Overpopulation/Housing Fix

[worldofneil]

I think server merges is on the horizon, the Korean servers have already merged and people who's houses were after a certain ward got them auto relinquished .... makes me nervous about my ward 10 house.

I'm not SE so I can't tell you for sure, but then neither are the people running the Korean servers (I believe it's Nexon), so I really wouldn't worry. SE licence the game to them, but they have nothing to do with it's operation/policies such as merging servers and losing houses.

SE have never suggested anything about merging OUR servers together or us losing houses, in fact they're telling us the opposite and that they're increasing housing in the upcoming 4.0.

So yeh... really wouldn't worry.

[Hasrat]

If SE are serious about addressing this issue they should give players free transfers from overly congested servers to low populated servers. That way a group of friends can go together without worrying about irl cash. They should also allow fc transfers, like WoW did, so the fc doesn't lose all its progress.

And on top of that they really need to increase the gil limit.

Is there precedence for a free transfer campaign? Have they ever done one before? I agree, that's something they really ought to do once in a while, maybe once every major expansion or something? And an FC transfer system also sounds like something that would be needed along with that. I'd even go so far as to say a Free Transfer offer would be near useless without that. Restarting an FC (while maybe not too much of a trouble to actually grind out) would really be too much of an ask. I'd actually like to see this brought up way more often. And obviously the gil is holding things back, too.

These are things I can agree are holding back any solution for housing. I still hold that I would like to see more servers nearing housing capacity before it's a glaring problem, but these are obviously limits to that option. Wouldn't solve everything, probably just a small bandaid, but I'd see it as a small step towards improvement worth appreciating. These are fixes that would benefit everyone and make us all a better game, and hopefully go a longer way towards demonstrating just how much housing we need.

I can only hope with new NA servers, these are things devs might take into consideration in the future.

[Besame]

I think server merges is on the horizon, the Korean servers have already merged and people who's houses were after a certain ward got them auto relinquished .... makes me nervous about my ward 10 house. I'm on Balmung though so I should be ok, who is gonna merge servers into BALMUNG?

Dead servers are awful, expecting people to pay extra money to get a house is ridiculous when they're already situated somewhere. I tried to make an alt on a dead server just for kicks and I couldn't cut it. There was no one to talk to but gil spammers.

people lost their houses with a mandatory server merge? I'd be gone lol

[MichiKyou]

Can confirm, Been on Balmung since relaunch. with 170mil and no house. Been aiming for a house for my free company for a while now. No real luck in any department when people want 140+ mil just to relinquish a medium plot.

99% sure we'll miss out in Shirogane too due to the fact 720 houses will not fix the issue, everyone and their mum wants a house.

[NanaWiloh]

https://ffxivcensus.com/

Scroll down for an overview of "active" players by realm. It's unofficial, because SE doesn't want you to know. The information is taken from the lodestone in a similar way as LuckyBancho does when he does his census, this one is just regularly updated and not in japanese, so it's easier to use, even if less detailed.

As for housing availability: We currently have 2160 plots per server. It'll go up to 2880 with Shirogane. So Mateus won't have any issues any time soon, Zalera and Goblin will probably also be good to go for a while. Excalibur, Cactuar, Behemoth and I'd wager every server with around 5k or more characters will probably have a shortage.

Its also a month to month Census, when Stormblood hits the active numbers are going to jump greatly. A lot of people are just taking breaks from the game or not logging on as much while they wait for Stormblood.

[Celef]

I would not mind transfering in low populated server if :
- Free transfert to those servers, cause I've got guild members
- I could bring all my gils with me
- I could transfert my servants too, cause I'm afraid I'de lose all the glamour I stocked

Don't care about "living server", everything is cross server nowaday soooooo
But, as they won't offer free transfer in the first place.....

[Elany]

Interesting... Sounds familiar...


Hmm...


Also, gil transfer limit has been increased and highly likely to be removed overall sometime in the future.

[Dustytome]

It's going to be interesting to see how well it works at persuading people to transfer off. Source of the above info for those wondering. That bonus was listed under the EU part, I wonder if it applies to Balmung/Gilgamesh?

[Elany]

I just find it funny that what I suggested is being implemented. It would incentivize people more if there was NO gil limit whatsoever though, but hey, free transfers.

[Dustytome]

It would incentivize people more if there was NO gil limit whatsoever though, but hey, free transfers.

If players are able to transfer characters without problems after these changes, we will consider removing the gil limit on character transfers.

Might be something to look forward to in the future?