An enormous thank you to the development team and Yoshi P

[YojimboM]

The official response on increasing housing wards and improved conditions for buyers in such an immediate fashion is truly telling for a turn-around on community outreach and interaction. (Detailed here.)

I know many, many people have had to complain very loudly to get this to happen, but the fact that it didn't fall on deaf ears should be a sign that all of this has been worth the effort. And that, as a community, we should voice our concerns about these types of serious issues and can expect the development team to take them into consideration.

If not for many, definitely for me, this has restored much hope in the team going forward and I'd personally like to express appreciation for their own efforts in both acknowledging and formulating a plan to deal with this issue.

.. now let's just hope they take a hard look at those side-buns on Miqo'tes.

[Roda]

I'm glad they responded so soon but I'll save my celebrations when I see this problem fixed.

I'm especially wary since they insist on keeping us in the dark until the very last minute (of our gametime so we have to resub)

[Ametrine]

Just as long as it's not that lottery to buy houses, I'm a touch relieved, this will remain a problem as long as the game continues to grow, however. At least they finally acknowledge that this is a problem and are now working to move forward a with a fix nd have confirmed that new wards are coming next patch to at least help a bit.

And holy crap the fact that FC rooms went kaboom when an FC could relocate? That's one hell of a nasty error!

[Teraluna]

I see he is an honourable man, and apologized for the situation.

Hopefully some posters on here will reflect on their abusive language toward the development team in regard to this issue, and feel similarly obligated to offer an apology.

[KageTokage]

I'm glad they acknowledged this.

I can only pray they'll acknowledge other issues like the PvP bot infestation.

[NolLacnala]

Last time we had housing issues, they added more wards. This time, they're adding more wards and...something super secret?

Hopefully the super secret isn't more wards. The playerbase is explodinggrowing, so we'll need a forward-thinking fix.

[ServerCollaps]

they'll set the demolish timer to 2 weeks, gg

[Arutan]

Hahaha, I still have no hope for SE. You all know they always screw what they intend to do, it will just be another blood bath. Don't get your hope high.

[Vladmiere]

I have no qualms with demolish timers being pushed up with a system in place in case of real life emergencies. And honestly if you are having such a real life emergency I doubt worrying about your in game house is near the top of your mental check list..

[Vejitta]

There is absolutely no reason to fence players from getting house in this game.
Adding more wards is the only possibility.

It's just this has to be resolved smart. You cannot add fixed number of wards, it won't solve problem in longer perspective.
But what you could do, is to introduce incremental wards addition. Whenever old wards is being filled with houses, new wards is being added. This way, we won't face the fact that there is not enough wards.

You can also combine it with plot transfer between wards in the same location, so in the future, whenever some wards will get empty, remaining houses can freely move to more populated wards.

I suppose there would have to be some limit to this incrementals due to the capacity of the servers, but this dynamic approach is definitely better in my opinion than any auctions, mogstations or making plots more expensive...