Multiple Houses

[Frizze]

Taking away grandfathered houses does not help fix the problem. There will probably never be enough ward housing until this game dies out some time in the future which may be sooner than some expect with new mmos around the corner that look to be taking notes from current mmo failings. Making a few new worlds on a data center might help considerably and making them where no houses are grandfathered in from the onset. Make them not able to be world visited for the first month they are introduced imo. Allow transfers maybe after 1 week. That will probably be the best thing we could see for people genuinely wanting a straight shot at a house outside of the dev's just giving every player a house straight up for free of any size and style the player wants. Anyhow I do hope a good solution arrives at some point like most others do but it's not a perfect world and this is not a perfect game. So the perfect solution is madness to expect.

If they added 3 new servers, one each to the Aether Crystal and Primal data centers, it would actually do a lot to solve the housing issues on the NA side. You over complicate the solution though. The only people with grandfathered houses bought them more then 2 years ago. They dont get to keep them if they change servers because no one keeps housing when they server swap. So just being a new server eliminates that "concern". World visiting is irrelevant to housing, because you can only buy a house on your home server. If you instead intended that to prevent gil transfers, it takes far less time to make the money to buy a house then some people seem to think. They could open a window for free transfers(they did this when they added new worlds to the EU centers a couple years back), and then just set the servers as preferred until they reached the desired player counts. Most people still wouldnt move, because housing isnt as important as they say it is. Some people would, and they would have free reign to snap up whichever house they want for their personal or FC. And there would still be houses available months from now, because there are still houses open on the newest EU servers too.

[Jojoya]

If they added 3 new servers, one each to the Aether Crystal and Primal data centers, it would actually do a lot to solve the housing issues on the NA side.

Anything that adds more house plots is an improvement at this point, but I don't think one new server per data center would be enough to solve the problem. That's still only 5760 more houses per data center when I've seen unofficial census information putting the player populations on NA worlds between 12,000 and 24,000.

If we go conservative based on those numbers and say average per world is 16,000, that's 128,000 players per NA data center. Currently there are 46,080 houses per data center. Adding one more server increases that to 51,840. Remove the ability of FCs to own houses and limit houses to one per account period (not per server), and that's still only 40% of players able to get a house. Allow FCs to own houses and the number gets reduced further. Assuming they would continue to hold 30% of houses as others claim they do right now means only 28% of players would be able to get a house.

We really need a new way of adding house plots to the game that doesn't rely on the ward system.