Introducing the moving feature on the same day Shirogane opened was a mistake.

[Malzian]

I think that introducing the moving feature the day Shirogane was released made everything far more competitive to those individuals/FCs who didn't own houses. Without moving, your only competition would be those without houses (which is already a lot people).

But with the moving feature you were competing against those without a house AND who only wanted to move to relocate. It really made things a lot more difficult.

I just think it would've perhaps been smarter to introduce the moving feature at a later date, but you're free to disagree.

None of the way housing is implemented is fair, it's all entirely unfair to everyone involved. What you are proposing here is even more unfair in that people who already had a house had to simply suck up not being able to get a house in Shirogane, because if an FC or person is legitimately interested enough in the Shirogane housing to completely give up their old plots and the fact that those plots are now on the market means nothing for that fact that you specifically want a Shirogane house as well.

No, let's not pile unfair on top of unfair. Even if people couldn't move their houses, the plots would have sold out just as fast. The moving feature had little to do with that because ultimately the total number of available houses went up across the board. The real problem is the limited number of houses with the way the wards are designed. If the wards expanded dynamically based upon how they fill up there would be no issue at all.

[Sashazor]

No, let's not pile unfair on top of unfair. Even if people couldn't move their houses, the plots would have sold out just as fast. The moving feature had little to do with that because ultimately the total number of available houses went up across the board. The real problem is the limited number of houses with the way the wards are designed. If the wards expanded dynamically based upon how they fill up there would be no issue at all.

If the wards expanded dyanmically we wouldn't have an issue, no, but it seems like SE's limited server space would be rather impractical for that. According to them, anyway.

[Malzian]

If the wards expanded dyanmically we wouldn't have an issue, no, but it seems like SE's limited server space would be rather impractical for that. According to them, anyway.

Agreed. I wish they would have been able to follow LotRO's example for housing. One ward got filled, a new one was created. The neighborhoods weren't much different from the current ones we have, with non-instanced neighborhoods where people had TONS of stuff in their yards. Guild and personal housing, where large houses were locked to guild ownership only. If a game that was released 11 years ago can pull that off without issues, I don't see why this one can't, aside from the whole 'we save data twice as often' thing that always is thrown around.