Lack of Housing - Still an Issue

[Grimmel]

I was a little upset that a question on the first page of one of the "Ask questions for Producer Live" Which questioned if and when more housing would be introduced went unanswered after gaining a lot of interest from likes.

The issue in lack of housing still exists on a lot of servers. Balmung being one with zero plots available and still many Free Companies without a house.

[DragonFlyy]

Was stated recently that since most servers have available housing, they feel it's fine the way it is. Hurts the servers that don't have availability, but they are all linked so adding more housing to the full ones would add more empty housing to the ones with availability, eating up more server resources. Personally, they should make the housing separate per server. That way if Balmung needs 20 wards but another lower pop server only needs 5, they could do just that. As it stands now, if one server has 10 wards, they all do, regardless of availability, which sucks.

[Fenral]

Logic.

To begin with, even if scalable instanced housing was never in their design spec, the current system should have been designed to create wards on-demand, with each new ward taken from a data-center specific quota (which could be increased over time). If there are worlds (not going to call them servers, because each is actually a server cluster linked to the other worlds) with empty or mostly unused housing wards, the resources being used to maintain those empty zones should go towards maintaining a new ward on a more populated world.

I think what they want is for housing to be a contributing factor to the evening-out of world populations, but it's not nearly enough of a motivator on its own. And who would even want to leave a world like Balmung or Gilgamesh (except to go to the other)?

[Aeyis]

And who would even want to leave a world like Balmung or Gilgamesh (except to go to the other)?

There's your housing problem right there.

[TinyMonster]

There's your housing problem right there.

We shouldn't have to change severs which means family, friends, FC mates for a feature in the game that should be available to everyone.

[Aeyis]

We shouldn't have to change severs which means family, friends, FC mates for a feature in the game that should be available to everyone.

The problem is that many people keep joining the full servers despite them already being...full.


Small wonder that the wards are filled if everyone only wants to join the big servers.

[Grimmel]

There's your housing problem right there.

To add salt to the wound; people continue to transfer to Balmung despite there being no housing. It's just adding more stress to the server. They should lock server transfers to certain servers until they can figure out a way to get people to get off those over populated servers.

[Fenral]

There's your housing problem right there.

I've been on Gilgamesh since before there was housing. I shouldn't have to move servers for a feature I expected to have access to on my home server.

[Grimmel]

Which pisses me off, to be quite frank. I can't count myself among the problem. Balmung was my server from the very beginning of 2.0. I don't know -why- it's become as overpopulated as it is, but I certainly didn't ask for it. So I don't see why I should be punished for that, or why I should be the one telling my Free Company: "Well, we're SoL. Let's leave all of our friends behind and move elsewhere so we can enjoy 3.0 content!"

Balmung is also my home server since Beta. (This is my second account that I post on.) And like I mentioned before; Server transfers need to be restricted if not completely stopped to over populated servers like Balmung/Gilgamesh/other servers. I can't begin to count how many "New to the server looking for a FC/LS" Party Finders or shouts I've seen the past few months..

[Grimmel]

I've been on Gilgamesh since before there was housing. I shouldn't have to move servers for a feature I expected to have access to on my home server.

It's the same feeling I have here on Balmung. :\