The Housing problem and my proposed solution

[Jynx]

The good thing is that it's almost universally agreed upon that something, anything needs to be done about housing. It needs to be accessable in some way, shape or form to the mass populace.

This is why I suggest using a existing system and incorperate it into the Company Housing without damaging the current system freeing up space for companies to procure housing, and giving the individual players even within these companies a space to call their own and to customize as they see fit.

[KaedrianLiang]

The solution is to tie plot/house ownership to your subscription. If you don't pay the bills, you will lose your home. Plot is vacated and up for grabs again. Really if they aren't playing the game for ANY reason, they don't need a in game house, they are not using. On many servers majority of player owned plots have been abandoned by unsubscribing players.

Think about it, how does it feel, when unsubscribing players are using up dead space within the in-game world long after their passing? While consistent subscribers that have been wanting a FC hall or a personal house sit there being slapped in the face til the end of time because of this lack of oversight.

My heart goes out to all those poor chocobos that are sitting in the stables left to fend for themselves.

[Ferr]

The solution is to tie plot/house ownership to your subscription. If you don't pay the bills, you will lose your home. Plot is vacated and up for grabs again. Really if they aren't playing the game for ANY reason, they don't need a in game house, they are not using. On many servers majority of player owned plots have been abandoned by unsubscribing players.

Think about it, how does it feel, when unsubscribing players are using up dead space within the in-game world long after their passing? While consistent subscribers that have been wanting a FC hall or a personal house sit there being slapped in the face til the end of time because of this lack of oversight.

My heart goes out to all those poor chocobos that are sitting in the stables left to fend for themselves.

That's not a solution. There's still not enough plots for everyone, even if you keep kicking inactives.

[Malzian]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3263878

Also, they mentioned I the live letter that they are planning on a mechanism to remove inactive houses. They're working on it, it's just going to take time. They can't just add more plots because it would affect server stability due to the same issue that makes it difficult for them to add inventory space (that the servers save data twice as often as other MMOs do). Patience... And for the record, I don't have an FC or personal house, either so I would like it to be fixed too. But I'd rather see it fixed in an effective manner then just slapping more land on that will just go the same way as all of the previous plots if you're not the first to log on seconds after the servers go live when they do add them...

[Stormrider]

So I had a curious message last night. I can't remember the exact words, it was houses full try again later. Like we get message for to many people doing certain dungeons in the past. So my question is the inside of the house is instanced right? Does this mean the servers they have can't handle the meager amount of housing we have now?


Sorry should have been more specific. It is not the ward itself it is the house. So can get into the ward but yoou would be locked out of your FC house and in turn locked out of your FC room.

[Bishop81]

So I had a curious message last night. I can't remember the exact words, it was houses full try again later. Like we get message for to many people doing certain dungeons in the past. So my question is the inside of the house is instanced right? Does this mean the servers they have can't handle the meager amount of housing we have now?

The wards are instanced - that's why there is a loading screen. But I believe they never "unload" from the server even if there is no one in them, hence the "need more servers" answer from SE.

Stupid design IMHO.

[Nadirah]

The wards are instanced - that's why there is a loading screen. But I believe they never "unload" from the server even if there is no one in them, hence the "need more servers" answer from SE.

Stupid design IMHO.

In EQ2, if there aren't a certain number of people in the house(even guild houses) after 30 minutes of inactivity(go afk) they boot you outside and close the instance for stress reasons.

[Nadirah]

@Preypacer, on top of it, EQ2 has an incredibly large community of folks that do nothing *but* interior decorating for in game money.

it's pretty crazy. Norrathian Roadshow, ho!!!

Edit: For the love of the Gods, stop trying to connect housing even more into FCs.

I don't have a room, and never will, because I don't want my house attached to my FC.

[Reaperking386]

As Yoshi P. once said..."too much for the servers."

[Zephyranthes]

As Yoshi P. once said..."too much for the servers."

Somebody should directly reply to him in an interview to upgrade the servers and what they're doing with our money then. They're getting more subscribers and money anyway right? Why keep the quality of the server the same for 3M and 1M subscribers? In a proper business perspective, this is the logical thing to do.