Thoughts on additional wards

[Ayerinn]

They should really increase more large at least 2-3 more per division and 3-5 more for medium considering how many people now have more than 50m.

I'd rather they double or triple the price of mediums and triple or quadruple the price of larges...one of the issues with plot availability is that they are too cheap (raising demand.) Neighborhoods would be boring if every house was the same size...

[loreleidiangelo]

you moved the goalpost from a football field to a baseball stadium.

the bad behavior was in reference to single player FCs, specifically of an alt character.

Having a single-player FC isn't bad behavior either, people are just trying to make it out to be one because they're buttmad they didn't get a house when they feel like they "deserve" one more than someone else.

There's not enough to do. This is an instanced based game, when people are logged in, they are doing their trials/raids/roulettes.

there is so very little incentive for a single player to be inside his/her house, there's even less incentive for them to stand outside in their yard.

it's kind of a double-edged sword, you would want furniture that can boost crafting so someone would actually want to go into their house and go to their crafting station to do crafts. you would want extra storage in a house (that's for not just furnishings) so that people don't just use the Retainer Bells in Rhalgar's Reach / Kugane. the problem is when you make houses actually useful this would make it even worse that there are so many players who don't have them.

and owning a house is incentive to do events/quests that reward furnishings. what's the point of having a Christmas Tree if you don't have a yard to put it in.

EDIT: For what it's worth, I actually agree with this statement. It's unfortunate that housing has limited features because they're not available to everyone, and to give them serious incentives outside of fun factor (and the limited opportunities they offered with airships and gardening) would cause mass riots on the forums and Reddit. This is actually part of the selfish reason I WANT them to do something about housing - because I want to actually use my house for stuff again. I've decorated it how I like it, I have no desire to remodel with the furnishings we have available, and I've gardened and raised my chocobo to 20 already. There's nothing left for me to DO with it. And I won't feel right getting more to do with it until I actually see housing wards with empty plots on my servers weeks after they open - implying that supply has finally met the demand.

[Clover_Blake]

I would honestly suggest transforming the current 12 wards into FC only housing. Then adding a 13th Ward with plots that are decorated, but each one leads to an unlimited amount of instanced plots, similar to how apartments and FC rooms function.

I'd really hate this solution. It's basically saying that my whole house would disappear from the neighbourhood and would become an apartment. I love the neighbourhood and I love feeling like a part of it. I'm sure we can find solutions that don't involve running over people who already own houses.

[Mycow8me]

Lets be honest here, without rules and regulations... Its just going to be another flop with ppl buying and reselling or even some people getting a house to go with their house because hey, I herd u liek houses.

[Thunderblaze]

I have a medium house that I don't really decorate or anything. I use it for my garden patches. Those patches made back the 7.9mill several times over.

Allow me to rent/use gardens elsewhere, and I'll release my house np.

[Zarabeth]

Adding more wards alone won't help. Not unless they add a ridiculous amount of wards, anyway.

Then it's a good thing that's not all they are planning.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Literally the only way they could make housing reasonable for the average player would be to make the game add new wards as they fill up...
But from what I hear, all the extra data from that would eat up the server machines quite the bit more than likely causing other isssues.

Just gotta be happy with the apartment... Maybe if they gave people who own Stormblood the ability to buy a second one in Shirogane, that'd be something.

[Krotoan]

I'd rather they double or triple the price of mediums and triple or quadruple the price of larges...one of the issues with plot availability is that they are too cheap (raising demand.) Neighborhoods would be boring if every house was the same size...

I don't like that idea. Sounds like only the mega rich get big houses. The price isn't the problem, the supply is.

[Welsper59]

Oh i know it, because i'd be one of them people if SE pulled that.

People still do this in WoW. "LF people to help start my guild. 100G for signing. No need to stay in the guild after." Minor restrictions won't stop players from doing it. I know I'd be doing it if I felt the reward was worth it (which in WoW, it easily can be).

Then it's a good thing that's not all they are planning.

Well we don't really know that. More wards is all we know they're going to do. Any changes to acquisition put in place, as per what was stated, still means it's just wards... a finite supply that does not even dent the actual demand.

[Krotoan]

Well we don't really know that. More wards is all we know they're going to do. Any changes to acquisition put in place, as per what was stated, still means it's just wards... a finite supply that does not even dent the actual demand.

They specifically said they weren't releasing details to avoid speculation. Let's wait and see, and if it's a poor solution then we can criticize.