Would a raffle system be that hard?

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I’m also not sure that I’m jiving with the core philosophy here. I don't think you need a requirement to get a house. Housing should be available to everyone, so instead of restricting players from getting a house I think they should just focus on making housing more available. The majority of the problems with HOW to get a house will absolutely wither in the face of adequate supply.

How many times do I need to repeat this? I'm making these suggestions on the assumption that housing quantity can't be significantly increased. Maybe I should put it in my every post, bolded, so no one can possibly miss it?

I've said multiple times that I consider instanced or otherwise "infinite" housing supply to be the superior solution. But if housing is going to stay limited, and players don't want to compete against everyone else for houses, then some kind of "qualification" is necessary.

We know it's not hard to implement. House interiors and apartments are already instanced. The only hard thing would be getting weather to work if they intended to add gardening to instanced housing areas (why we can't intercross inside a house or apartment - weather doesn't exist in them).

Their vision of active neighborhoods was probably the obstacle but I don't think they've even mentioned that since the disaster that was Shirogane's opening. Hopefully they've given up on the idea and moved onto creating a system that serves all the players instead of a lucky few.

Perhaps I worded myself poorly there. I know it's not technically difficult to implement instanced houses. Other games do it. Private instances already exist in FFXIV too, and I bet they could implement indoor garden patches and chocobo stables by just copying the items and changing their category.

But player housing has existed in this game for what, six years? Seven? And I think the supply issues have existed almost as long. So something is in the way of getting instanced housing. I have no idea what it is, but if there were no obstacles we would have it already.

We'll know when Ishgard housing gets released, I guess.

If Ishgard is not going to be an enhanced version of instanced housing removing the need for a new purchase system, that would likely be the time they would implement one (if they're going to). I don't see it happening "while we wait".

The Firmament looks very much like a standard housing ward, with 30 plots and an apartment building. Maybe they will add bigger apartments or something, but I don't really see how the houses would be instanced with this setup.