Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
It would be nice if they would replicate the LotRO Neighborhood expansion system for wards in general. It would solve the problem neatly without some worlds ending up with empty wards while other worlds are bursting to the seams.

I don't think too much data is the problem when I compare it to other MMO housing. ESO, which also supports consoles so it's not a PS4/Xbox issue, allows each character to own every house location in the game and some of those locations allow up to 800 items to be placed the last I checked. ESO might not have the same number of active subscribers (B2P with subscription optional to get extras) but they do have a like or slightly higher number of total active players from the estimates I see (estimated to be around a million logging in daily).

I had 11 active Dimensions at the same time in RIFT (meaning anyone could go visit them same day even if I wasn't online, it was also possible to have inactive Dimension keys not in use) ranging from 400 to 2000 items placed. I was pretty much a housing noob compared to the serious Dimension addicts who had far more active Dimensions at max item limits than I did. There was never a point (at least while I was playing) where Trion told players "you can't get more Dimensions because we're running out of memory".

The solutions are out there. SE needs to get on them.
A lot of it depends on how SE implemented the wards... if the contents of all items placed within all houses within a ward are low, then it's possible to dynamically load (and unload) the wards. However, if you have a lot of data that needs to be shown for each house, then you've got to plan on the wards always being in memory. There's a threshold where you can literally exceed some of the internal computer bus bandwidth (like SATA or NVME bus bandwidth for example) if you have too much data that needs to be pushed to memory so it can be used to create the ward in memory and shared with the player(s). That's why I'm hesitant to push the idea as a great solution for FFXIV... I don't know enough of the technical side of things to know if it's even a good idea technically speaking.

Yes, it would be amazing feature to have added to FFXIV, but I don't want it added at the expense of making everyone else's lives garbage because it introduced a lot of lag.