Housing Suggestions

[HyoMinPark]

If the FC leader is gone for 35 days, you've got bigger FC issues at hand than the FC house. It's likely that that FC is already dead.

That’s an unlikely scenario. It’s far more likely that the leader just left the game—be it on break or permanently—and didn’t tell anyone. Doesn’t mean that the FC itself is dying; there have been quite a few instances of posters on here and on Reddit discussing what to do when they’re in an active FC with an AWOL leader.

Better question is why you really need alts in FFXIV in the first place.

A lot of crafters have alts to bypass specialist requirements. Raiders have alts so that they can run with more than one static, or pug fights for practice during loot lockout periods. People that RP have alts with different storylines and different personalities. Some people make alts to run though the story again. There are a lot of reasons why people have alt characters.

I'd rather see greedy thieves like the Mateus couple get the shaft than all the other people that continue to get frustrated because they can't get a house or move to Shirogane (because SE stupidly hyped that up and didn't deliver enough capacity to satisfy the players).

As pretentious as the Mateus couple are, they bought their houses legitimately (as far as we are aware, there was no suspicion of RMT involved). There were no 1 FC/1 Personal rules in place when they did what they did, so you cannot accurately call them thieves. What they did was not ethically right (though that’s subjective), but they technically didn’t break any rules, nor did they steal anything.

SE has stated part of the issue is server side resources, and instanced housing is only going to aggravate that issue. I'm suspecting that's why SE is taking so long to add more wards.

And how so? Instances are created only when occupied—they are not constantly active like the ward are, which would cause far more strain an take up far more resources than an instanced area. SE has stated in the past that more Apartments can be added at a snap of the fingers, and Apartments are instanced. The only reason they aren’t shifting to instanced housing is because of the stubbornness to which they cling to the active wards design.