Housing

[Xenor]

But then the preferred worlds limitation is set to send you to worlds with low population, thus easier to get a house. Where you can start with all your money and do your own thing...

You got the last bit right. Do your own thing - because you've left all your mates behind and joined a server with no active FCs. If I were to transfer it would be to a medium population server where I'd be forced to convert all my gil to crafting materials/materia and then back again afterwards. That was about two weeks of faff last time around and I have almost three times the gil now. Not worth the effort.

I think we're getting off topic here anyway. The real problem is the lack of housing. I accept that you don't want more because you want to be a special snowflake having something other people can't have, let's just leave it at that.

[Mahrze]

You got the last bit right. Do your own thing - because you've left all your mates behind and joined a server with no active FCs. If I were to transfer it would be to a medium population server where I'd be forced to convert all my gil to crafting materials/materia and then back again afterwards. That was about two weeks of faff last time around and I have almost three times the gil now. Not worth the effort.

Cross Server PF is a thing. You're the one who wants housing in a place that is flooded with people with similar goals, vs going to other places where its available.

I think we're getting off topic here anyway. The real problem is the lack of housing. I accept that you don't want more because you want to be a special snowflake having something other people can't have, let's just leave it at that.

:rollseyes: At least you're doing you.

[MizArai]

I think we're getting off topic here anyway. The real problem is the lack of housing. I accept that you don't want more because you want to be a special snowflake having something other people can't have, let's just leave it at that.

Most servers still have some housing available for purchase, doesn't that kind of make you wanting more housing the special snowflake?

[Aingael]

Levi has no plots left and then if one opens up you have to have no life to sit and camp with 3+ other people camping as well. This is a horrid system for bigger servers.

[Jojoya]

Levi has no plots left and then if one opens up you have to have no life to sit and camp with 3+ other people camping as well. This is a horrid system for bigger servers.

Yet it's not one they're going to change because they're using housing as an incentive to get players to move to the lower populations worlds. We've got so many open small and medium plots on Coeurl right now that someone could transfer and possibly get their dream plot if they weren't looking for a large (though we had a couple of larges relinquished this week - you never know).

Content is the same on all worlds short of player created events. Duty Finder is already matching players cross world so it's not like being on a high pop world is reducing queue times. You might have an easier time finding players for the more difficult notorious monster FATEs but that's about it when it comes to advantages.

You have to decide for yourself which is more important, having a house or being on a high pop world. Unless you're actively involved with your Free Company's events or a static, there's really little advantage to being on a high pop world.

Does your play style actually benefit from being on the high pop world or are you missing out?

[Sacriel]

Housing on Balmung is as good as done since patch release. Between making it extremely difficult to buy a house from another player and and there just being barely any plots left after the initial FC sale, if you were hoping for personal housing on the populated servers it's a pipe dream as of this point. If you're an RPer or plan on being with FFXIV long term, moving to a non-populated server is not a solution as those servers will eventually be merged anyway, on top of enjoying the benefits of large community that one obtains from being on a core server.

[Miles_Maelstrom]

There's still some smalls left in the ward I'm in. Gilgamesh, Mist Ward 13 if anyone is interested.

Oh I live there. Come see me at the medium Gaudy purple roof Shirogane Castle!

[Sacriel]

Cross Server PF is a thing. You're the one who wants housing in a place that is flooded with people with similar goals, vs going to other places where its available.



:rollseyes: At least you're doing you.

Please, no uses cross server party finder to play with their ex-FCs in any serious capacity besides plugging in a last slot. Also, these worlds are meant to be populated, otherwise they feel dead. Lack of housing on populated servers is a dev oversight at best and apathy at worst. Why wouldn't they want to accommodate these majority communities? Coming from Cactuar and other smaller/medium servers, there really is no comparison to the diverse and active communities on the large servers. If you want to play a solo game with some MMO aspects, by all means go small/medium worlds. If you want a long term experience with plenty of social interaction, populated servers are where it's at.

[MistakeNot]

The system with Congested/Standard/Preferred servers did work quite well - there are no longer any servers that can be considered small. Even the smallest of the servers have a sizeable enough population that if you want social interaction you can easily get it.

[Mahrze]

Please, no uses cross server party finder to play with their ex-FCs in any serious capacity besides plugging in a last slot. Also, these worlds are meant to be populated, otherwise they feel dead. Lack of housing on populated servers is a dev oversight at best and apathy at worst. Why wouldn't they want to accommodate these majority communities? Coming from Cactuar and other smaller/medium servers, there really is no comparison to the diverse and active communities on the large servers. If you want to play a solo game with some MMO aspects, by all means go small/medium worlds. If you want a long term experience with plenty of social interaction, populated servers are where it's at.

And who is contesting the notion and concept of population(and its ramifications)? High population is fine so long as it can be properly accommodated and catered to; however certain servers have more population than they should going by the server issues a few of them constantly cause. Now aside from reading how you fawn at the idea of overpopulation. It doesn't change that:

* Overpopulated Servers have a housing issue which they caused; which SE won't invest the ideal amount of time and attention to properly address it.
* SE won't add more wards just to large servers, because of how they explain their reasoning: their spaghetti code only allows adding the same across all worlds, thus there is no point for a server like Coeurl to have 24k houses with 70%+ vacant vs 24k houses on Balmung and still asking for more.
* If you want a house, there are servers that have them in excess. If Socializing > Personal house, then stay where you are.