Nope you didn't add enough plots SE...

[saxman09]

Put instanced housing, like an actual physical house plot in an instanced location where owners can edit the way thier house looks and place decorations etc. and invite friends or FC members. This will literally fix all current problems and cut future server bloat exponentially. If you can do it with apartments you can do it with houses.

[Katie_Kitty]

People like having ward communities. I know I do. I don't wanna see them go away.

[Jojoya]

People like having ward communities. I know I do. I don't wanna see them go away.

Nothing says they have to go away. The current wards could be retained for those who like the wards, are willing to compete for plots and can accept the risk of demolition.

Instanced house plots would be for those who want more than an apartment/FC room and don't really care whether a neighbor can see their house.

Right now if you picked up my personal house and stuck it in an instance with a mock backdrop displaying a fake ward, I wouldn't know the difference. I see maybe one or two other players a month in the ward at most. Things are busier around our FC house but then we're a moderately active FC and member friends stop by fairly often. Instanced housing wouldn't prevent that from continuing to happen. MB convenience wouldn't even have to be lost with instanced housing if a ward layout was used for a common area with just the house plots being instanced.

[SoleilAlphi]

given that 99% of wards are ghost towns with nothing to actually lose, yes to instanced housing. Not that it really matters if we want instances or wards anyway since I doubt SE will do anything at all but... hey, it's just my own opinion.

[Almagnus1]

SE needs to do the following:

• Add instanced housing
• Add more wards
• Give all characters on a server teleports to all houses owned by all the characters on the same account on that server
• Reinstate the restrictions at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/ and never disable them
• Change the above restrictions on FC houses to not check housing ownership on the account (because that doesn't make sense), instead check if the FC has four active subscriptions (as four signatures are needed to create the FC).
• Use a countdown/count up timer for the FC house where it releases the house if the timer reaches zero, the timer only counts down if the number of active subscriptions is less then four, and counts up if there are at least four active subscriptions if the timer was in count down mode until it's at max duration.
• Force the release of the grandfathered in houses over a series of patches

SE does all of the above and that will end this problem, until then, we'll continue to have people on this forum tell others to just git gud at house buying when others state flaws within this system (as seen in this thread).

[ramsesh]

At least I'm trying to solve the problem, rather than QQ about it.

That timer also shuts down using housing for RMT, and anything that fights RMT is needed to keep an MMO's economy stable long term.

This reply is so full of crap that it needs Pull-Ups.

[Arielen]

At least I'm trying to solve the problem, rather than QQ about it.

That timer also shuts down using housing for RMT, and anything that fights RMT is needed to keep an MMO's economy stable long term.

RMT housing was never really a thing. I don't understand why everyone is so rabidly against it in the first place, mind you. Back during Stormblood, I bought a Shiro beachfront small on Mateus for 5mil. Sure I had to spend an extra almost 4mil for placard cost too. But do you know how much buying a small costs nowadays? 20-40mil. If housing resale has any relationship with RMT (it doesn't), you didn't solve any problem: you made it worse by several magnitudes.