Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Darrcyphfeid]

You do know that private owners make up almost 80% of the plots right? FC's have every right to get the first weeks to themselves.

FCs don't have first week, or even first day, to themselves anyway. They're competing for prime real estate with anyone that currently owns a house and real estate in general with people creating dummy FCs over the next two and a half weeks.

If the implemented changes don't resolve the issue, by 4.3, you can bet they'll make a system forcing players to get down to one property.

/sigh

LuckyBancho* suggests the following, if we assume no FCs whatsoever have houses and all players have only a single personal house. The percentage is how much of the population would have a house of their own:

EU: Largest - Louisoix: 19,098 (22.62%), Smallest - Zodiark: 13,861 (31.16%)
NA: Largest - Balmung: 22,562 (19.14%), Smallest - Zalera: 11,105 (38.9%)
JP: Largest - Tonberry: 14,497 (29.79%), Smallest - Valefor: 6,586 (65.59%)

4.2 isn't going to fix the problem. Freeing up ~150 plots (I'm being generous) per server isn't going to help anything. It won't even be noticeable; it's 3.47% of the total number of plots that will be available (4,320) as of Feb 6th.


* Please take a moment to consider the argument "LuckyBancho isn't accurate because it doesn't include tons of people" and realize that would make the situation worse.