[Suggestion] Solving the "Housing Problem"

[Acilith]

I'm not sure I understand the complaint many of you have about housing. You want the largest plots for the largest mansion to hold all your stuff, but there aren't enough large plots and the one's out there are too expensive. Gee, sounds like real life. I'm not in a FC, so for me (crafter/gatherer) a personal house is a necessity. I started with a small house, went to a medium, and just got a large first-class plot because NOBODY WANTED TO PAY FULL PRICE! So, while you're playing a waiting game watching the value go down, I bought what you wanted but didn't want to pay for. Yeah, paying 50m kinda dents the pocket, but what else am I going to spend gil on? As Ashe (xAshe10x) told me once when I was sniveling about the cost of large plots (yeah, I did it too) "you'll make that back in 3 months growing crops". BTW, my server typically has 10-15 smalls and 3-5 mediums and 1 or 2 large for sale every week. If you're a newer FC or beginning player, isn't a small house better than nothing?

Well on servers like Gilgamesh/Balmung/Chocobo/Shinryu? There are NO HOUSES. NONE.If you want to get one from another player? 50mil for a large? More like 300. 20mil for a medium? More like 150mil. Small? 50mil. I'm not even kidding.I totally understand the outrage, and honestly even though I have a house I still get twitchy when I think about it. Most of the game's population is on these larger servers yet they get the same treatment as dead servers? And just making that amount of gil on these populated servers with all that competition? WHEW. Have fun making 50mil in three weeks with your garden. I am lucky to make 400k off of four thavnarian onions. Even trying to craft stuff here is rough, since people will charge less for the finished product than the materials even cost.
(The prices I listed are Balmung prices btw, I want to say Girugamesh is a bit more forgiving, maybe 10-20mil for a small?)

Why should we have to sacrifice the rest of our gaming experience just because we want to access part of the game? They need to work with the population:house ratio. If there's servers out there with empty wards yet, why do they even HAVE them? Why isn't that space being used to accommodate the rest of the game?

I know a lot of people harp on and on about 'lol balmung problems'. Just because it's not a problem for you doesn't mean it's not a problem for other people. A LOT of other people. Maybe like 3x your total server population of people.