First successful housing patch??

[worldofneil]

Or they can actually add more wards on demand for different servers...

They won't want to do that because from a systems management perspective, it's a lot easier if all 66 worlds all have exactly the same configuration.

[tymora]

They won't want to do that because from a systems management perspective, it's a lot easier if all 66 worlds all have exactly the same configuration.

That's just an excuse to cover their inability to make a scalable backend. Bad database design perhaps.

[Final-Fantasy]

Omega is a fairly well populated world and we have an assortment of plots remaining, what is funny though, of the plots that are taken only a small portion of them have any furnishings and in a lot of cases are completely empty and have been since creation months a go. One of my friends has a neighbor that owns plot 5 in Mist which is all good and fine except this guy doesn't actually play on Omega he just logs in to keep ownership so nobody else could obtain it, this is probably true for many plots, people just want to own plots and have no intention of using them at all.

[Big_Panda]

I still see quite a number of small plots left on my server (Behemoth)

It is like barely anyone bothered getting up this morning to make the rush

[Alien_Gamer]

I think we've reached the point where there are enough wards to satisfy demand across all the servers but a few servers (Balmung) are still so full that they'll never have enough wards. Future expansions are likely to have more housing areas which means 18 more wards each expansion, I think that will alleviate some of the overpopulation issues and provide room for growth.

[Kleeya]

For my part i wonder at what point the ranting has only been delayed. Sure there seems to be a lot of free houses, which make people says that the offer has finally meet the demand, but it seems some of them simply can not be bought at all because of the random demolition timer still going on. That was the case of the first two i tried to buy. People were ranting today in my linkshells on how they lost 4 hours waiting for the timer to stop only to have their plot of choice snatched by someone else, then they were moving on to another plot and beginning to wait again, etc. And by doing that they were not thinking of ranting in the forums, not when a single moment's innatention could mean another spot taken from them.

So before saying too fast that this patch is successful i think we might need more datas, like waiting to all the demolition timer to stop, all the spots to be bought, and then see how many people will still be without a house and what their reaction will be.

[HyoMinPark]

So before saying too fast that this patch is successful i think we might need more datas, like waiting to all the demolition timer to stop, all the spots to be bought, and then see how many people will still be without a house and what their reaction will be.

There will always be players without houses, simply because there isn’t enough supply to meet the demand. The smallest JP server is still a little over 6,500 active players, and there are only 4,320 houses per server. Compare that to Balmung, which LuckyBancho put at ~23,000 active players, that’s only enough houses for 18.8% of Balmung, but 66.5% of the smallest JP server (which I believe was either Aegis or Valefor at the time of Lucky’s last census). The numbers aren’t for-sures since the census is unofficial, and it doesn’t account for things like those that had multiple houses before the 4.2 restrictions were in place, how many of those active characters are alts, how many can even buy a house, etc., but just to give you an idea.
I feel like I should also specify here—there aren’t enough larges/mediums for people on the more populated servers. People don’t want to settle for smalls or for houses in...less desirable districts...but a house is a house. They can complain there’s no plots, but when the Goblet is setting mostly empty because people won’t move there out of stubbornness (I guess), that’s not the fault of the system. That’s the fault of people thinking they’re better than the smaller plots or the housing districts they don’t like or deem “worthy”.

But the fact that there were still devalued plots left on Cactuar—which has the 3rd highest population according to unofficial censes of around ~17,000—tells me that it’s still pretty successful. Hours later and there are still plots, versus 4.1 where everything was gone within 15 minutes, and a bunch of players got lobby errors and 90k’s just trying to get into the game because the servers couldn’t handle the strain of everyone loading into Kugane/Shirogane at once. Like someone said earlier in the thread, it’s kind of like 3.3, which was very successful except on the highly populated servers where there was an extremely noticeable shortage, and extremely vocal complaints about it.

There will always be outlier servers like Balmung that will never have enough houses to satisfy their populations, but if there are only complaints from 1 or 2 servers out of the 50+ this game has, I would consider it largely a success. I think 4.2 Housing was very successful, and I’m glad for everyone that got a house during it. The relocation timer thing is annoying, and losing a house due to not clicking at just the right moment when it expires sucks; I won’t deny that. But it was put in to try and curb at least the personal house flippers. It hasn’t stopped the FC sellers/flippers, sadly, or those who say they will relinquish plots for relocation purchases, but there will always be those who find loopholes in any system, however perfect or imperfect.

[Kleeya]

Ty for adding so much details.

About the Goblet i did check the free spots on Shiva some time ago :

- Shirogane : all is gone ;
- Lavender beds : only one small left ;
- The Mist : 4 small left ;
- The Goblet : 52 small houses left !

I didn't type the Goblet's number incorrectly, i really mean 50+2, or 31+21. I did know it wasn't popular, but i wasn't expecting such a difference XD

[ElasmoFan]

This is why I think at this point they need to look into upgrading the apartments into becoming bigger and adding the false patios they were talking about to allow gardening and a few outdoor furnitures. The server can't handle enough wards to support everyone that wants one on those larger servers and at the very least a larger apartment with patio feature could still give people more room to furnish then the walk in closet they currently have plus the only real feature they seem to be missing out on. Sure you can't get everything but at this point they've still reached a larger player base being satisfied and it's a good time to look at their apartments now.

[Lalarrific]

There were more than half a dozen plots available in my Mist subdivision on Faerie for most of the day. I'd call that a success.