Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Sounds like new wards, I was hoping for a new subdivision.
Sounds like we're going from 12-16.
So 8 new districts (was hoping for 12)
So thats 8x30x4
960 new houses.
96 new larges.
I was hoping for 1,440, and 144 large.

Originally Posted by Naoki_Yoshida

We’ve also received considerable feedback as to how they should be added, and we will be making an announcement outlining the number of new wards and how they will be sold after reviewing said feedback. To prevent speculation, we will refrain from releasing information until absolutely necessary. We ask for your patience and understanding until we can provide you with these details.

This line is interesting.
Almost makes it sound like FC housing priorities.
Because I gotta tell you, in my ward 3. 22 of the 30 houses are personal, and only 8 were FC's.
That is mad wack, yo.

I'm actually surprised that he had the decency to come on here and post an update after so much silence. nice job.

Thank you Yoshida to have taken the time to respond!

Adding more wards is simply applying a band-aid to the problem.
Hopefully we will all be pleasantly surprised when 4.2 comes around.

Thank you for responding so quickly.

Thank you so much for considering the possibilities! I strongly hope that a long term solution that is feasible to deal with the current housing shortage and against T&C flipping!

I'm still really nervous, but! I'm super happy to hear there's already a response. Honestly if I get a genuine chance to just grab a tiny house for me and my friends, anywhere really, thatd be really nice.

If I may, I'd like to suggest a possible way to resolve part of the problem without completely unlocking housing limitations: introduce FC-only wards.

These would be wards that FCs must move their houses to before a certain deadline. This could come in the form of wards composed only of large and medium plots, since most FCs tend to take up large plots any way.

There could also be additional limitations to how Housing works for FCs, i.e. limiting FCs with under maybe 10 members from purchasing plots (or even locking the FC level from going that high without a certain number of minimum members in the first place), and while a suggestion like this would piss off those tiny FCs, there's no real way to satisfy EVERYONE ever; the most you could ever do is just to make -most- people satisfied... which is unlikely to happen, especially in the context of those congested servers.

Might be something to consider... maybe.

Prioritize FC over Personal plots. Something like: For the first 24 hours all available plots are available for FC purchase only. After 24 hours, non-taken plots will become available for personal purchase at a discounted rate.

There are far too many FC's left homeless due to people snatching up personal plots. An FC with multiple members (and actual in game uses such as workshops) should be priority over someone having a fun time decorating. 3-100+ members per FC versus 1 person holding a plot... It's a bit crazy.

And it should be 1 Personal and 1 FC house per account, not by character like it is now.

There's also the other problem of tiny FCs with like 4 members taking up a whole large FC house. Clearly there needs to be more limitations or people are just bound to abuse the system.