Instanced Housing

[Penthea]

The main issue is that they did not restrict the Ward housing to FCs and allowed characters to get one.

That said, the first step is to disallow personal housing in future areas.

I'm quite against this because the options for decorating are extremely low in apartments and fc rooms compared to having a house. The rooms are just too small and you have no garden. On top of that you cannot do any cross-planting unless you have a house. Even a cottage is a significant upgrade from an apartment or fc room.

Unless SE drastically improve apartments, preventing players from owning a house would be unfair because it would be entirely up to the fc masters whether players can cross-plant and do more decoration than the very limited options the apartments and fc rooms give you. Also this won't stop players from making their own fc's just so they can buy a house, and be the only member with free reign over the whole house. Players are already doing that.

I strongly feel that before any more restrictions are put in place, SE needs to expand the quality of housing across all types of residency. Especially apartments.

[KiraCifer]

one issues about housing they should fix is not allowing a FC leader to own a personal house too. Cause I know a few who run a active FC has a med-large house and spend whatever free time at said house and yet they own a personal medium or large themselves what they rarely go to and when they do it just to reset the 45day count down.

[Dustytome]

one issues about housing they should fix is not allowing a FC leader to own a personal house too. Cause I know a few who run a active FC has a med-large house and spend whatever free time at said house and yet they own a personal medium or large themselves what they rarely go to and when they do it just to reset the 45day count down.

The FC house isn't always the way the leader wants it and is to the FC's tastes as a whole. There's no reason they shouldn't get to have a personal house of their own to decorate as they please.

[ErikMynhier]

one issues about housing they should fix is not allowing a FC leader to own a personal house too. Cause I know a few who run a active FC has a med-large house and spend whatever free time at said house and yet they own a personal medium or large themselves what they rarely go to and when they do it just to reset the 45day count down.

The problem there is found in the nature of a FC. Say your FC has a house and so do you. If you become the leader should your personal be auto-demolished? Of course not. What if you are next in line to be the leader of your FC as the old leader never came back. You have been there a year and the next guy in line hates you. Does the system skip you over because you have a house? Is everyone with a personal not allowed to start a FC? "The guy that started this FC has a house so we as a FC will never get one... forget this."

A lot of issues that are avoided because a FC and personal house is not the same thing.

As for a fix to the argument over instance vs neighborhoods, why not both? Have the wards as they are now and introduce special spots in the world for instance housing? A massive airship that "links" to the aether of a town or settlement and can be moved? A private tropical island that you get to by rowboat npc? An underwater base? A witch's cave? We could have a blast with all of this.