Quote Originally Posted by Yeldir View Post
Alternatively, if you're one of those build more ward types, what would you say when those wards filled up with dead houses, too?
Dynamic re-instancing could be a possible solution. Inactive players will not /lose/ their house, but instead after a few months be moved to an instanced version. If they return, they can enter their instanced house as normal, and if there becomes room available in a ward they can place their house back in a ward.

That way you are not removing them of all of their gil and hard work (Remember large houses can cost upwards of 90m on larger servers!), but you are not making them use up the 'valuable resources' in the wards. It will move inactives to their own instance.

Also instanced personal housing should be an option as an alternative to wards. You lose the small feeling of 'community' at the price of opening housing to literally everyone that plays the game, seems like an OK tradeoff to me.

Heck you can even add neighbors to your instanced housing like some MMOs do. I would much much, /much/ rather be housed next to my friends than the random people that my house is next to right now. I do not know any of them (I did say hi and the like, they were not interested)