possible solutions

[Alyanna_Elingval]

1) Not for auctions, it would just encourage people to buy gil.

2) They don't need to do reverse auctions, they just need to have housing prices reflect the current market. That would reduce the demand immediately.

3) I'm probably in the minority, but I would pay a sub for my house if it meant that housing got constant updates. At the end of the day SE has finite resources for the game, and they're going to use those for story and endgame content before they do housing. I'm on a committee at my job that goes over our roadmap every month, and every month the CEO says the same thing. I have this many projects and this many balls. I'm going place these balls on projects I think will have the biggest impact. You want more balls, get me more revenue. If you ask players would they rather have story and endgame content or housing, housing isn't going to win.

4) FC apartment, this could work.

5) I've thrown out the idea of FC exclusive wards before. While I think that there should be a minimum member count to get a medium and a large, I don't agree with snatching a house from a FC if they fall below a certain threshold. They just need a way to stop FC from padding their ranks with lvl 1 players that are never going to be active members just to reach the thresholds.

6) Instanced Housing is fine as long people who have plots get to keep them. I craft as much as I do anything else in the game, maybe more, and I do it in a spot I made in my front yard. I bought plot 45 in the Mist just so I can do this and look out on the water, especially at sunset.

7) When they add more wards everyone should have the same chance at it. They shouldn't add new Wards and give transfers early access.

They also need to improve apartments. Maybe make some multiple floors, some penthouses, etc. Just like you have small, medium and Large plots. This would reduce the demand for actual houses as well.