More houses?

[Oreic]

They've stated that the feel that the number of housing is sufficient at the moment, which is total bollocks. However, we're stuck waiting anyways because the housing team is working on the Golden Saucer. And I believe they said that instead of focusing on adding more wards, they are going to improve housing instead. So...congrats to the people that own housing and get to enjoy said updates.

[MistyMew]

They've stated that the feel that the number of housing is sufficient at the moment, which is total bollocks. However, we're stuck waiting anyways because the housing team is working on the Golden Saucer. And I believe they said that instead of focusing on adding more wards, they are going to improve housing instead. So...congrats to the people that own housing and get to enjoy said updates.

Please don't be that way, those improvements to housing are needed!! I am very vocal about what housing in here is lacking compared to Rift and make it a goal to try and get as much of that design in here one day hopefully.
Housing could have been so engaging and creative but currently it is not.

I own a FC home and a personal home and I am always in these threads trying to convince se to add more homes so ALL its player base can own what they want.
I will continue to support any thread that asks for more housing as I feel in a modern mmo, thinking so small is the worst thing a game can do.

I hope they do add as many as needed, I'm certain they have developers specific for each type of "content" housing changes do not affect dungeon design/raid teams...so those saying not to focus on housing is taking away from other content are wrong.

SE please do add many more homes...options to sell to other players would be nice too. I would have sold my personal home long ago if there was a realistic way for others to buy it without having to pay 2x as it is now for them.
Even if we could only resell back to SE if ppl are worried about players controlling too many homes etc...resell to SE for what we paid etc...

[Zelas]

SE please do add many more homes...options to sell to other players would be nice too. I would have sold my personal home long ago if there was a realistic way for others to buy it without having to pay 2x as it is now for them.

Ugh, this exactly.

I want to buy a home for my (small) FC, but there is NO way we could afford to pay twice for it. And that's IF we find someone who's even willing to sell to us. There HAS to be some way to resell a house that'd be fair to both parties. Right now, it's unfair to both, as sellers don't get back all of their money, and buyers have to pay twice, which makes no sense to me.

It'd be nice to at least have an official word as to if they're at least working on it, or if they have any plans for the (hopefully near) future...

[TheHubby]

I think it's FAAAAAAAR more important that the devs provide a LOT more housing than make it nicer for the chosen few who have a house. The fact they said there was enough housing shows just how far out of touch with reality the devs are. Of course, I've also head that the devs only pay attention to the Japanese forums, so we're probably all spinning our wheels here.

Ok Square, a challenge in 2 parts:

1. Reply to this thread with feedback.
2. Create a lot more housing.

Pass the challenge and I will happily post on every forum how I am wrong and you guys rock.


We'll see what happens next, I suppose.

[tocsin]

okay.

1. there have already been over a hundred posts made on this.

2. Housing was classified as met, because there are plots enough for the average amount of gil, as of last august. there ahs been a lot more gil, yes, but it still applies.

3. although housing is full on adamantoise and balmung, you are still free to transfer elsewhere. encouraged even. Housing is the "Carrot" to help SE balance server load.

4. no new wards until after 3.0. Already been announced. As they said, the Cash shop money is being used to fund the new EU datacenter, and the Heavensward money may be enough to upgrade the servers to support more subdivisions.

5. Exodus is far from the largest NA server. Balmung alone has it beaten by almost twice the amount of players.

6. Alternatively, if people aren't willing to wait, I think SE should use the "Stick" instead of the carrot. Close all new characters on Balmung, leviathan, Gilgamesh, and any other overfilled server until the population lowers. Zero new characters, at any time. Additionally, disincentives should be given to players who refuse to cooperate.

TL;DR there is plenty of housing, but players are not willing to put in the effort/money to get it, and would prefer it handed to them on a silver platter.

[noobalmost]

I've googled but couldn't find it, is there a website that displays available plots by server and location?

[Nyalia]

I've googled but couldn't find it, is there a website that displays available plots by server and location?

Not that I know of, but to check your own server, go to the Aetheryte in one of the main cities and check the Residential Aethernet. You can browse through the wards and subdivisions for that city to see who owns which house (and if they are an individual or FC, and if the house is open or closed to the public) and which ones are up for sale (and for how much).


By the by - what happens when someone transfers to a new server? Does their house go back on the market, or does it remain locked out? Or can you not transfer without destroying and relinquishing your house?

[Dererk]

Please no new wards at lest for now let the devs work on more fun open world content before going in to this stuff again.

[Talia_Hailwind]

Cerberus has about 7-8 medium houses and 2-3 large left in the lavender beds. With all the most popular plots gone.

[Twinbros]

Yea their housing needs are for sure not being meet on Balmung. They need to separate our server from the rest of the servers at treat it as a stand alone server. Sure the housing needs on the lower populated servers might be meet, but Balmung's housing demand is still through the roof. Stop treating our server like the low population servers and add more damn wards! Balmung needs at least 10 more wards added to each district.