Lost my House

[Eldevern]

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It wouldn't feel lonely if there were a central aetheryte for indvidual instancied housing and FCs only wards - especially if the centrale aetheryte is in FCs only wards-.

Currently, individual owned wards are like a ghost town. It could be an empty area as is for the Cristarium or Kugane Inn window landscape it would be the same : client side and not server ressources involved. Currently the ghost towns wards are a waste of server ressources and then a waste of real money. I can deal with the fact to not have house but to see we pay to waste servers ressources and real money... I can't get people accept that.

SE totally messed up the ward concept.

[tdb]

Apartments are instanced yes, but they have a limit of 400 rooms I think, so it's still limited and 400 is not enough still. A compromise had to be made somewhere. No one cares about apartments(they are dead on Spriggan), people want their own house.

Where'd you get 400 from? Each apartment building can have 90 apartments. There are two apartment buildings per ward (main division and subdivision) and 21 wards per area, so 3780 apartments per area. Multiply that by four residential areas and you get a grand total of 15120 apartments per server. The total number of housing plots is one third of that (5040 per server) though I don't remember the distribution of the different sizes off the top of my head.

[Dustytome]

Where'd you get 400 from? Each apartment building can have 90 apartments. There are two apartment buildings per ward (main division and subdivision) and 21 wards per area, so 3780 apartments per area. Multiply that by four residential areas and you get a grand total of 15120 apartments per server. The total number of housing plots is one third of that (5040 per server) though I don't remember the distribution of the different sizes off the top of my head.

They have a current limit of 90, but we've been told they can increase the limit up to 500-ish. They basically just took the private room system and untethered it from an fc, then altered the visible cap to 90 so as to distribute people through more wards. As we found out when Balmung completely filled their apartments (not currently an issue after additional wards and transfer incentives), they will not raise that cap based on an individual servers' needs.

[Vahlnir]

It sucks that this has happened to you, but it is what it is. They have rules in place whether I agree with them or not...which I don't. At the end of the day, you signed up for it, something came up and you were forced to take a break. It's unfortunate, but it is the system we have, though I do wish they would come up with something better.

[Khalithar]

Sorry you lost your house OP, truly I am.

The housing timer is a necessary function in the game, but it's in fact merely a symptom of the greater issue which is the lack of housing. A discussion that's happened plenty already and is outside the scope of this thread.

[Avidria]

Because SE designed a flawed system and is either unable or unwilling (or both) to actually overhaul the system to be anything different, so the band-aid solutions to extremely limited housing that we're stuck with are demolition timers and days of spam clicking placards for a chance to snatch a plot in the first place.

Sorry that happened, though. I'm hoping they come up with something better eventually.

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

Honestly, I don't get why they won't just copy paste it like 15 times on plots 1-50 for each setting if they did that, they wouldn't need the clock because there would be enough for everyone. Let's just remember In ffxi everyone got their house from level 1 and later could get another floor so I know they have enough space to do it considering they support directx 11 which very few things do.

[NessaWyvern]

I’ve lost two houses before, but I’ve managed to keep my current one since the end of HW. You’ll have to spend the next couple of weeks checking to see if one opens up if you want another house. Smalls pop up quite often, but it’s gonna be hard to nab a medium or large. Probably best to nab a small now, incase you can re-locate for Ishgard housing

[Sophie_Lo]

I've often wondered why they've never revamped the housing system into something more forgiving for players that are away for longer than 45 days, like instanced housing. SWTOR does it, and with little effort (its EAWare, for god's sake), homes are permanent until deleted by the player, and you can own multiple venues.

[Edax]

I've often wondered why they've never revamped the housing system into something more forgiving for players that are away for longer than 45 days, like instanced housing. SWTOR does it, and with little effort (its EAWare, for god's sake), homes are permanent until deleted by the player, and you can own multiple venues.

You have instanced housing in FFXIV. Like SWTOR, you can own an apartment that will forever be in your possession. No timers.