Thoughts on additional wards

[Pondera]

so, I was reading the news this morning and saw that it is Square Enix' cunning plan to implement more housing wards. This is a definite straight forward solution, but I was running some numbers and am questioning how much it's really going to help.

Right now, there are 12 wards with 30 plots each in 4 areas. That's 1,440 plots. So, if SE managed to, for the sake of argument, double the number of wards in all areas, which is quite a feat, that is 2,880 plots.

According to https://ffxivcensus.com/, on my server alone, there are nearly 250,000 active players, assuming that information is correct. Now, let's assume, again for the sake of argument, that a certain number among them are perfectly content with their apartment dwellings or rooming with their FCs, or are newbies and can't afford it, or are just homeless and don't care. Enough for us to reduce that number by half to 125,000. So, for all the effort that Square Enix is going through to do this, doubling the amount of available housing in this scenario is only going to accomodate 2.304% of the total population on my server alone.

I have no doubts that they have the best of intentions. Square Enix empathizes with us, they respect us, but I don't know if this is gonna work. I don't really have any ideas to the contrary, but I'm open to suggestions!

[hynaku]

For starters they could make large and medium plots only able to be used for fc housing and add bunch more small plots just for private housing. Also make it where can only buy one plot per account on each server and let all your alts on same account share it.

[Saint_Angeles]

For starters they could make large and medium plots only able to be used for fc housing and add bunch more small plots just for private housing.

I legitimately bought a large house for personal housing. Please explain to me why I shouldn't be able to have it.

[loreleidiangelo]

I legitimately bought a large house for personal housing. Please explain to me why I shouldn't be able to have it.

Statements like that don't work anyway because solo-player FCs are definitely a thing.

[SendohJin]

Statements like that don't work anyway because solo-player FCs are definitely a thing.

while i disagree with the original post, these are unrelated. solo-player FCs can also be barred from owning Large plots or even any plots at all.

[loreleidiangelo]

while i disagree with the original post, these are unrelated. solo-player FCs can also be barred from owning Large plots or even any plots at all.

So then they jam 4 lowbie alts in it, or whatever arbitrary numbers requirement the housing mob wants to peddle. The actual number is irrelevant.

[Furiea]

solo-player FCs can also be barred from owning Large plots or even any plots at all.

the idea was so lame.. I have to put another meme

[Cylla]

For starters they could make large and medium plots only able to be used for fc housing

No. Let me stop you right there. What in your right mind make you believe that a FC is more deserving of a L or M house over a single person? Please explain your reasoning, seriously.

[Penthea]

No. Let me stop you right there. What in your right mind make you believe that a FC is more deserving of a L or M house over a single person? Please explain your reasoning, seriously.

Honestly locking solo players out of owning houses of certain sizes is just going to make people more likely to make shell fcs for themselves.

[Cylla]

Honestly locking solo players out of owning houses of certain sizes is just going to make people more likely to make shell fcs for themselves.

Oh i know it, because i'd be one of them people if SE pulled that. If anything maybe they should decease the amount of small houses and give more M & L if they are in more demand then a S house. Though I suppose with the current system, they wouldn't be able to decease the S houses and add more M & L.