Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
Also, there's more to gardening than onions. A lot of people who own houses now don't even garden. Housing is also important for FCs to access airships and submarines.
To quote myself from another thread

"You mean the Voyage system you can use at the Foundation Airship dock? (Not the submarine one, so I'll concede that.) The one that, to my knowledge, is still there and easily used by everyone, regardless of FC affiliation?"

And yes, there are many different things that you can do with Gardening. But the majority (of people I know, at least) do it just to avoid the 2 - 3m Onion cost for Chocobos. On top of the rather tired point of "Adding plots isn't simple".

Honestly, it's like people intentionally avoid or ignore the information floating about and instead assume that they know best, when they're not even employed by SE and know about as much as the rest of us do regarding how things can / should work. Yes, NA needs more plots, but adding more won't fix the issue. It'll merely delay it. What happens when the new wards get full? Add more plots? What about the next time? and the next time?

All the while, plenty of the servers that aren't having a "housing crisis" become more and more desolate, to the point of actually becoming a noteworthy problem with wasted data. You can't expect to have a good chance of getting it when you're #1,098,245,872 in line, since the NA datacenters are congested to the point that the "Datacenter split" was seemingly not a fix. Because we're having the same issues.