[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.

[Naunet]

Gee, sounds like real life.

This is a video game. Why would you want to replicate a system that is terribly unequal in real life in a freaking video game?

Though you clearly haven't paid attention to what this thread is about, because only your first sentence is accurate - you don't understand what our complaints are.

[DataAngelis]

1 Plot per player is no where near strict enough.. IMO it should be 1 per Account!
allow all your account characters to access it and use it's facilities.. the fact players are allowed to own more than one is complete BS and punishes new players that should have access to all the games meta content without restriction and expanding wards to an infinite value. spawnable once a ward main and sub divisions are filled.
It's not like Square don't have the funds to create the a server infristructure to maintain this and take your thumbs outta your arse and get this done!

[MichiKyou]

as someone who just got a medium house(FC) and is planning on moving it when shirogane hits, the reason we aimed for a medium was because smalls themselves are CRAMPED for more than one person. With 15 people in a room, smalls feel tiny.

[Naunet]

So Communities are up on the PTR in WildStar, and what the hell, SE. Get your act together!

[Dustytome]

So Communities are up on the PTR in WildStar, and what the hell, SE. Get your act together!

Just not quite functional yet. It will be interesting to see how well it works out with 5x the outdoor limit loading at once for most people.

[Naunet]

Just not quite functional yet. It will be interesting to see how well it works out with 5x the outdoor limit loading at once for most people.

Well they have already prefaced it by stating that people with weaker computers will likely experience slower loading times going into a Community with a large number of decor. TBH that doesn't bother me in the slightest though, because the amazing possibilities of this feature far outweigh an inconvenience of having to wait a minute for all the decor to load. xD

[Penthea]

So Communities are up on the PTR in WildStar, and what the hell, SE. Get your act together!

How about giving a tldr of what this actually is? I'm not really going to invest my time watching videos about a game I don't intend to play, and I doubt I'm the only one.

[Elamys]

How about giving a tldr of what this actually is? I'm not really going to invest my time watching videos about a game I don't intend to play, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Players will be able to link several of their personal plots together to make a "neighborhood" sort of. Which would be really great here. A lot of people don't want instanced housing because they want to have a neighborhood around them.

[Penthea]

Players will be able to link several of their personal plots together to make a "neighborhood" sort of. Which would be really great here. A lot of people don't want instanced housing because they want to have a neighborhood around them.

This sounds great. Also I'm getting the impression that housing is quite central to Wildstar. That certainly isn't the case in FFXIV, at least not yet anyway.