Limit Plots buyable

[OoglieBooglie]

Honestly, there's still too many people who want houses. Yes, this would potentially eliminate scalpers, but the demand still exceeds the supply. Remember how Balmung sold out in like 20 minutes or whatever? There was still like a queue of 2000 people trying to log in then. 720 (or whatever the amount was, it was around there if I recall correctly) new plots will not satisfy an entire server full of people + 2000 trying to log in. Sure, some of them are scalpers, but do you really think the people who wanted a house for themselves among that entire server capacity + 2000 is less than 720?

[Avera]

This has been suggested by other people, myself included...unfortunately I doubt much will come of it.

[Syrehn]

What I would have liked to see them do was:

Make the main wards for FC's and the sub-wards for personal. In theory if they implemented this now, they could grandfather anyone with a personal on a primary ward into their existing plot. If they end up losing the property then it goes back up for sale for FC's only.

Additionally, I 100% agree with the 1 personal house/1FC house per account per server idea. While it wouldn't be enough for everyone it would have eased some of the strain between the times they add new wards/sub-wards. Again, in theory this would be easy enough to grandfather players into. If you have multiple houses on alts on the same account/server and you lose one (decay timer) you can't get another on that toon.

[OliviaJ]

As much as I can agree with you guys I will also have to disagree. This is a large pop server problem. There are those of us on lower pop servers that not only do not have this problem but also don't want these solutions. What about those players who intentionally go to lower pop servers because they like playing sally home maker? The patch came out 20 days ago. There are still houses on my server, although the number is dwindling. I feel once the apartments and/if Ishgard housing comes out it will be absolutely no problem for MOST of the servers for players to find housing. Find another solution, like fair plot selling.

[Syrehn]

As much as I can agree with you guys I will also have to disagree. This is a large pop server problem. There are those of us on lower pop servers that not only do not have this problem but also don't want these solutions. What about those players who intentionally go to lower pop servers because they like playing sally home maker? The patch came out 20 days ago. There are still houses on my server, although the number is dwindling. I feel once the apartments and/if Ishgard housing comes out it will be absolutely no problem for MOST of the servers for players to find housing. Find another solution, like fair plot selling.

Nope sorry, don't agree. There is literally not 1 single reason, regardless of what server they are on, that would justify 1 person owning multiple plots on a single account other than personal greed; which really blows for the rest of the community with such a limited resource.

It could be because they like decorating and feel since there is no restriction in place they have the right to own as much property as they please, they might want multiple gardens, airships etc. That's still individual greed and that takes away from those who don't have housing; it is flat out inconsiderate and selfish.

Yes, Ishgard apartments will help, yes the decay timer does somewhat help when it's active, all these things added together help but allowing 1 person to potentially own 8 houses per account is stupid.

Another thing that should be added that might help, especially for players who do have multiple alts, is the ability to share their own personal house with their alts.

What they should do imo, is grandfather anyone with multiple properties into their houses and change the rule structure to 1 personal/1 FC per account/server and if you lose one of your 2+ houses for w/e reason you won't be able to buy another.

I also agree that they should put in some kind of plot selling feature to allow players to legally/fairly resell their plots if they don't want them anymore without having to wait the 45 days or w/e to get a % of their gil back.

[Sakuraluna]

As much as I can agree with you guys I will also have to disagree. This is a large pop server problem. There are those of us on lower pop servers that not only do not have this problem but also don't want these solutions. What about those players who intentionally go to lower pop servers because they like playing sally home maker? The patch came out 20 days ago. There are still houses on my server, although the number is dwindling. I feel once the apartments and/if Ishgard housing comes out it will be absolutely no problem for MOST of the servers for players to find housing. Find another solution, like fair plot selling.

So you're basically saying that you want players on high pop servers like mine to continue to struggle to get access to personal or even FC housing in a lot of cases, just so you can buy up multiple houses on your own server. Not gonna agree with you there regardless of server population. Others deserve a chance to access this content too. And higher pop servers certainly don't need to take a back seat to those with lower populations. If anything, I have seen it suggested numerous times that wards should be added according to the population of each server.

[worldofneil]

So, in a case like mine where I can only afford one sub but have two character (mine and my wife's) then only one of us should be able to decorate even though both were progressed enough and earned enough gil to support it?

Sorry that I'm not replying to the topic itself, but I don't know if you're aware that account sharing is against the ToS and has the potential to get your entire account banned. What you do with your account is none of my business and is between you and SE, but I certainly wouldn't publicise you're sharing an account on the official forums.

[Syrehn]

So, in a case like mine where I can only afford one sub but have two character (mine and my wife's) then only one of us should be able to decorate even though both were progressed enough and earned enough gil to support it? Even when in week three there are still some available? What's this shortage you are talking about? Oh, ridiculously high population server with players that are ripping each other off on two or three servers. I'll agree with one point. They should have figured out a way to add more wards to your server. I will never agree to changing the terms of the rules that were set for gameplay to satisfy overpopulated worlds.

Even though it's not possible I would love to see instanced housing in the worlds that are wishing all of this on the low pop servers. Leave us out of the fight.

Syrehn I like your opinion for the most part though. I might not agree with it all but I respect it if that's worth anything.

While I can see where you're coming from you might want to be careful about admitting to account sharing; it's against the TOS.

That being said your case would be a prime example of where, if they ever allowed property sharing between alts, you could both utilize 1 residence. You could divide the decorating up depending on the size of lot purchased. Maybe each take a floor?

The issue with instanced housing is that instances still require SE to save data so it wouldn't necessarily solve the problem the way people think. It essentially equal's out to "more wards" anyway since it's all about their data storage architecture.

[OliviaJ]

Thanks for the heads up and keeping it civil. What's the purpose of having multiple characters then? Very odd. Help with the quotes?