So considering the size of the servers....

[ariaandkia]

Housing topic (sorry, hit wrong button)

Why can't we have 14 wards per district per server? I say 14 because ff14, though really I think we should have more.

I mean, right now, there is such a heavy limit on housing locations so those prices really do hurt the pocket. However, if there were more houses, then there wouldn't need to be such a heavy rush to buy houses and the prices would actually go down over time instead of everyone fighting to grab them the very moment one drops enough in price.

So here are my proposed thoughts:

1) Increase the number of wards along with the size of each ward.

2) Increase the percentage of large/medium houses. Instead of 10% (3 per 30), 20% (6 per 30) large houses would make it so that more people can acquire a large house, which is likely the goal of many players. Right now, medium is about 23% (7 per 30). If we could bump that up to about 40% (12 per 30), that would allow more people to get at least a medium house. With that said, if they double the ward sizes, I'd like to see somewhere around 12 Large, 24 Medium, and 24 Small per ward.

3) Set a limit of 1 FC house and 1 Player house per account per server.

4) Add housing in the Mor Dhona/Coerthas area.

5) (not sure if this is already the case) After a certain amount of time has passed since the player (or FC-any member of) last logged in or got service (whichever is more recent), say 6 to 12 months, the house is released and the player can pick up their items next time they log in, if ever.

6) upgrade-able houses. If we could slightly rearrange the plots so that we could actually expand on the plots, we could potentially have it so everyone starts with a small house and then slowly work their way up to a large house through expansions and upgrades.

These would make housing more available to player and provide players with more chances to get larger housing which are severely limited at this time.

[Anarnee]

They are doubling the amount of wards in 2.4

[ariaandkia]

They are doubling the amount of wards in 2.4

I think adding more wards would be just as important though. Simply doubling the amount of wards will only help so much.

Think of it this way: Right now we have.... 30 per ward? With 8 wards, and 3 housing districts, that is ideally 720 houses? Doubling that would make it 1440 houses.

Now, Here is the big issue: Number of large houses. These are what many people are aiming for and thus the biggest competition and is what is really breaking the pocket.

That is what? 3 per ward? So 8 wards is 24, 3 districts is 72. Double that would be 144?

Now, if we could get get more wards, even just 14 wards....

14*2*9=28*9=252 large houses.

Assuming that each of the top 100 FCs (counting active size specifically) were to get large houses, That would leave 44 personal houses in the first case where they only double it and 152 in the second case where they also add more wards.

Plus, 14 would be a nice number for beauty reasons. I do kind of hope that they add housing to the mor dhona/coerthas area in addition to that though.

[Rufalus]

They are just gonna keep adding as many as they technically can, as quickly as they can. It's just taking some time to develop. It's not a deliberate choice to restrict us to so few wards.

[Shneibel]

They are doubling the amount of wards in 2.4

by say double the amount of wards can mean :

1. the wards we have atm will be double
2. the wards add will be double

so dont bet on anything, yet

[MilesSaintboroguh]

they could have 100 wards and people would still get left out.

[Vaer]

There are actually 24 wards per server. They are just split between Lavender Beds/Mist/The Goblet.

[ariaandkia]

There are actually 24 wards per server. They are just split between Lavender Beds/Mist/The Goblet.

Sorry, I wrote that wrong and corrected it now.

Btw, does anyone have a link to where it says that they are doubling the wards?

[Ouria]

Sorry, I wrote that wrong and corrected it now.

Btw, does anyone have a link to where it says that they are doubling the wards?

Here.

[EdwinLi]

well If I remember right each server can hold up to 7000 or more characters.

then add in the additional characters added into the server by new players or existing players (increasing the demand to above 7000 or more) there is still not enough land to provide for majority of the players in High/medium populated servers even if all players have the gil to buy housing.