Stop asking for more wards

[Kyoraki]

I've seen people with multiple houses on the same account with characters in the same world. How is THAT fair?

It's not, housing should absolutely be limited to one per account, along with apartments. I don't see how it's an excuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater though. You're just proving my point, that your petition to replace the current housing system is being born out of jealousy and spite for those that managed to get a plot. I don't think I've ever seen a group of people so demonised by this community as Shirogane homeowners.

[RyuDragnier]

It's not, housing should absolutely be limited to one per account, along with apartments. I don't see how it's an excuse to throw the baby out with the bathwater though. You're just proving my point, that your petition to replace the current housing system is being born out of jealousy and spite for those that managed to get a plot. I don't think I've ever seen a group of people so demonised by this community as Shirogane homeowners.

I want the housing to be account bound per world. You have a personal house on one character for that world? It's shared among all your characters on that world, you don't get another one. Meaning you can have a house on Leviathan and Exodus, but you can't have 2 houses on Exodus or 2 houses on Leviathan.

[Kyoraki]

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So let me get this right, you don't feel like Apartments are the answer because they are lacking certain features? Then why is your solution to tear down regular housing rather than fixing the instanced housing that's already in the game? again, the attitude here is that if you can't have something, nobody can.

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Probably a little too generous, but I get where you're heading here. There's no reason why people should be able to have so many properties under one account.

[Saraphin]

I agree. The issue with this form of housing is that it will never meet the needs and demands of the playerbase. If they added two new wards today, but two hundred new players joined the game, not even a hundred of those players would get a plot. The way this particular housing system is designed, it's meant for servers that have a cap. Meaning that only a certain amount of players are allowed per server. But when you have uncapped servers and people can create as many characters as they want, instanced housing works better.

I know that a lot of people like the current ward system, but with way that SE has their servers set up, it just doesn't work and a lot of people are getting screwed out of a portion of the game.

out of 200 New players? given how housing is now, I'd guess maybe 1, at best, would get a house.

[Doki]

All wards full? Add a new ward every time there are no available plots on any other ward. People would throw money at smalls just for a shot a large on a new ward.

[CookieMonsta]

All wards full? Add a new ward every time there are no available plots on any other ward. People would throw money at smalls just for a shot a large on a new ward.

This can kill the server if the appropriate scalability wasn't built in from the ground up.

Each ward is adding an unknown burden on the server which has to be accounted for. Only SE knows what this is but I suspect there is some issue with ancient/poor code that is preventing infinitely scalable wards.

[SendohJin]

This can kill the server if the appropriate scalability wasn't built in from the ground up.

Each ward is adding an unknown burden on the server which has to be accounted for. Only SE knows what this is but I suspect there is some issue with ancient/poor code that is preventing infinitely scalable wards.

of course not, they couldn't even infinitely scale Raubahn/Pipin instances for SB Early Access.

[MistakeNot]

This can kill the server if the appropriate scalability wasn't built in from the ground up.

Each ward is adding an unknown burden on the server which has to be accounted for. Only SE knows what this is but I suspect there is some issue with ancient/poor code that is preventing infinitely scalable wards.

If that is the case then adding instanced housing with infinitely scalable number of houses is very likely to run into exactly the same issues - and would thus not be a workable solution.

The proper solution would be to fix whatever problems prevent adding lots more wards, and then add more wards.

[SendohJin]

The proper solution would be to fix whatever problems prevent adding lots more wards, and then add more wards.

i don't think it's a big secret. the problem is cost, so either they got a bigger budget for Shirogane or they figured out how to reduce the cost and used part of those savings towards the Shirogane wards.

there's no magical way to fix it that makes them free.

[Kewitt]

I like wards. I want more wards.
I don't want an instanced house the no one see other then me and my friends.
They should do the following.
1 house per account, not character.
large houses for FC only.