Thoughts on additional wards

[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.

[SendohJin]

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.

would you quit misrepresenting the statements, it's not "having a single-player FC" that's bad behavior it's making them on an alt (even multiple alts) for the purpose of hogging extra houses when it's a well known problem that there's a housing shortage.

it's like pirating a game/movie that you never would've paid for, it's like ordering so much food you know half of it is going to get thrown out. it's not a truly awful thing like rape and murder, if there's infinite supply it wouldn't matter if everyone did it but there isn't infinite supply, there isn't even adequate supply and it's well known that there isn't.

when a free company with 10+ people don't have a house when they have enough gil to buy multiple large plots of course people are going to feel like they "deserve" one before someone else gets a 5th house in a single player FC on their 4th alt character.

my FC has a Large Shirogane plot, i have a medium personal plot that i like and have no interest in moving anywhere except to maybe a beachfront Large in Mist, i even bought a small Shirogane plot on an alt to give to a friend. there's no "buttmad" here. i just have empathy for other people.

You were the one that said

So then they jam 4 lowbie alts in it

if people are specifically looking for loopholes to get around rules designed to help other players, it's bad behavior.

[Zfz]

Honestly they don't have an excuse for "didn't forsee the demand".

They can easily mine the player data and see how many people are eligible for housing and have the gil on their characters yet don't have a house. The current wards are clearly not enough. If they have not analysed the data then clearly they are deliberately creating a shortage. They want to see players fighting for housing. They want that publicity.

Up to now they have done nothing that proves otherwise.