Let's Talk Housing

[Deceptus]

Defensive much? Anyone opened a thread is subjected to scrutiny. There is nothing subjectively wrong with what the person you quoted said, and it's no where near as rude as your own response to it.

But it is bad forum etiquette to start a thread when there is already the exact same subject multiple times.

It just shows entitlement and narcissism. Look at my thread, my point is more important than those OTHER ones.

[EaMett]

They will only add wards and zones for about 30% of the server populations to get housing. That's what they're doing this time as well. This hasn't changed in the past 4+ years, and I don't see it changing in the future. It's a good design imo, it's just that the current plackard clicking is a stupid mechanic that needs to be changed.

[Enla]

They will only add wards and zones for about 30% of the server populations to get housing. That's what they're doing this time as well. This hasn't changed in the past 4+ years, and I don't see it changing in the future. It's a good design imo, it's just that the current plackard clicking is a stupid mechanic that needs to be changed.

Honestly I'm at the point I'd take a raffle over the current system. At least it would free up time to actually play the game and if you lose it's up to RNG, not rage inducing bad luck because someone else click spammed at just the right time.

[Rasikko]

With what, 14+ million subscribers there shouldn't possibly be a funding issue if it's a matter of server space allocation/server load.

This game would be doing real good for a 6yr old game if it had 14,000,000 active subscriptions. However, active ones climbed to just over a mil with Shadowbringers.

I'd like to see that madness actually. Me taking 5 minutes to load into any area, and places the never needed instanced areas will now have them. Queues would be longer because dungeon instances are full up to the rim. Forget housing, can't even get into any wards.

[Barraind]

Once again, not a single server got even close to being capped on houses when new last set of wards were added.

Cactuar had 0 houses available within a week of the last wards being added.

I bought the last available goblet house 4 days after those were added.

I imagine several of the other high pop servers had the same issue.

[Raven2014]

Cactuar had 0 houses available within a week of the last wards being added.

I bought the last available goblet house 4 days after those were added.

I imagine several of the other high pop servers had the same issue.

No. Gilgamesh still had house WEEKS after the last housing was added.

[Vrankyl]

As most of us are painfully aware, trying to obtain a house either for personal use or FC use is next to impossible on high population servers such as Gilgamesh, Balmung and Mateus.

The wards that have been added were full within minutes on those servers and they will be filled again (Within minutes) come the release of 5.1. It's long overdue that we get a more reliable answer to the housing problem on those servers.

Uh... As someone who was on Balmung during the last time they added new wards I can tell you that the only thing that was filled within minutes ((And I mean like 15-30 minutes)) were the Mediums and Larges. I had no issue upgrading my small to a medium during that in one of the new wards and that was 20 minutes after the servers went live. Hell in the older Wards they lasted even longer, we were seeing mediums in the Goblet hours after the new wards went live. Then there was the fact that most of the new wards were then empty beyond belief since no one was really buying smalls at all. It wasn't until they lifted the restriction on personal house purchases that they filled up.

[Angellos]

Uh... As someone who was on Balmung during the last time they added new wards I can tell you that the only thing that was filled within minutes ((And I mean like 15-30 minutes)) were the Mediums and Larges. I had no issue upgrading my small to a medium during that in one of the new wards and that was 20 minutes after the servers went live. Hell in the older Wards they lasted even longer, we were seeing mediums in the Goblet hours after the new wards went live. Then there was the fact that most of the new wards were then empty beyond belief since no one was really buying smalls at all. It wasn't until they lifted the restriction on personal house purchases that they filled up.

Mateus and Balmung had no housing left whatsoever once the FC only restriction was lifted. The rest of the houses were gobbled up in under an hour. It doesn't matter if they're gobbled all up by FC's, or gobbled up by a combination of FCs and Individuals: There's still many FCs that are homeless and can only buy a house during the RARE ward expansions like this one and there are PLENTY of individuals who would love a private home and can't get one because they scarcely come open.

Even when they do come open, people have to camp them for up to 24 hours just to have a CHANCE at clicking it at just the right time to claim it before the other 40 people get it.

Horrible system.

[SigmaOZ]

My dream housing system would be one that allowed me to have my personal mansion, my FC mansion and my alt characters' homes under the same ward and the only solution for that would be "instanced housing" most likely, in order to avoid conflicts with other players.


I guess we'd need one instanced ward per account in order to automatically have plots available for the account's characters but the system could also allow said account to invite other player's characters to live in the "personal instanced ward".

[Mistyregions]

I saw remove housing. Take the toys away because people are petty, jealous, and can't handle not having access to everything. It's very childish to be fair.