In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

[Ayerinn]

The main reason I have been extremely angry after the release of housing was, that within 3 minutes after release all big plots were already sold. But not the fact that they were already sold is what made me angry. The fact that all of them were sold to private people was what made me rage. I absolutely do not comprehend, why a single person needs a big plot. In my opinion it should be restricted, that only FCs are allowed to buy big plots. I'd even go so far to say that private people can only buy small plots, but that may be a bit extreme.
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Small house yards are too small and there is a ridiculous restriction on number of outdoor items for all the sizes (20-40.) My GF and I bought large plots simply to have the max outdoor limit (40) - we have had a FC Mansion for almost 2 years for all of our alts since you can not share houses with your own alts and have barely even decorated the inside... If they doubled or tripled the outdoor limit, I could probably survive with a medium plot...maybe.

[Tarnehorst]

A simple doubling of each residential district would be insufficient. With the current demand for housing, it would need to be quadrupled (at minimum). A hard cap on number of homes owned per account is also worth examining.

While our thanks are given on the issue being addressed.. it is hardly a NEW issue. Chronic lack of housing has existed for years, and it should not take the opening of a new residential zone and its resultant feedback to bring it to SE's attention.

[patriciasjoey]

I just want to say that I would be more than willing to purchase a permenant house from the MogStation.

I know that is not a popular suggestion, but I am understanding of the work and cost associated with development and am ok with paying for such things.

I'd also like to suggest maybe Mogstation exclusive / premium wards. They could be permenantly linked to accounts like retainers.

For those willing to pay for such, it would literally be no different than purchasing housing or previous seasonal event items.

I'm open to anything. I do currently have a house, but it was settled for due to unavailabity elsewhere and I am personally in favor of paying in MogStation if it becomes an option.

[Alastair_Helyous]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.

I don't deny I want to believe, but at this point, I can't help it but be very skeptical. And the text he wrote made him feel irresponsible on his approach to the problem. I hope you are right, for the sake of us all.

[DeaconMoore]

Sweet, house flippers will get more houses to flip! Woot?

[Diaphoni]

I don't deny I want to believe, but at this point, I can't help it but be very skeptical. And the text he wrote made him feel irresponsible on his approach to the problem. I hope you are right, for the sake of us all.

I hope I am too. I dislike the secrecy in the planned changes but I suspect that's more to do with them trying to decide 100% what to do. I am fully behind the 1 fc house &1 personal house limit per account but if they do that, they need to make it so we can account link them for real to our alts, meaning a realistic befriending system that doesn't require you be online to get the add request, letting us then mail things (the horror) to our alts. I don't see that happening

[ArchangelSavior]

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[DravlinKuraiyoru]

I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing, I think they knew and have always known. Why they listened this time when you can google the same outrage with EVERY housing release they've ever done for years, we may never know. Be glad they at least admit it's broken, looking back on previous posts that's a step further than we've gotten in the past. Perhaps they will fix it this time.

Looking back on previous posts I couldn't find any posts with even remotely near the same unification that we've had over the past couple of days. More subscribers, more disparity between the numbers involved, more reports of TOS breaking activity...

To put it simply, are we just significantly louder now?

[Taralis]

*begin rant*

I think there should be some sort of wait list. Say you want a large house, you select large as your preferred house and get some sort of notification that there is one available and you have so many days to purchase it or pass (in case the one available isn’t the one you wanted). If you don’t respond by purchasing or selecting pass then you are either removed from the wait list or moved to the bottom of the list. This in my opinion would almost completely stop the selling of plots.

And for sure there needs to be a limit, 1 per account per server. Make it so your account is registered to the plot and all characters from the account can access it.

Could also make the ward instanced in a way where all the worlds of a data center can load into the same ward. Would expand on the cross world features.

Please don’t keep us in the dark so that we can let you know if an idea is dumb or smart.

*end rant*

[Verdan]

You can't just add more wards and call it a day! It's Fundamentally Broken and you're going to be doing this EVERY TIME

Auto Generate wards when they fill. Lotro did this a decade ago. This is the only answer. Don't let people buy more than one personal plot. Don't let FCs buy more than one plot. You're going to have to release an apology and add more wards like every time there's a patch if you don't do this.