Another housing idea - FC instanced housing

[Kniteroad]

I'm sure this has been suggested a million times but in the off chance it hasn't, what if instanced housing was created for FCs only. The whole "neighborhood" idea is nice but i feel like it's not needed when you have an established community like an FC. The size of the house could correspond either to the size of the FC or the FC could spend gil and/or other resources to make it larger over time. The latter also being good for smaller FCs who want a large plot with apartments for their members. This could also sort of fix the shell FC issue as if you want to create a shell FC to create you're own instanced house it's not effecting the community at all. The FCs that already have a house would be given (X) amount of time to relinquish their plot for a full refund (as well as members who purchased a room) so they could create their new instanced house.

I'm sure there will be server issues to deal with but it sounds like they might have to expand their server capabilities anyway if they are going to tackle the housing issue as a whole. Plus they might be half way there with the new island sanctuaries. This would also keep Yoshi's original concept of a neighborhood as all current housing would be personal plots. I would think this would free up a significant amount of plots in the short term while SE expands their capability to create more wards or whatever their plan is to increase supply long term.

[MilkieTea]

I've actually never heard of this specific idea! I'm sure you'd be able to get better feedback in the Fix Housing Megathread

[Kniteroad]

added, thank you!

[Tlamila]

I think, if anything, FC houses are the ones who use the uninstanced system the most.
Personal housing is mostly used to hang inside, or just decorate, visit, while FC houses are places the FC members meet each other outside of, in between duties. People pretty much never go inside, if not to use npc or something, they mostly hang out in the garden or outside the gates. Them being instanced would make them completely unusable.

Maybe they could, as addition instead of removing the current way, make apartments purchasable as fc houses, so that small/personal FCs that mostly want services can get those.

[Kniteroad]

that's a fair point but I'd hope that SE would make it so that you can still hang out in this instanced area and join/wait in PF, dungeons, dailies, etc. That would be the ideal but they would probably have to fiddle with the system/code in some way to make it work. I'm sure it won't be easy but I got the idea from re-playing the .hack GU series where large guilds got an entire server in the game to customize which I thought was such a cool concept!