An idea for housing plot shortages

[Set-Abominae]

there is no solution because there will never been enough small plots for everybody. no matter how many wards are added the cheap houses will be gone in a hurry, i see plenty of empty plots in every ward i visit but few if any are the cheap small house, which means all the people complaining dont want to put 12 million into a house they just want to blame SE. if you want the house so so badly you can work and save up to buy it just like real life, nothing gets handed to you

[MilesSaintboroguh]

there is no solution because there will never been enough small plots for everybody. no matter how many wards are added the cheap houses will be gone in a hurry, i see plenty of empty plots in every ward i visit but few if any are the cheap small house, which means all the people complaining dont want to put 12 million into a house they just want to blame SE. if you want the house so so badly you can work and save up to buy it just like real life, nothing gets handed to you

Start looking outside your own server. Other servers have no plots open at all and no one here is complaining about the price of housing at all.

[Set-Abominae]

Start looking outside your own server. Other servers have no plots open at all and no one here is complaining about the price of housing at all.

maybe you should get off the most heavily populated server then instead of complaining there are too many people here

[Kio]

I wonder if it would be possible rather than make more neighborhood zones, which is a model that isn't sustainable as already proven in this game, to make a single house instanced zone instead. Each housing district has a path to nowhere, it would be nice if instead it lead to just a single plot that only created once the owner entered it. It would make it possible for everyone to own a personal house of any size.

[Amenian]

Any solution that involves people losing the house they already have is no solution at all.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Could you kindly point out where I have said either of those things? Oh btw, I'm with a FC that has a house, but thanks for playing!

[ExKage]

I have a medium house and my FC has a house. The solution to housing shortages should not be "transfer to a different server" because you realistically can't just say "transfer to a different server away from the 300+ people you interact with over the course of a week"

Then you will want to transfer the 1000+ people those 300+ people interact with in the course of a week too? That's hilarious and ludicrous.

[CYoung187]

What a ground-breaking idea. I doubt anyone thought of adding new wards. We already know why they aren't adding new wards, it's a server space issue. Your solution does not fix that. Only way for everyone to have a place is instanced apartments or something of that sort. Even if they add more wards there will still be people left out and complaining about it.

[MageBlack]

Or they could take the empty ward servers from the unpopulated servers and give it to the servers that have been full since they added them. Or you could transfer you and your FC to a less populated server at $20 a pop. Or they could actually make personal housing instanced for each individual so EVERYONE is guaranteed a personal house. Or they could ignore the problem altogether because its "working as intended."

either way, they have already said that the team that did housing is now working on the Gold saucer and wont even have time to look into housing until after 3.0 drops.

[Catwho]

I'm with the "haven't paid for the game in six months you lose your house" crowd. I'd say, even refund the purchase price of the plot and the permit to the player via Mog Mail in the chance they do resubscribe and have their belongings sent over to the housing NPCs like they were kicked from a FC. This should also apply to FC housing where no one in the FC has logged in for six months. Last person promoted to the FC leadership gets the house's money.

In the real world we call a neighborhood with abandoned housing like that "urban blight." Just because the houses aren't going to physically decay doesn't make them any less abandoned.