Getting Housing is a Problem

[alpacaurbags]

This statement is a lot clearer now that you've said what you mean, rather than using hyperbole and saying 'no houses were open' when a few hundred were.

Yes, the houses not on timers all sold out by 6:30-7am eastern. If you got on at 8, you were less motivated than the ~400 or so first-time-buyers that did get to skip their camp. You were still free to claim the remaining ~300 houses that were on timers any time between 4pm eastern on patch day and 4am on 10/14.

Apologies if it was unclear. No, I have not used the forums previously but figured this was the place to provide feedback to Square about this issue.

There were far less than 300 houses left, for the record. According to my FC mate I checked with about this, there were a handful and they were all heavily camped.

At any rate, speaks to the issue again, which is all I'm trying to express here. I don't have a solution to the problem. I think a lack of a timer and a lottery system all present their own unique problems as well. At any rate, I would never claim to know more than Square about the ins and outs and pros and cons of such a system. I'm sure they've thought through many options, but I hope they listen to feedback on some of the problems.

I do stand firm, however, that FCs should have priority housing to benefit the many rather than the few.

[Catstab]

At any rate, speaks to the issue again, which is all I'm trying to express here.

I do stand firm, however, that FCs should have priority housing to benefit the many rather than the few.

Yeah, housing is for sure in shorter supply than we would prefer as players. Some say this is by design, but SE has also expressed that they want to open more wards, but this is all that current servers would allow.

FCs were prioritized in last year's housing expansion. SE made the decision this time to allow first-time personal buyers to share in the relief, since auto-demo stoppage has affected everyone. It's tough to say if they will continue with that moving forward or not.