Quote Originally Posted by Manabender View Post
Believe me, the servers absolutely can handle enough wards for everyone. Some back-of-the-envelope math suggests that an entire datacenter worth of housing wards would fit on a ten dollar flash drive, and even if people accessed their homes near-constantly, the end cost would be about 0.2% of the sub costs gained from all those players. Also, I grossly overestimated everything wherever possible.
You're assuming it's a disk capacity issue, it's not. It's a resource issue.

The housing wards are zones that are always running. Each server has 4 housing areas, each with 18 wards and 2 subdivisions and that's a total of 144 zones that are always running, all the time. That's more than every other zone combined.

But then multiply it by 66 servers... that's 9,504 zones they have to keep running all the time. It's not even a one time hardware purchase, but ongoing maintenance and support too.

I'm not saying I agree with how it's done, but if they could realistically add more for the cost of a "ten dollar flash drive", it seems pretty obvious they would have?