Housing Census!

[shaiel]

Also, just FYI, Aether now has 5 congested servers and NO preferred servers... The only datacenter with preferred servers is now Crystal. Make of that what you will...

Yup. Look at Aether and primal as of right now. If Crystal is so full then why are all the preferred NA servers on Crystal? Looking at this census thread the most housing is also always on Crystal. There is a reason FCs and people left Crystal datacenter and left their housing there. They keep transferring to Aether and Primal. And it's true, a lot of people on Balmung / Mateus have alt toons that's why the population seems so high.

I personally was on Crystal datacenter on my alt toon and I moved that to Primal after a week of horrible duty roulette. Goblin itself was absolutely fine and lovely, I really liked my FC as well. I know they did farms and had a raid group. But for queue times, they were high, people spammed emotes / macros in dungeons instead of actually dpsing or healing, and I finally quit when this dps from Balmung was harassing me in Aurum Vale. While he was dying to aoes and our whm (also from Balmung) was RPing, this dps was typing toxic things in chat. Crystal might be ok in the future but while I was there I had an absolutely horrible time, especially compared to when I log on to my main character. People who are already on Crystal with formed FCs and formed raid groups will be fine because they're not affected. People who pug and do random roulette are probably the ones leaving, like I did.

[Jojoya]

Coeurl update Jun-18-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 3 / 0 / 0
Mist: 0 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 82 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0

If Crystal is so full then why are all the preferred NA servers on Crystal?

Before the NA data center change happened, what were the preferred NA servers?

Brynhildr
Coeurl
Diabolos
Goblin
Malboro
Zalera

Those names look familiar? SE bundled up every preferred world in NA and stuck them all in Crystal along with Balmung and Mateus. Is it really any wonder that the only remaining preferred worlds in NA happen to be worlds that were preferred in the first place?

Did I ever state that Crystal was full? No, I said Crystal was fine. If people were abandoning Crystal in droves like some of you have been trying to imply, then all 6 of the worlds that were preferred before the data center change should still be preferred. Instead only currently 3 are. The population here has grown whether you guys want to believe it or not, just as the population has grown on the worlds in Aether and Primal.

Ask yourselves why you're so obsessed with the population on Crystal when you don't play here. What does it matter to you when it's got nothing to do with your queue times or party finder listings? Maybe stick to worrying about what's going on in your own data centers instead of taking pot shots at another one.

If we are as low pop as you're implying, at least we'll be getting to play the game next week while you're stuck in neverending queues. Enjoy!

[shaiel]

Coeurl update Jun-18-2019

S/M/L
Lavender Beds: 3 / 0 / 0
Mist: 0 / 0 / 0
Goblet: 82 / 0 / 0
Shirogane: 0 / 0 / 0


Before the NA data center change happened, what were the preferred NA servers?

Brynhildr
Coeurl
Diabolos
Goblin
Malboro
Zalera

Those names look familiar? SE bundled up every preferred world in NA and stuck them all in Crystal along with Balmung and Mateus. Is it really any wonder that the only remaining preferred worlds in NA happen to be worlds that were preferred in the first place?

Did I ever state that Crystal was full? No, I said Crystal was fine. If people were abandoning Crystal in droves like some of you have been trying to imply, then all 6 of the worlds that were preferred before the data center change should still be preferred. Instead only currently 3 are. The population here has grown whether you guys want to believe it or not, just as the population has grown on the worlds in Aether and Primal.

Ask yourselves why you're so obsessed with the population on Crystal when you don't play here. What does it matter to you when it's got nothing to do with your queue times or party finder listings? Maybe stick to worrying about what's going on in your own data centers instead of taking pot shots at another one.

If we are as low pop as you're implying, at least we'll be getting to play the game next week while you're stuck in neverending queues. Enjoy!

Also from you in this thread yesterday -

And yet what data center came up with the largest population in the latest Lucky census?

Crystal.

If all people care about is raiding then yes they're going to consider Crystal dead. It's very lively in other aspects of the game, though. The game world doesn't revolve around raiding nor does the data center revolve around Balmung.

Again, Crystal is doing just fine.

Other preferred worlds that were preferred before and after the datacenter split: Midgardsormr, Siren, Lamia, Hyperion, Famfrit, etc on both Primal and Aether. There's the census you're referring to in your comment yesterday about Crystal being high pop, and then there's what square enix themselves have announced today for preferred, standard and congested servers. You yourself said Crystal datacenter has highest population when in aether you can't even make a character on any server at peak times and it has 5 congested worlds, not 1. No wonder there's no housing available in aether.

And going back to counting houses in this thread - Famfrit today had 5 small in lav beds, 2 in Mist, a couple in Goblet. No mediums. The plots from the big demo day are getting snatched.

[Jojoya]

Also from you in this thread yesterday -

Other preferred worlds that were preferred before and after the datacenter split: Midgardsormr, Siren, Lamia, Hyperion, Famfrit, etc on both Primal and Aether. There's the census you're referring to in your comment yesterday about Crystal being high pop, and then there's what square enix themselves have announced today for preferred, standard and congested servers. You yourself said Crystal datacenter has highest population when in aether you can't even make a character on any server at peak times and it has 5 congested worlds, not 1. No wonder there's no housing available in aether.

