How would have implemented housing in XIV?

[Septonyte]

I like the housing ward layouts as they are now... but there are some changes I would have loved to see implemented instead of just the "Toss more wards at it" method SE have taken. So here is what I would have done.

1) Keep each ward to 1 ward (no subdivisions for this system.) *This may not be possible if the housing server is too full of houses.

2) A player may go up to the placard of ANY house and "purchase" it. They may then enter the instance for their front yard via the placard - it will move them into the front yard of their instance.

3) Once in the instance, which begins as an empty plot just like in the current system, they may then do the housing thing. The "surrounding area" is exactly like the area outside the instance (you just don't see any other players run by while in your instance.)

*** That's the actual player side of the housing but there are three more things I want this system to do. ***

4) The wards are not actually empty, nor are they made up of "Generic Houses". Instead, at regular intervals, the houses are randomly selected from the houses on each plot. This would give people a chance to show their plots to the ward AND give incentive to decorate their front yards and houses.

5) If a player's house is chosen then it will be the house people see and can interact with as they walk around the ward so this keeps the ward "open" so we can still cut across yards. Also, the displayed yard is separate from the instanced yard; once set, the ward's displayed yards and houses will not changed until the next re-roll.

6) The placard menu allows you to select to either go straight to your house, go to a friend's house on the same spot (a small list appears for this one), or view a list of all houses on the same spot (for the RPer events). The full list should also be filterable by FC/personal and sorted alphabetically.

I also have an idea for instanced housing but would need to flesh it out a bit more.