Thoughts on additional wards

[Mikki]

Of course I doubt they're just sitting on the issue because it's fun for them to watch people be frustrated. I'm sure it's some significant issue like how the architecture is set up. Or a belief that the content isn't worth that much time, "you say you want a house, but I don't believe you" lol. .

This is an interesting point.... So many people buy houses and keep them, but you have to wonder how many are using them? Since I've bought my Shirogane house, I have seen only one FC hanging around and one other player. I walk around the ward a lot. I look at people's houses. In my area, many houses have no lawn decoration and some haven't even built the house yet (perhaps resellers idk).When I was in Lavender Beds, I saw more people than I have here and that's shocking to me since it literally just came out. Although I guess people could be busy doing other content..........

But yeah, could the fact that people hog houses but barely use them be the reason behind SE's reluctance to truly pour investment into fixing these issues? Personally, I really am saddened when I see people who don't really use their house. I had one friend who simply had an empty house and only used it for a convenient/cheap teleport and vendors. I wondered why he didn't just use an apartment.... But I guess you can have more vendors this way.

[Nerfworthy]

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I had mine almost fully decorated within an hour of buying it. Some people actually walked by and went "wow! so fancy so fast!". I realized not everyone has had the chance, or perhaps they are completely broke from just buying the plot. I don't know. Personally, I've been crafting and preparing tons of decoration for myself + to sell for profit in the last few months.

[SendohJin]

But yeah, could the fact that people hog houses but barely use them be the reason behind SE's reluctance to truly pour investment into fixing these issues? Personally, I really am saddened when I see people who don't really use their house. I had one friend who simply had an empty house and only used it for a convenient/cheap teleport and vendors. I wondered why he didn't just use an apartment.... But I guess you can have more vendors this way.

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.

[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.