New Housing Wards for Balmung, please!

[Xefjord]

I agree with all his points on the mark. Although for an FC all its members need to be inactive for it to remove the plot. So that way if an FC leader is gone then they can still retain their place. If it is owned by a player? Them is it possible to leave for FC, make your house the FC house? Then just designate people to watch it? That sounds like it would allow you to keep your house. While still rulling out the people who are REALLY gone.

[Bluevann]

Please do not take my house if I have to AFK for a few months unexpectedly TnT

If they did add the feature, you could prevent that by simply not unsubscribing and actually USE the house plot you took from other potential owners. It's no matter how much effort you put into something. If you don't use it, you don't need it. 10-15€/$ a month is not that big of an issue to pay for to keep a house, or hell, just have an FC mate log in and actually use the house to keep it up. It's just really sad to me how many people don't seem to use their houses daily as I do. Wards are ghost towns at the moment (and the funny thing is that Yoshida said they implemented neighborhoods because players demanded them. I wonder where those are players now? Maybe waiting for their house still.)

It's nothing personal and I share your feelings, but remember that house owners consist of 2% of the population, so they're still a minority and the uprage wouldn't be that great, not bigger than the uproar that was had when housing and personal housing were first implemented. And most important of all, the efforts and understandable feelings of a few (like yourself) are not superior to the amounts of currently abandoned ghost houses of players that will probably never return that are right now in the oldest wards. I've made my searches and though I cannot put down names, I know there's at least 3-4 long abandoned FC houses in each housing areas as of now.

[Clover_Blake]

I agree that housing should be based on server demand, and Balmung definitely needs more. With the upcoming 3.0 update where FCs can build airships in their houses, it'd be a good idea to release more house plots in the most populated servers, so that everyone will stand a chance >_<
Please SE, don't leave many people out of both housing and some of the new content.

Edit: I also agree with the post above mine. If losing a house after a few months of being completely inactive sounds unfair to some, leaving tons of ghost houses and stealing active people's chances to enjoy the house system sounds worse to me. No one can decide when people will be back or if they ever will, so it feels unfair to wait for them forever while other players are locked out of the content.

[Bluevann]

To be perfectly honest I don't like how this is per Balmung specific only and that people suggested that this issue be taken away from General Discussion or Housing for that matter. It doesn't get this the type of attention or feedback this deserves. It's not just a Balmung issue either, as other high-population servers have been said to experience the same issues..

I agree, but I do have a few reasons for posting here instead, mainly being:

- Threads in General Discussion flow way too quickly, and I'm worried the thread would be pushed down to the back-pages fast.
- Posting in Housing and GD usually leads to a lot of comments of the type: "Oh, but my server still has plenty of plots." or "Leave our servers alone, don't take our wards." or "Why don't you just change server then?"
- If developers respond, they'll usually give a very general replies ("We are monitoring the situation in all servers.") in which they point out that not all servers are full.

So, yes, I wanted Balmung's case in particular to be examined. Of course, players of other servers in similar situations could do the same in their respective sections too.

[Quinnie]

I agree with many of the points said here, although oppose that people should lose their housing if they've not played for a couple of months. Or it were to happen it only applies to active servers as mentioned above, and is a temporary solution. Another idea would be that people are limited on the amount of houses (as many have several houses here) they have per account or per world - in particular if you're playing on an already restricted world like Balmung.

More plots please SE!

[Theodric]

I definitely think that housing should be available to everybody. Make the gil/time sink aspect the acquisition of exotic and exclusive furniture rather than the horrid process of trying to earn enough gil to buy a plot that may not even be available by the time you manage to scrape together enough coin to purchase one. It's a great investment since if it's more readily available and affordable then the game's economy benefits from it and many players will indulge in building something that they find special and want to invest in. Plus there's all sorts of nifty perks/features that can be baked into player housing as the game evolves.

[KihtJakkya]

I would also like to note that not having housing available right now is sort of demotivating. I would be doing so much more PVE/crafting content to make gil if my FC had a house to look forward to. Yes, we are saving up still, but very slowly. I've been just doing some SBing at Urth's Gift. Why bother with the grind if there is nothing to grind for?

[dioxideUniversa]

I don't care for the idea of instanced housing. It'd be better than no housing at all, for sure, but I like being able to see other people's housing & other superficial benefits.

They need to just actually make enough wards to meet server demand. If it's a problem on low-pop servers, then restrict ward access. I severely doubt it's a complicated fix.

[Bluevann]

A lil nudge hoping for some more feedback!

[Krevan]

I'm on Balmung as well, can't express how frustrating it is that not a single plot is open for my FC. Wards should be added based on server availability. Not blanketed across the smaller servers that will not be filled up. I really hope they take notice of this situation.