The housing in this game and how it works, is just attrocious. Last nights patch, has done a lot to highlight the major issues, which are, but not limited to:
  • Community size
  • Demand
  • Time limit to even attempt to get one
  • greed
With my server, Balmung, it's massive. And there's just not enough houses to supply the FC's and individual players. My own FC, was looking forward to trying to upgrade from a small in Lavender beds, to a medium in lavender beds. But no mediums opened for relocating to. And the window to do such, is insanely thin. If you aren't patch and in game at 3am exactly, forget about even getting a house. People should not be forced to stay up to 3am, in vain hopes of a house.

And to make things worse, is how private houses share the same wards as FC houses. Things wouldn't be so bad, if there were separate housing wards for private player homes, and separate wards for FC's. We've got some pretty greedy FC's on Balmung that work a black market on reddit, to buy up housing plots, just to sell them, hence circumventing the deal making in game since selling houses, is against the rules.

Wanna know how to rid us of the black market and stress? Lord of the Rings Online when I used to play it, had a system in place that if only 2 or 3 houses remain in a given ward, the system would automatically generate 3 new empty wards for people to buy houses in. That would kill the illegal black market easy. Separate FC's and Personal houses into their own wards. That would help alleviate problems too. Something has to give. As I said, 3am with no time after that, to get a house, it's ridiculous, and a major problem.