How many lots will actually open up?

[AnnietheCat]

As much as I adore my private house, I really feel they dropped the ball with the fc and private housing. if private housing was in it's own separate neighborhood, separate from fc neighborhoods, and were cheaper than fc plots, it would help a lot. But because people are working so hard to get millions upon millions of gil in order to buy a personal place, no one is willing to let them go, no matter how little they use them. That's most of the reasoning as to why people don't just give up the plots that they don't use. If there was more garden space, people wouldn't buy 4 houses on the same server just so they could do gardening. Or if people could share their private estates with their alts, they'd have little to no reason to buy another house with their alt. There are many, many ways SE could ease the problems with housing, and yet they chose this path. I'm inclined to follow Gyson's line of reasoning because of that.