When is SE going to do something real to fix the issues with housing?

[SokiYagami]

You're right: it's not fair that some people have multiple houses on all of their alts. But, let's be real. Fixing that will do NOTHING to alleviate the fact that most players don't have houses. The number of plots opening up would be great, but as soon as they all sold out (almost immediately), you would all be right back here complaining that you still haven't had a chance to get a house.

Letting people have multiple houses is wrong, yes, but it's NOT what's keeping you from getting one. The extremely short supply is, and that's not something that SE did by accident. They want full houses to be very few in number. That's why their answer to housing complaints was apartments, not more plots.

Well technically what you said isn't entirely incorrect, but your argument is as weak as saying even without drink-driving, there will still be car accidents anyway, so there's no need to deal with the drink-driving issue.

Saying you want it fixed, while providing no possible solutions or suggestions is not paving the way for a good thread discussion.

In my humble opinion, making it so you are account bound to ONE house is a step in the right direction. Allowing our alts to have automatic sharing rights to that one account bound house would be even better, sharing an inventory chest would be a dream but would be amazing also.

This could really help out, I really wish they are considering how to implement it already.

[Kenok]

Not to hate or anything. But the housing will never be fixed. I am not sure how multiple other games can get it to work but SE servers are run by a water wheel. But as long as they never cap servers and keep trying to make the current system work for everyone (which they have proven they can't).

Maybe people are right, they want you to give them more money to transfer or maybe they don't want everyone to have a house.

I have seen suggested time and again housing be instanced tied to account(charged) and shared by all alts on server. A few times suggested retainers be removed and inventory be tied to house. I guess for everyperson bad mouthing the OP the world still has dreamers.

You could very well be right but that should not stop us from trying and voicing our frustration in hopes it changes something.

[Khanscott]

If FCs want housing, let them transfer the lot of them off high pop. servers for free to a smaller server with available housing. Yes, S-E will lose Mogstation shekles but FCs would have access to housing they wouldn't have otherwise.

[ckc22]

If FCs want housing, let them transfer the lot of them off high pop. servers for free to a smaller server with available housing. Yes, S-E will lose Mogstation shekles but FCs would have access to housing they wouldn't have otherwise.

The problem being that then you have to be on some dead server where nothing ever gets done.

[Khanscott]

The problem being that then you have to be on some dead server where nothing ever gets done.

Considering the complaints I hear consistently in game and forums, those dead servers wouldn't be so dead in a very short span of time.

[LineageRazor]

i heard of a guy on gilgamesh that actually owns an entire ward to himself all because he didn't want to share a ward with anyone.

This sounds like an urban legend to me. While technically possible, I seriously doubt that it is true.

In fact, the whole deal with alts buying up multiple houses is, I think, a lot less common than people assume. I'm guessing that if they did implement the whole one-house-per-account thing, only a bare handful of houses would be reclaimed. They SHOULD still do it - I mean, come on, no single person should own more than one house when housing is such a limited commodity - but it's far from a solution to the problem.

The neighborhoods were a huge mistake and a complete waste of server space. Individual instanced would have been far better.

I disagree with this. Neighborhoods are the goal games should strive toward. Players should be able to walk around and admire people's houses, not select them from a list and be transported there. Instanced homes are all but pointless. I had an instanced home in FFXI, and never felt any real desire to furnish it and pretty it up. After all, I was the only one that could see it - and even when they added the ability to invite others into your home years later, there still wasn't much point as the only folks you'd be inviting were friends, so only a bare handful would ever see it.

The issue here is that SE's goals were too ambitious, not that they were wrong. They didn't have the infrastructure to support a neighborhood system, and still don't. That's what they need to fix. And if you're fine with instanced housing, well, we HAVE that, now - apartments are plentiful, and to my knowledge even on the most densely populated servers there are still available to purchase.

[LaylaTsarra]

This sounds like an urban legend to me. While technically possible, I seriously doubt that it is true.

The most anyone can have on one server is 8 characters. Even with those fully leveled you wouldn't be able to buy an entire ward.

[Maquiame]

The most anyone can have on one server is 8 characters. Even with those fully leveled you wouldn't be able to buy an entire ward.

You can if you multibox

[SendohJin]

You can if you multibox

There's no way to limit someone who is willing to pay multiple subs.

Housing Wards is a great idea, the communal factor is important, what's dumb was mixing personal and FC houses to the extent that they did. personal houses should never be allowed to be built on L and M plots. those should've been reserved for FCs.

[Kenok]

The problem being that then you have to be on some dead server where nothing ever gets done.

They should at least not charge money to transfer to low population servers. Like cmon...