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[Kenky]

Housing needs to be limited to ensure there's a demand. Meaning people would be more inclined to pay the plot cost, regardless of what the cost was. That's what I was getting at. If you read the full post, especially regarding the recommendation on "auctions", then you'd have a better take on it.

So long as there is a demand, SE can jack up the pricing on all plots and people would still go out of their way to get one. That's how much worth and weight the community put on a bunch of code that has no real benefit (outside of FC ownership) beside growing onions.

[Edax]

Housing needs to be limited to ensure there's a demand.

Since there will always be a demand regardless, there's little reason to try and ensure the demand.

That's how much worth and weight the community put on a bunch of code that has no real benefit (outside of FC ownership) beside growing onions.

Player engagement is the most important benefit of which houses do provide in a practical sense. Scarcity isn't the prime cause of the demand (and if it was that would be a really shallow reason spend gil).

[Vahlnir]

Housing needs to be limited to ensure there's a demand. Meaning people would be more inclined to pay the plot cost, regardless of what the cost was. That's what I was getting at. If you read the full post, especially regarding the recommendation on "auctions", then you'd have a better take on it.

So long as there is a demand, SE can jack up the pricing on all plots and people would still go out of their way to get one. That's how much worth and weight the community put on a bunch of code that has no real benefit (outside of FC ownership) beside growing onions.

But you are still missing the point. A higher supply would meet the higher demand, therefore become an actual gil sink which removes gil from the game entirely. There will always be a demand. However, if they keep to their current route, there will never be enough supply...which won't remove gil from the economy. Or it won't remove enough to really matter. Housing should NOT be this limited.

[Kenky]

But you are still missing the point. A higher supply would meet the higher demand, therefore become an actual gil sink which removes gil from the game entirely. There will always be a demand. However, if they keep to their current route, there will never be enough supply...which won't remove gil from the economy. Or it won't remove enough to really matter. Housing should NOT be this limited.

You're missing the point that housing was never meant for every single player A higher supply would help the three or four (if that) servers that are fit-to-bursting (because the players are too damn stubborn to move to a less congested server, despite SE making it easy to keep friends and contact nowadays) while ensuring that the servers that barely have any purchased plots become even more of a ghost-town, wasting resources.

You want a house so badly? Move off a server that's always congested or play by the rules set to you. Not demand a fundamental system be changed because you were unlucky. Especially when the current system is doing its job as it's supposed to do. nobody has an edge, nobody has a higher % to get the house. It's all down to timing and being there at the right moment.

Can't get any fairer than that. If you think otherwise, then stop deluding yourself.