Why not just add instanced housing?

[EthanParcival]

I've asked myself that same question for months... Why oh why do they insist on keeping the god damned wards which will always be insufficient.

By now they should allow us to just buy a floating island (of the size we can afford and have Cid tow it to the housing ward of our choosing in a cute cutscene) and then we'd build our house there just like we do on the regular wards... And we'd get an "Island Number" as our address.

As such our homes would be individually loaded and not have to be "always loaded in memory" on a ward server. They'd be loaded when someone teleports to them and unload when the last person leaves them (just like dungeons do). And they'd only reachable by teleport.

If you want to make it a neighbourhood then allow said islands to be linked to 4 more other houses (north, south, east, west) by "allagan jumping pads" or teleports (linked to the island number of our friends). Both tenants would have to agree they want to be linked and could unlink at any time. That way you'd have a neighbourhood with your friends, and not complete strangers...

I really don't care if the residential caretakers and other NPCs are stationed near the big aetherites in the large cities and that we don't have marketboards, we can go to a city for those.

But nooo... they have to keep them frigging wards... *sigh*

TL;DR They should let us buy islands from abalathia's spine and tow it to the housing areas an let us build there isolated (instanced separatedly) from the wards.