Those worlds you list definitely were standard worlds before split, see

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...dcf46648031b74
(changes as of Jan 2019, which was the last change to world status for NA servers prior to the data center re-organization), and

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...bf5eb4f6a9f9c2
(changes in Sept 2018, which had been change previous to January's).

All the preferred worlds in NA at the time the data center reorganization occurred went to Crystal as I stated. It was something that many people commented on in the weeks between the announcement of which worlds would be on which data center and the change occurring because it felt strange that all the preferred worlds were being placed together in the same data center instead of spread out across them all.

Were some of those worlds you listed made preferred in May when they made the post-split adjustments? Yes. SE was still trying to achieve some balance in world populations at that point and it appeared they were trying to do it by data center instead of across the entire region. Every data center had 1 congested world, 2 or 3 preferred worlds and 4 or 5 standard worlds designated until the new change this week.

That Crystal is the only data center that still has preferred worlds left does not mean that Crystal is losing players. It just means that Aether and Primal have picked up more of the new and returning players than Crystal did. Populations here are still very healthy, which is what I've been trying to point out.

Crystal is fine.

[AnnaRosa]

Chaos DC:

Ragnarok 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 3 S

- The Lavender Beds: 2 S

- The Goblet: 3 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Omega 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 10 S

- The Lavender Beds: 15 S

- The Goblet: 63 S

- Shirogane: 13 S
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Cerberus 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 2 S

- The Lavender Beds: 2 S

- The Goblet: 11 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Moogle 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 2 S

- The Lavender Beds: 2 S

- The Goblet: 1 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Louisouix 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 50 S

- The Lavender Beds: 43 S

- The Goblet: 265 S + 4 M
medium:
ward 4th plot 4 price: 19.000.000 gil
ward 9th plot 8 price: 18.000.000 gil
ward 17th plot 4 price: 18.840.000 gil
ward 18th plot 55 price: 15.865.000 gil

- Shirogane: 28 S

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Spriggan 19th June around 07:00 GMT +1, plots not available.

[AnnaRosa]

Chaos DC:

Ragnarok 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 1 S

- The Lavender Beds: 1 S

- The Goblet: 1 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Omega 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 10 S

- The Lavender Beds: 14 S

- The Goblet: 66 S

- Shirogane: 6 S
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Cerberus 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 0 S

- The Lavender Beds: 0 S

- The Goblet: 1 S

- Shirogane: 1 S
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Moogle 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 0 S

- The Lavender Beds: 0 S

- The Goblet: 1 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Louisouix 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 56 S

- The Lavender Beds: 43 S

- The Goblet: 295+ 2 M

- Shirogane: 25 S

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Spriggan 21th June around 12:00 GMT +1, plots not available.

[AnnaRosa]

Chaos DC:

Ragnarok 23th June around 11:50 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 0 S

- The Lavender Beds: 0 S

- The Goblet: 2 S

- Shirogane: 1 S
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Omega 23th June around 11:40 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 16 S

- The Lavender Beds: 16 S

- The Goblet: 70 S + 1 L

- Shirogane: 2 S
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Cerberus 23th June around 11:40 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 2 S

- The Lavender Beds: 2 S

- The Goblet: 2 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Moogle 23th June around 11:45 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 0 S

- The Lavender Beds: 1 S

- The Goblet: 3 S

- Shirogane: 0 S
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Louisouix 23th June around 11:36 GMT +1, small plots available:

- Mist: 63 S + 2M

- The Lavender Beds: 46 S

- The Goblet: 260+ 5 M

- Shirogane: 22 S + 1 M

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Spriggan 23th June around 11:36 GMT +1, plots not available.

[Naria]

Aether Data Center (NA) 7/16/2019

Adamantoise

Mist
1 Small

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Cactaur (Congested--Locked)

Mist
No Vacancy

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Lavender Beds
1 Small

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Fairie

Mist
1 Small

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Gilgamesh (Congested--Locked)

Mist
1 Small

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Jenova

Mist
2 Small

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Shirogane
1 Small

Migardsormr

Mist
No Vacancy

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Sargatanas

Mist
No Vacancy

The Goblet
2 Small

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

Siren

Mist
1 Small

The Goblet
No Vacancy

Lavender Beds
No Vacancy

Shirogane
No Vacancy

[Sifr]

Hi Everyone,

I just transferred to the Goblin server but the housing market is pretty congested here too. Would anyone kindly direct me to a server where I can easily buy a plot without running into bots or competition?

[FengZhou]

Hi Everyone,

I just transferred to the Goblin server but the housing market is pretty congested here too. Would anyone kindly direct me to a server where I can easily buy a plot without running into bots or competition?

Sadly.. bots are everywhere. I lost a few homes this week on Balmung due to botters. I reported them as did other people who where there trying earnestly and guess what? Nothing happened -.-; Pretty disappointed tbh. I guess it's legal to use bots since nothing happens to people doing it..