Quote Originally Posted by Holy_Shenanigans View Post
I'm happy they are adding wards. And it will help, like you said. But those houses will be bought up entirely within a week. So they should also re-enable housing demolition and never disable it again. TBH, fully instanced housing is what it should have been all along.
Yea and the fact that they're bought up so quickly shows that we need more wards because the amount we have cannot meet the demand of a large population.

You can't very noticeably decrease the demand with demolition because it does not increase the amount of houses in the game. In addition to this most players hold on to their houses for years. Relying on demolition means sitting around camping aetherytes hoping someone left the server, got bored of the game, had unfortunate life circumstances or got banned.

Furthermore this game has gotten more popular with time so it only makes sense to add more wards with time as well.

I am not saying demolition is useless, because it's not. I got my own house because of demolition. But the fact is adding more wards improves availability issues far more than demolition ever could.

And before anyone says to me "but that's the same with grandfathering and you are against it!" I do agree that it is the same for grandfathering. Adding more houses is a far better solution for all than hoping someone will lose their house. Hell, it's why I want instanced housing above all other solutions! Because it would mean houses for everyone, and not only for those lucky enough to snag something before someone or after someone lost their house.