest chain involved, so people can't just infinitely spawn alts to get around that cap.