Ishgard Housing Transfer System Unfair

[CalCrazy]

Also, the whole point of it was because Yoshi wants the 3 main districts to be for FC's, not personal housing. If they allow personal housers to transfer to the Ishgard apartments, then those houses free up to serve their original purpose; aka to be locations for FC's. The fact that they didn't plan ahead for this conundrum of people wanting personal housing without being connected to an FC is what caused this mess in the first place; if they'd enacted personal housing-only subdivisions then they could have probably made Ishgard have actual housing and not apartments for personal use.

[Nezerius]

Also, the whole point of it was because Yoshi wants the 3 main districts to be for FC's, not personal housing. If they allow personal housers to transfer to the Ishgard apartments, then those houses free up to serve their original purpose; aka to be locations for FC's. The fact that they didn't plan ahead for this conundrum of people wanting personal housing without being connected to an FC is what caused this mess in the first place; if they'd enacted personal housing-only subdivisions then they could have probably made Ishgard have actual housing and not apartments for personal use.

The housing transfer system has nothing to do with the apartment system, nor is the apartment system tied to Ishgard. Apartments will be a feature in the current three housing districts, since Yoshi-P commented on the apartments having different designs for each of the three housing districts.
If they ever add an Ishgard district, it'll likely have both housing plots and apartments.

As for the housing transfer system, I'm not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but it's also important for FCs that want to move to a different district without losing their company workshop progress. Currently, an FC will lose that workshop progress when relinquishing a housing plot, and it's time consuming to start it over again.

[Nihility]

sounds to me like they'll just have a way when you buy a new house for it to auto-abandon old one and maybe a temporary chest of your stuff pops up on the empty plot rather than have to lose all your stuff and tear down your old house and manually abandon it before hand

just a convenience issue, it will still empty a plot in exchange for the new one

[Ashewalker]

I'm sorry but someone has to...

[Teryaani]

Holy necromancy batman!

I'd love to see the Ishgardian housing be something other than a ward system they're using now and used for personal instanced housing only with encouragement for players to move. For high population servers, this would free up some real estate for FCs that want to get housing and also spoil (some of) the efforts of the jerks that buy up swaths of housing for resale.

[Lithe]

What if Ishgard ends up being a snowy version of the Goblet? c:

[Nandalowell]

What if Ishgard ends up being a snowy version of the Goblet? c:

Shut up and take my gil!!

[Evol]

I see so much wrong information, and if that's not the case than there are some confusing happenings in-game.

For instance, players aren't restricted to just 1 plot, as I search each district and each ward I see several plots in a row all taken by the same exact player. That makes absolutely no sense and shouldn't be allowed since there aren't even close to enough plots for everyone.

I also feel that this is just silly, make it instanced! Every single house should be instanced, instead of in a 'zone' with multiple plots. Do not limit the number of instances...and problem solved. There is no reason why a huge entity like SE can't procure enough HDD's to allow for this. Especially when you consider the cost to play - everyone should be entitled to the same content.

Also, there is so much they could do with this system - invasions, etc. Its very sorry. And systems for 'moving' or 'transferring' shouldn't be implemented until everyone has a shot at housing.

[LaylaTsarra]

For instance, players aren't restricted to just 1 plot, as I search each district and each ward I see several plots in a row all taken by the same exact player. T

Same player (account) can only buy one plot. Are you talking about alts?

[Alberel]

I see so much wrong information, and if that's not the case than there are some confusing happenings in-game.

For instance, players aren't restricted to just 1 plot, as I search each district and each ward I see several plots in a row all taken by the same exact player. That makes absolutely no sense and shouldn't be allowed since there aren't even close to enough plots for everyone.

I also feel that this is just silly, make it instanced! Every single house should be instanced, instead of in a 'zone' with multiple plots. Do not limit the number of instances...and problem solved. There is no reason why a huge entity like SE can't procure enough HDD's to allow for this. Especially when you consider the cost to play - everyone should be entitled to the same content.

Also, there is so much they could do with this system - invasions, etc. Its very sorry. And systems for 'moving' or 'transferring' shouldn't be implemented until everyone has a shot at housing.

Bit of a necro topic but fair enough...

Individual characters can only own one private plot, so I'm not sure what you think you saw with the same character owning multiple houses but it is indeed impossible. They may have made multiple alts with similar names but that's a different issue.

As for systems to move house, I think you're looking at it from the wrong perspective. There are a lot of players that currently have a house but want a different plot. They won't relinquish their current plot to move, however, as it runs the risk of them ending up with no house at all. The entire relinquishing land concept is inherently flawed as it encourages players to hold onto land they don't even want because they essentially lose gil by giving it up with no guarantee of being able to replace it. Giving players a facility by which to move house without risking losing everything in the process would actually give house owners more freedom and would see fewer plots of land being squatted.

Giving us this facility prior to a housing ward being opened up in Ishgard would be a VERY good move as it would ensure that when those new Ishgard plots open up, people would move house and open up new plots across ALL of the housing wards at the same time. This would give players opportunities to acquire land in all four cities, as well as distribute the land-grab stampede across multiple areas. In short, it would improve everyone's chances of getting something they actually want.