Adressing the roots of the housing problem

[Ametrine]

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Oh dear, I'm fully aware that we have at least thousands of more players that want housing that can't get a plot due to availability.

Right night what SE is doing can barely be considered damage control. But, when you enter a ward and see 15 homes owned by one player and wonder why people sitting on a few million gil barred by another player's decision are salty when our options are considerably inferior in every way. Every way.

I quote myself;

Because they've shown zero interested in adding a ton of amenities to apartments or just adding instanced housing.

Everyone unable to earn housing will always have a reason to be upset, and SE, over and over, keeps taking the wrong route

[Darrcyphfeid]

Right night what SE is doing can barely be considered damage control. ... Everyone unable to earn housing will always have a reason to be upset, and SE, over and over, keeps taking the wrong route

We seem to be on the same page in general. I just felt the need to reaffirm that 4.2 isn't really fixing anything and that getting hung up on retroactively punishing some small number of people, however satisfying some may find that, won't help and most likely isn't happening (else, you would assume they would be announcing that now).

Though for what it's worth, they did say some months back that once the housing "adjustment" for 4.2 was done they would turn their attention towards making apartments come in small, medium and large sizes. They have already confirmed that apartments will never have front lawns nor balconies due to the way they set up the instances for them, however. {insert facepalm here}

This assumes you can upgrade your plot. While they said relocating will be allowed, they made no mention you could relocate your small Lavender Bed plot to a large Shirogane. Given you have to pay the difference; essentially buying a new estate, it's quite likely you won't be able to upgrade to a larger plot.

I feel this has to work in reverse; they have to specifically say that you can't relocate to a different size. Because when they say "You can still relocate," the default expectation must be that relocation is relocation - would work exactly as it worked in 4.1. Buying and relocating are somehow completely different things, even though the entire foundation/concept of relocation is that you're purchasing a new plot.

[Zojha]

Buying and relocating are somehow completely different things, even though the entire foundation/concept of relocation is that you're purchasing a new plot.

They're probably simply processed by a different block of code or script and they only changed the original block for buying/selling.

I fully expect people to be able to upgrade via relocation as usual.

As for the situation as a whole, well... they dug their grave the moment they put personal housing into the wards instead of developing a separate system for them. Removing {Foresight} from the game with SB was downright symbolic.