Quote Originally Posted by Sylvaneste View Post
I just checked reddit housing.....you mean like the 450 million gil for a large house on my server.....

SE needs to allow every house to be upgraded to a large house, and remove the housing from "personal" housing. If you want personal housing, get an apartment. Limit housing to one toon per account. Sorry folks, your fc does not need an fc house and all 40 members do not need their own houses. That is what the private rooms are for. Which, should be larger.

The only way to get a large house on my server, is to pay 450 million or get a bunch of alts into multiple FC's and hope the leaders stop logging in and you get lucky enough to take over.

It is all stupid. There is content locked behind FC housing. But over half the housing, is personal housing.
Why would you want empty housing wards? There aren't enough FCs who want a house to fill up all the wards. Don't believe me? Go check Spriggan and Twintania right now. Only FCs can buy houses on those worlds currently. Here's a screenshot I took on Spriggan last night. The wards have been open to FC purchase for 3 weeks now, more than enough time for any interested FC to purchase a house if they desired.


SE would have to cut wards back down to the original 6 to make wards seem full if only FCs could own. Even then, a large percentage would end up owned by individual players who set up shell FCs for the sake of owning a house. There's nothing SE could do to stop them that wouldn't also penalize small FCs.

To allow plots to be upgraded, they'd have to remove the current wards and replace them with redesigned wards with plots able to accommodate any size of house. That would cause even greater outrage then the minor complaints they're getting from small number of players frustrated by not being able to buy a house because they refuse to move from their full worlds to the worlds that have housing available. Many players and FCs have purchased their houses specifically for their current location and view, which would no longer exist. Some of them like small plots and would hate being forced into taking a large one.

The real way to get a large on your world is to wait for a current owner to relinquish their house and be the first one to click the placard. That's the way it's been since the start. Large plots n the wards are intended to be rare, whether players like that or not.

If your concern is access to the workshop, then you should do what others have done - encourage SE to detach the FC workshop from housing and put the entrance in a central location, like the affiliated Grand Company headquarters just as we have our squadron barracks there. That way no FC would be forced to buy a house just for the sake of having a workshop.