Quote Originally Posted by Huntalias View Post
Replying to Frizze.

What is the issue with housing, back to the reply from Sauteed? And preferred worlds apparently also give 1,000,000 gil first time a character reaches level 30? How hard is it to get gil? I get the Data Center/World visits, though it's limited to what you can do in other worlds. I am also aware of world/data center transfers if I don't enjoy my choice, so I guess I could use the preferred world for exp, then transfer 90 later if it doesn't work out. That is certainly a possibility I had considered.
So lets start with housing. Currently there are 2 types of housing in the game. You have apartments/FC rooms, and you have ward houses. Apartments(same goes for FC rooms) have practically unlimited availability. This is because they are instanced and you access them from another building(either your FCs house, or the apartment building you picked). These are the smallest(least physical space and least number of items that can be placed) and cheapest option, and only have an indoor space for decorating. Ward houses are bigger(both space and item limits), come in multiple sizes, cost significantly more, and are limited to a specific number per server(of which, most servers are currently sold out). Apartments are forever, if you dont use a ward house it can get demolished and put back up for sale. So people complaining about housing are usually complaining that there arent enough ward houses available for the people who want them, though you also see a few who want to be able to place more items or have more space to work with. In addition to houses being demolished, they do add more wards from time to time so houses do become available. But its also true that there are like twice as many players on an average north american server as there are housing plots.

None of that is to say that you cant get a house. The next batch of new wards will show up in probly mid october, and houses do become available outside of a new batch. I just advice most new players to get an apartment first. You can still do almost everything a house can do, you dont need to worry about losing it, you dont need to deal with competition, and you save a lot of money. As for money, im not sure if that million gil thing is still an active thing or not. It could be. Making money isnt hard(it gets easier and easier the higher level you are), it just takes a strategy. That strategy could be crafting and/or gathering, it could be selling quest rewards, it could be treasure hunting, it could be selling rare dropped materials, hell - you could make your fortune leveling up bard until you unlock instruments and then playing music in the town square for tips. There really are a ton of different ways to make money. For instance, i recently starting playing with a bit of side content(Eureka - requires level 70 and being a certain ways into the story). I decided when i started i was willing to spend a couple million to make it easier to get up to speed and meet my goals there. I spent about a mil. Then i got a lucky drop from a fight, and now i have a belt that i can sell for 8 mil(if i dont decide to just use it). Ive also found along the way that there are a ton of other money making spots inside. So ive paid back my mil invested and im making a profit instead.

Regardless of what you choose, welcome to the game and best of luck!