So SE.. Hows your new wards working out?

[Penthea]

Oh look, another white knight defending a flawed system just because it happens to work out for them.

He's right though. Not all the wards are completely full on every server. There's still plots left on Moogle and it has a moderately high population. I expect not all the wards are full on servers with similar or smaller population. This has honestly been the most successful housing patch to date.

Balmung's situation sucks but this happened because of the players. SE didn't designate it as the official rp server, the community did that. Any player there who has housing as a very high priority should leave as they may never get a house otherwise. With cross server friends now possible, it's not difficult to keep in touch with friends from other servers.

[Syrehn]

Stop telling people to switched servers, that's horrible. My server used to have tons of people. could always find people to do fates with and hunts. Now most zones are dead because of the incentive to change servers and we are supposed to be a "high population server" yet there is still no housing open. If there are a bunch of servers with a lot of open house's they need to combine servers not ask people to switch. That will destroy games more then anything is not having anyone on your own server to do anything with.

Greg had LOADS of housing available, the majority in the goblet and all pretty much smalls, from the minute it opened until at least the following evening. Considering how fast houses were getting snapped up before by flippers and such (i.e. all gone in minutes across all wards), I'd say this was the most successful ward release we've had.

Also, they can't just merge servers together. There's this whole fun thing with characters with duplicate names, duplicates wards/housing plots and a bunch of other jazz. They can barely keep things together as is (I'm looking at you inventory issues) with their spaghetti code, let alone work out a proper server merge.

[Ametrine]

Snip.

I wouldn't switch a server for a house, so much as just explaining that their is no issue of housing shortages on many servers.

But the idea that smaller servers=lifeless servers with no community is a baffling conclusion. The actual truth is our economy is slower moving and the lack of housing urgency means no one is bum rushing and snapping them up. There are plenty of players who don't own homes who don't want one, and apartments are pretty popular.

There is zero reason to merge healthy servers together to make them all as horribly bloated as a few are.

[NephthysVasudan]

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Fact: you're on a heavily populated server
Fact: heavy population = heavy demand
Conclusion - you didn't think this through did you.

Btw - got lots of open plots on my server....maybe its just because people need to consider transferring to less populated servers to have better odds in getting houses? If your so hard pressed to get a house that is.
Note I didn't say I was in favor of the system.
I'm just pointing out that your posting in ignorance of a few obvious facts.

[Tinibou]

It's kinda working out but still, on one hand it's not enough and on a second hand, they shouldn't stop adding wards to old districts. I mean, what's the point of adding X new instances in the four districts where 75% of the players just want their house in Shirogane ? If they want to add 6 new wards in Shirogane, well then add only 4 to the previous ones and then 9 in Shirogane instead.

[Penthea]

It's kinda working out but still, on one hand it's not enough and on a second hand, they shouldn't stop adding wards to old districts. I mean, what's the point of adding X new instances in the four districts where 75% of the players just want their house in Shirogane ? If they want to add 6 new wards in Shirogane, well then add only 4 to the previous ones and then 9 in Shirogane instead.

Are you sure the number is that high? Shirogane is definitely super popular but the Goblet is the only district that is very noticeably less desirable. At least on Moogle I don't think it's as high as 75%. Maybe 40%. Still very high though, obviously.

I don't think they'll ever add more of one district than the other. I see very little complaints about not getting a house in Shirogane and having to get one elsewhere. Most just seem happy enough to get a house. It really isn't popular enough to cause a huge issue large enough for SE to consider adding extra Shirogane wards.

[Vidu]

I mean, what's the point of adding X new instances in the four districts where 75% of the players just want their house in Shirogane ?

They explaind that thats not possible.

And curse about spaghetti-code all you like (you're probably not wrong), but I feel that this again is "Do you really want a house... or do you just want your dream house?"
I consider that kinda funny... before 4.2 we had so many people saying "I just want a house at all!" - once 4.2 dropped and they noticed that all the medium and large plots were going and they would be able to buy a small house, but not plot 30/60 in Shirogane they complained about that... I totally understand wanting your dream location (I'm happy enough to get mine - in the Goblet) - I have however little understanding for not seeking out an alternative plot.

[silverlunarfox]

I was going to throw out the question of what???! We still have mediums and smalls in some areas. Though they've been slowly filling.

Then I saw your server, you will never have enough housing for your server it seems...

On a whole this was extremely effective this time around for our server. No, it's far from perfect, but alot of FC's and players were able to get houses on our server and its nice to see.

[Flashgordon1975]

Oh look, another white knight defending a flawed system just because it happens to work out for them.

It did work. They are many houses available across servers. If housing means that much to these players they can move. If it does not they can stay on their server and wait on new wards or auto demolition. I am with Madbunny on this one, it gets tiresome seeing the non-stop complaining. No it is not perfect, but no it is not as bad as some make it sound either.

[Flashgordon1975]

Stop telling people to switched servers, that's horrible. My server used to have tons of people. could always find people to do fates with and hunts. Now most zones are dead because of the incentive to change servers and we are supposed to be a "high population server" yet there is still no housing open. If there are a bunch of servers with a lot of open house's they need to combine servers not ask people to switch. That will destroy games more then anything is not having anyone on your own server to do anything with.

I am on a preferred world...aka low population. We have no trouble.