Thoughts on additional wards

[Welsper59]

I left Balmung and got hit with a lobby error the moment I attempted to log in. Other people on preferred worlds had similar log in errors; with houses gone within 15 minutes. Guess transferring doesn't accomplish anything.

You just haven't transferred hard enough.

[RosaLunaCelestia]

I wish only have Shirogane home style for where my fc is actually is :/

[Singularity]

I wish only have Shirogane home style for where my fc is actually is :/

You can build one of these special exteriors using a company workshop. Makes any house anywhere look Shirogane-ish

[AstroZombie]

Remember whatever number of new wards works for small and medium servers needs to be done to an even higher degree for higher population servers.

We have 2880 houses per server now.

According to census data Balmung (which I am going to use as an example since I live there) has about 22000 active characters, unless I am mis-remembering.

They would need to increase the number of wards by about eight, to a total of 96 wards per area, to ensure each active character has a house.

Now obviously not every active character wants or can afford a house, and a lot are more than happy to just be a tenant- in fact in my, admittedly limited, experience the vast majority of homeowners 'couple up' with their SO or a close friend.

You could probably cut it down to 80 wards and be safe, with everyone who is interested and able to afford housing (including FCs) able to get one. By the time 5.0 launches if it included another new housing area that would provide for the rest of them and then some, in case the transfer embargo is ever lifted.

Now everyone, laugh with me because we all know this isn't going to happen. Looking forward to seeing this same problem again on all the large pop servers come 4.2.

Note: I share a house with my wife, so my horses in this race are tired and few, but it sure would be nice to have a place of residence where our other characters live who aren't paired off.