possible solutions

[Svaltus]

Auctions
because I rather be guaranteed a house at a ridiculous price than stay up for 24 hours to not get one.

Reverse Auctions
start at a really high amount and drop by 5% every 24 hours. the price used to gate the content, but nowadays it's not really that difficult to make that much gil. more or less the system that's currently in place with a higher price. also people transferring to a different plot would have to go through the same process as everyone else, otherwise what's the point.

Lottery System
same housing system as the one that's currently in place, except when you find an open plot, you purchase a ticket for a drawing where the winner has exclusive rights to buying the plot for the next 24hrs and if it's not purchased within that time limit, the lottery restarts, and the previous winner cant buy another ticket for the same lot until the next time it goes up for sale.

Premium Housing Wards
pay some extra on your monthly sub for a house.

FC Apartments
self explanatory

FC Districts
separate districts for FC USE ONLY meaning you can only purchase a house there if your the leader of an FC and the size of the house you can buy is determined by the average amount of active FC members.(active meaning they just log in once every 2 months) this would be to prevent a dieing FC with 1 member left from keeping a plot to himself, when an alive FC would love to have it.

Instanced Housing
(on a plot of land in the environment of your choosing).
Or at least provide instanced plots in addition to the system that we have now, because alot of people wouldn't want to lose the progress they made.(the gil they saved up to buy a plot, the time they spent at a housing placard hoping they end up being the one that gets it. This guy has a great idea as far as instanced housing goes:

Make the plots instanced; Wall them off, have us interact with a gate or the placard to enter the instance. Would actually make the neighborhood feel of housing wards feel more alive; Rather than one or two groups gathering at the nearest Market Board, you'd have far more people. Right now everyone who owns Plot 3 in the Lavender Beds, for example... That's 1 plot spread across 18 wards + subdivisions, those people will rarely, if ever, see each other. Make the plot instanced though? They all gather in the same zone, walk up to the same placard, and enter their own instance. That'll feel far more like a neighborhood than what we currently have, which is pretty much just a dead zone...

Fix Transfers
make people who are transferring to another plot go through the same process as people who are not transferring.(you camp a spot for 16 hours and someone walks up and takes it in a few seconds, are you kidding me?)

***not a solution but I found these to be interesting***

Nobles Quarter Housing
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...threads/385689

Animal Crossing Style Housing
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...r-everyone-%21

Achievement Based Housing
create a legendary housing district for people who accomplish extremely difficult tasks in the game like top 10 pvp players in the server or those who clear the most difficult raids while having all jobs at max level whilst being the first to do so on their server, or art contest winners. things like that.

[Doozer]

Premium Housing Wards
pay some extra on your monthly sub for a house.

No.

We don't need more capitalist solutions. Why should people get to have a house because they're willing to pay more real money? We really don't need to completely mimic real life here.

[Svaltus]

No.

We don't need more capitalist solutions. Why should people get to have a house because they're willing to pay more real money? We really don't need to completely mimic real life here.

it would be in a completely different district. it's not like this concept would be applied to existing houses. people already pay extra money for additional retainers anyways.

[Svaltus]

No.

We don't need more capitalist solutions. Why should people get to have a house because they're willing to pay more real money? We really don't need to completely mimic real life here.

also how much more money do you think I'm talking about? I was thinking an extra 20$ a month or something close to that, also as someone who owns a house irl theres a HUGE difference between 20$ a month and a $10000 down payment. not even remotely close to mimicking real life.

[Gula]

also how much more money do you think I'm talking about? I was thinking an extra 20$ a month or something close to that, also as someone who owns a house irl theres a HUGE difference between 20$ a month and a $10000 down payment. not even remotely close to mimicking real life.

I was with you until $20, ain't nobody got time for that ('cept you it seems) for a house in XIV.

[UserHere]

also how much more money do you think I'm talking about? I was thinking an extra 20$ a month or something close to that, also as someone who owns a house irl theres a HUGE difference between 20$ a month and a $10000 down payment. not even remotely close to mimicking real life.

Damn you can pay my sub and I'll give you a house lol. Save us both money.

[Svaltus]

it's a hypothetical amount obviously, how much do you think would be appropriate?

[Svaltus]

Damn you can pay my sub and I'll give you a house lol. Save us both money.

yeah it's a shame ffxiv wont let you "rent" out your house to me, also you would have to be from behemoth cause I dont plan on transferring :P.

[Svaltus]

yeah it's a shame ffxiv wont let you "rent" out your house to me, also you would have to be from behemoth cause I dont plan on transferring :P.

although in all honesty, a renting feature would be a bad idea if it involved irl money

[Nalien]

Just make plots instanced... Only thing we lose is the ability to seamlessly walk onto plots, but I really don't think that outweighs all the negatives we currently have... Limited plot availability being the biggest offender, significantly reduced outdoor furniture limit being another...

Make plots instanced, keep the zones as they are apart from that. Rather than one or two groups gathering at their nearest market board, you'd have a lot more people, since one plot could now have several peoples version instanced. Everyone would just walk to their plot, click on the gate and select which instanced version of that plot to enter, effectively the same as how we enter different wards/subdivisions/apartments now. Could have a system in place where a snapshot of players plots are randomly displayed in the zone to make it feel more lively, or just use template houses to fill the space... Either way, I think potentially being able to have unlimited availability of plots, higher furniture cap for gardens, and making the zones themselves more crowded are all massive benefits that I'd much rather see than "I can jump over the fence to leave my plot".

Heck, making the whole plot instanced might actually let you work some other seamless aspect in, namely letting us just walk into the house rather than selecting it and zoning in... Let that upper floor balcony door finally function, give us greater variety of furniture since outdoor and indoor furniture would now be the same thing, although placing a pond indoors does seem silly, but more freedom and options to create something is never a bad thing, IMO. Heck, could place stuff on the mansion balcony with such a system...