Choosing a Server - What to consider

[Sectorbob]

I'd personally pick a higher population server; it is like having the perks of living in a big city without having to deal with obnoxious neighbors and traffic. But if you may ever want a house, I'd stay away from the highest pop servers (Balmung, Excalibur, Gilgamesh, etc).

I think I would find the higher population more exciting. I can't say the whole house-thing has really interested me. Maybe you all could shine light as to what is so interesting about it?

[Neuflune]

I think I would find the higher population more exciting. I can't say the whole house-thing has really interested me. Maybe you all could shine light as to what is so interesting about it?

Personally, I only see three reasons to ever want a house:

1) To dress it up and show it off.
2) Chocobo training.
3) Gardening.

That said, you could always join a free company that has a house, instead of buying one for yourself. I lead a small FC and instead of buying my own house, I paid for 75% of a Medium house (the rest came from the other members) and we all work together on it. I also gave them some gil to make their private rooms in the house.

I'd invite you to our server to try out the FC and housing things, but I'm in Carbuncle, a very Japanese server. It works perfectly fine for me and my other friends who have little trouble communicating (and you can just queue E in the Duty Finder anyway to play with English-speakers from servers like Tonberry and Atomos), but language barrier can be a hurdle for most.