A possible solution to the housing system that wouldn't be too hard to do, maybe...

[Eriane_Elis]

I've mentioned this before but I think FF14 should consider a different approach with the housing system since wards / demolition timers aren't really practical or fair to the player base, especially new players who will have to wait until about June to try and get a house.

Idea:
They could have each house as an instance where the exterior becomes whoever you went there last and the sign post at the front lets you change the house to whoever else lives there.

It could default to your friend or FC mate's house if someone you know lives there, otherwise it could be whoever got voted highest or something for that week.

Voting system? Why yes! People could rate houses if you wanted your house to be ranked. Just get a guestbook and enable it in the settings.

People don't go around visiting houses as much as they could at least in the US servers (Not sure about Japan) but having it instance based this way would eliminate the need to have demolition and everyone could get a house if they wanted.

FC could have a house, mansion and perhaps in the future some sort of private instanced island? These are just ideas but I think that the ward/demolition system is pretty bad and people have complained about it since it its inception. There are many ways to go about this and making it instance based wouldn't, in theory be too difficult to implement (but this is a huge assumption on the leeway they have), the wards are already there overlapping each other.

I know, some of you just want dungeons and raids, but what about the rest of us who spend a huge chunk of play time crafting furniture and re-designing our house a lot? With WoW refugees coming in left and right, and world visit system coming, FF14 is about to embark in some serious membership momentum and wards will not hold especially when the next IRL disaster happens and the timer stops again.