About the Apartments...

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

Dont have any V Materia to sell, probably because I am more concerned with playing the game, then treating it like a second job, if you want my honest answer.

Why not unlock the weeping city of mhach? I'm pretty sure you can get an item to trade in for materia V once per week (unless they removed the limit)

[Kikoten]

If it's how I'm imagining it, and depending on the server capacity, it may or may not be a race to purchase an apartment space in a desired location.

I'm no good at math, but I'm going to make an attempt to calculate all the open apartment spaces with my calculator software. This is an open invitation to all you math whizzes to correct my mistakes. Okay, here we go:

There are 3 residential districts. Each residential district has 12 wards, and every ward has 2 divisions.

There will be an apartment zone in all three districts, in all 12 wards, all of which has 2 divisions.

So that means, there'll be 24 apartment zones in each of the 3 districts. 24 X 3 = 72. There'll be a total of 72 apartment zones to choose from.

Each apartment zone houses up to 90 tenants. 90 X 72 = 6,480 tenants total per server.

Did I do that correctly?

[aesteval]

I did read the patch notes, at least what I was reading on the launcher and it says that each apartment can hold like LaylaTsarra above you said 500 units, but how many people play the game, hmm? And there are what, three zones or whatever that each have an apartment? I must point out, that I know for a fact that Estate land is limited in space, and there was no mentioning of there being enough Apartment space for EVERYONE to have their own apartment.

"Before purchasing an apartment, players must first attain level 50 with at least one class. Each room costing 500,000 gil. Players are allowed one apartment per character. Furthermore, it is possible to own both an estate and an apartment."

Nothing saying there is enough for any and all players.

There are 72 zones that hold apartment buildings.

3 city state housing areas x (12 wards each + 12 subdivisions each)

[YakushiHinata]

Everyone does have the right to enjoy every aspect of the game, some just need to work harder for that enjoyment. Learning mechanics of Extreme primals, Savage etc and not wait for others to carry them through it.
And I think 500k gil for an apartment is a decent price for a gil sink to remove some of that money flow ingame.

[Moururii]

it's 90 apartments per ward and subdivision, while this might still sell out in a day or two on very heavily populated servers Yoshi-P has specifically stated they can bump it all the way up to 500 apartments per ward and subdivision if and once neccessary.

You really don't have to worry about getting ahold of an apartment, if the price is an issue then it's on you I'm afraid. It's really not hard at all to scrounge up 500k, housing primarily exists as a money sink anyway.

[Recaldy]

Buy an FC room for 300k? Sure they'll work the same way.

[ZhaneX]

Why not unlock the weeping city of mhach? I'm pretty sure you can get an item to trade in for materia V once per week (unless they removed the limit)

They removed the limit on gear and pennies (To trade for upgrade items), but the restriction on V Materia trades is still in place.

Anyway, can we just like, report and have trolling, junk threads like this removed? They serve no purpose and just complain about not having everything handed to them on a silver platter.
I was able to save up enough gil for an apartment just doing my roulettes for a week leading up to the patch. There's nothing hard or restrictive in the slightest about that price, unless you were to buy everything off NPCs or the market board, and never did quests or dungeons or anything.

And if that's your idea of "Playing the game", then...

[Loony_BoB]

If it's how I'm imagining it, and depending on the server capacity, it may or may not be a race to purchase an apartment space in a desired location.

I'm no good at math, but I'm going to make an attempt to calculate all the open apartment spaces with my calculator software. This is an open invitation to all you math whizzes to correct my mistakes. Okay, here we go:

There are 3 residential districts. Each residential district has 12 wards, and every ward has a 2 divisions.

There will be an apartment zone in all three districts, in all 12 wards, all of which has 2 divisions.

So that means, there'll be 24 apartment zones in each of the 3 districts. 24 X 3 = 72. There'll be a total of 72 apartment zones to choose from.

Each apartment zone houses up to 90 tenants. 90 X 72 = 6,480 tenants total per server.

Did I do that correctly?

It looks right. For anyone wondering about the 500 upper limit mentioned, that makes it 500 x 72 = 36,000 tenants per world.

[UnaLihzeh]

...

Did I do that correctly?

Yes, you did.

Furthermore, they're going to eventually expand to up to 500 apartments in each apartment building if there's enough demand for them. A potential max of 36,000 apartments.

This is pretty much their solution to the housing problem since adding more wards and subdivisions isn't practical.

I don't think getting one is too much of a problem.

[Kikoten]

Yay, my worries are put to rest.