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    Titor Jaraba
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    Balmung
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    Alchemist Lv 100

    Restricting houses to one per account!!!

    .... Is not going to solve the issue.

    I keep seeing people calling for more restrictions/limitations/reclamation/other hoops to jump through, just like adding more wards won't fix the problem, neither will these.
    As long as the number of unique players on a server is greater than the number of houses available, there will be a problem. We need to be asking for dynamic wards or a complete rework to the personal housing system, not making houses so restricted and gated with a potential to be lost for any number of reasons that owning one becomes stressful.

    Remember how reclamation and demolishing was going to solve the issue? Did it? No. A handful of people grabbed a reclaimed house, sure, but look at the number of people still homeless and wanting a house. It didn't do anything but remove a tiny little dent in the overall population who wants a house, but added a great strain on housing owners to have to keep up their sub even in the event of a personal illness, disaster, work, military, or other RL issue that might keep them away for a period of time.

    There are 60*12*4=2880 plots on the server. Looking at any of the various ffxiv census sites shows that most worlds in NA have over 10k active players, and most servers on EU have over 12k active players. At best, if every person owns exactly one house (completely excluding FCs), less than 25% of the population will have a house. Adding FCs in here will make this percentage lower. So even with our current system, and only one person having a house, ~6000+ people per server that want a house can be upset about not being able to own a house.

    Even if the number of wards was increased to 20, or doubled to 24, there will not be enough houses for every individual non-alt player.

    "But the system is limited, we have to work with what we got!!!"
    ...No matter what we do with the current system, there will not be enough for anyone. It's not sustainable. It can be limited to one per account, relinquish after 10 days of inactivity, be restricted to FCs with 10+ members, lotteries, be an additional sub on the mog station.... It can be all of the suggested things and STILL have approximately the same number of people unhappy.

    Let's not make the situation overly complex or annoying to deal with. Let's ask for SE to FIX the problem. It will take time, it will take a massive rewrite, but that is what we need to be asking for.
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    Last edited by Titor; 10-17-2017 at 12:48 AM.