Individual housing still sucks

[Raynesee]

SE quickly becoming that of Blizzard by not paying attn to or caring about what the players want. How hard is it really to implement housing enough for EVERYONE? 18 wards was the best you could come up with?? Might as well put a carrot on a stick. 50 wards would have been plenty and not that hard to do it's not like the wards are all different copy cut and paste get with the program. What a concept please the player base that keeps you in business cause without us you're nothing, thought you understood that concept the first go around guess you need another lesson in what not to do keep pis*ing off the player base = loss of revenue just ask Blizzard. Players are going to hoard it's what they do so why not compensate for it knowing there isn't much you can do to stop it except flood it. For once I'd like a game that doesn't reflect current life situations it's why I play to get away from all that BS only to come find it here. Rant over.

[MistakeNot]

Everything is easy for those who don't have to do it themselves.
It is not a question of it being hard to add more housing wards, it is a question of each additional ward adding extra load on the servers, so adding too many wards can cause the servers to start lagging or become unstable - something nobody wants to happen.

[KiraCifer]

not the issue of making the wards in the problem of the sever being able to handle it said some time ago with all the housing and account the sever get strained adding more only mess with it more then all they need the whiner going off cause the sever crash for afew days

[SlayerOmega]

My entire ward is empty.... but then again I'm on Coeurl so idk.

[KiraCifer]

My entire ward is empty.... but then again I'm on Coeurl so idk.

mean empty as in no one around most times or as in house for sale still?

[illgot]

On my server there are a lot of small and a few meds available.

You may need to transfer to a lower pop server.

[Pastahnak]

Why only 50 wards? That only gives me 100 plots for the specific plot I want. We need a ward for each active/inactive/bot/ungermaxer player. If SE does that insanely simple thing I will be happy.

[Sylvastreak]

it's not only the wards themselves adding load to the servers, but... Private rooms and company workshops. Every single piece of furniture. Effects from items you can interact with. Orchestrion music in each house. Crops growing in gardening plots, flower pots. NPC vendors. Lighting adjustments. It all adds to the servers' loads and can cause lag and crashes. Be patient and they may add more in the future.

[NanaKim]

The problem-solving strategie of SE is quite static: just adding a specific amount of wards on each server and each district, not caring about demand. Server with high population lack of free plots, low population servers have plenty of plots left over and normal populated server are somewhat happy. Also some districts are more popular than others, so some districts are just occupied because of the M/L-sized plots.
The solution is quite easy: dynamic ward generator. Adding additional wards when needed. With this system every server will have enough wards and plots. In addition map layout changes should be considered: less small plots, more M/L-sized plots in wards.
Since personal housing was available (about 3 years ago), all SE did was adding wards, even the last housing patch (4.2) was technically just adding wards (and a bunch of restrictions, which still can be outsmarted). In other words: best solution SE could think of in 3 years was adding additional wards.

[SlayerOmega]

Like, all of the plots in my ward are empty. I got up early for when servers went up last patch... now I feel stupid.