Please consider: Apartments to those that don't own a house first.

[Gallus]

Part of the reason we got here is because of people's greed in regards to houses...and now you are asking those who brought us here not to greed again. Sounds like a very poor plan xD.

[Archaell]

Part of the reason we got here is because of people's greed in regards to houses...and now you are asking those who brought us here not to greed again. Sounds like a very poor plan xD.

If you are talking about OP, they are asking SE to block the house owners from being able to buy apartments for a week. That's doing something evil on the premise of doing good.

In my opinion Yoshida learnt his lesson and the apartment space is flexible enough to be multiplied based on the demand (in the best case scenario on server by server basis and without waiting for patches).

[Cakekizyy]

And then the little girl who really wanted her flower garden pays the greedy bastard triple the cost of the house, then pays for the house, and gets her garden.

What was gained? Nothing for anyone but the greedy person.

Greedy person gets reported and banned.

[Derio]

As long as it's not possible to have 3 apartments, one per ward. One of the main problems is people owning multiple properties, which makes it inconvenient to others.

Honestly if it were up to me you would only be able to have one property. That way the entire server has enough for everyone

[aesteval]

Man, this discussion happens in every thread about housing. It's this whole idea of "As long as Yoshi himself doesn't step in and tell me I'm doing something wrong then what I'm doing is obviously fine".

Except in this case the apartments preview specifically mentions that house owners can also own an apartment. Ie: the dev team are explicitly stating that it's ok to have one of each.

And in the 3.4 trailer it mentions not to worry about running out of apartments - they set it up so that they can add more easily enough.

Assuming we're talking about the same thing being wrong. I think house flipping is wrong and we see people being punished for it. I'm just commenting on the owning a house and apartment bit (for actual use and all that.)

[aesteval]

Here you got me interested. How do you make grade V materias break less during overmelding?

Why why WHY would you overmeld grade V materia? Only a couple of pieces of gear would actually need it overmelded to hit the stat cap. And the pieces that could use it I currently refuse to overmeld because I don't currently need those stats to craft anything. Overmeld with IV and III materia. They're good enough and loads cheaper and more accessible.

[ToniRomo]

From what I understand an apartment is just like a FC room?

I already have a house. I don't see why I would want to own an apartment.

[Hyperia]

I remember reading somewhere that they have the ability to increase the number of apartments as needed during the live letter discussions / pre-discussions.

They said that so people wouldn't worry, their system scales a great deal so they can add more to meet demand. They know of the super servers and are going to try and meet demand, they just don't want to take up server resources unnecessarily by adding 10,000 rooms when they only need 6,000.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

I remember reading somewhere that they have the ability to increase the number of apartments as needed during the live letter discussions / pre-discussions.

They said that so people wouldn't worry, their system scales a great deal so they can add more to meet demand. They know of the super servers and are going to try and meet demand, they just don't want to take up server resources unnecessarily by adding 10,000 rooms when they only need 6,000.

Yeah, I saw it in the live letter translation thread myself.

They can scale the apartments up if the initial amount doesn't meet demand.

That's very good.

[Niwashi]

the apartment being not subject to auto-demolition is very attractive to me.

So long as the feature is developed in such a way that there are a fixed number of apartments, which seems to be the case, then it will be subject to auto-demolition. I don't know whether it will be on the same terms as housing plots, but it will exist. If it doesn't start off with the auto-demolition feature when first released, then it will be added later, as it was with the houses. (It'd be better to have the system just start off with auto-demolition in place, so we could at least know in advance what the rules for it are. Being added later seems too much like a bait and switch.)