Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Not sure if it's already been mentioned here (11+ pages...), but after seeing this response, I just had to wonder...

After a bit of quick maths, I realised there are currently only 2880 plots of land in each World - 4 cities, 12 wards (Including subdivisions), 60 plots.

Is it not possible to create some form of automated generator where a new ward/subdivision will be created once the most recent has reached 75% capacity? Or something like that...

I know that this will create a LOT of data, especially on high-population servers, but it'll balance out across the server, even if most people move to properties of one city over another - that city would just have a lot of wards, while others only have a few...

Having said all this, I must thank you, Yoshida, and the rest of the FFXIV team for so promptly addressing the housing issue, and for bringing Eorzea (and beyond) back to us.

Can't wait for the additional 2 wards per area we'll get for the 240,000 players on Leviathan lul.

Personally, I hope they do restrict it to 1 personal and 1 FC house, and for the sales themselves to go in phases, first just to those with houses to allow them to relocate, second phase to be open to just FCs, then finally open to all. I believe that FCs should have first pick as it addresses multiple people at once, there are some not concerned with getting a personal house because the FC has one and there are apartments. Another thing i would like to see implemented is a type of reservation system for plots sizes already sold out.
Basically put your name on the list with an NPC and pay in full, people that want to give up the plot can by talking to same NPC and getting the gil for land from them. Yeah it could be looked at as a type of flipping but it adds an element of control for the buyer. When the plot size is available buyer has 3 days to accept it or it goes to next person on list, those that reject go down the list, while those who don't respond get removed and a refund.

What I would like to see is 1 personal house and 1 FC house per account per server. That would take out the people that want to have a personal house in every housing area making it impossible for the ones of us who don't have a house. Also would be nice if the ones that do have multiple houses get their extra houses removed and the plots put up for sale once more. More Wards is something I'm happy about but once again it will be a race to get a plot. It sucks that people on more popular servers have to race and fight just to have something bigger than a tiny room in an FC house or apartment building.

Originally Posted by Emily_Quinn

What I would like to see is 1 personal house and 1 FC house per account per server. That would take out the people that want to have a personal house in every housing area making it impossible for the ones of us who don't have a house. Also would be nice if the ones that do have multiple houses get their extra houses removed and the plots put up for sale once more....

So some players managed to get several houses but for others it´s impossible? You see that there is quite a flaw in that logic?

Players who own several houses have worked for them (btw. I only own one). They have leveled characters, earned gil, leveled GC and FC company ranks. You would like to take their houses away just because SE isn´t willing to provide enough wards?

Housing is already instanced, it´s called wards. How many duty instances do you think are running at the same time? More wards shouldn´t really be any problem (and it isn´t as they now after the big backslash are suddenly providing more wards with 4.2).

SE is just deliberately holding this resource in scarce supply (to save money for server infrastructure or to keep people playing, who knows).

So in my point of view the whole discussion how to solve the housing problem is futile and the anger and envy shouldn´t be directed to fellow players but to SE.

Originally Posted by Alleo

The problem is that they are not truly instanced at all. The wards are always there no matter if someone is using them or not, kinda like a city. This way they probably need a lot of resources to always stay up. Only the houses for each player are instanced. A truly instanced housing would only exit when someone goes to that house/instance, thus its way easier for the servers. This is why I cant understand why they chose it that way..

Unfortunately, I believe it's due to the neighbourhood concept. Since they have to assume someone will always be there, the wards can never close. It may also be 1.x coding since they did salvage a lot and repurposed it.

What gets me is people sayin take houses away from people who own them,..I do have multi houses but i bought them before this free transfer BS. Our server was small there was 200-400 empty houses for over a year that ive been here ... i payed $18 to move here just to have houses, wile some payed $18 to move to busy servers like balmug then took the free transfer and now are yelling foul. I broke no rules crafted my butt off to earn the money for each house and its deco. They are used weekly my wife and i split our time between each char. they have there own styles so one houses dosent fit my dark dragon or my female kitty..

There is a problem we need more wards period. but taken away from people who did not break any rules and work there butts off to own a couple houses when servers were dead is silly now that people got a free ride to low pop servers

Originally Posted by Siniztor

There is a problem we need more wards period. but taken away from people who did not break any rules and work there butts off to own a couple houses when servers were dead is silly now that people got a free ride to low pop servers

That's awesome and you deserve the stuff you earned. I doubt they would ever take things away from people, unless maybe there was huge compensation for doing so, but still I doubt it. That's why it's also hard to see them locking housing to 1 per account, since it wouldn't be fair that some people already bought multi homes before the change but everyone else can't. Soo... it's a pickle to come up with a workable solution. Nothing is going to be perfect.