Apartments need Rent

[Almagnus1]

They asked for a source, and it was provided with a post that links DIRECTLY to the source. You're being pretty disingenuous here.

If you were being intellectually honest with the post, you would have posted the entire thing, rather than cutting out key parts that provided historical and textual context for the parts you quoted.

Not all of them are being disingenuous. Most weren't around back when it was an issue to know what it was like. They only know what things are like now.\

That's why someone chopping up a four year old post (especially the first post in a thread) is a problem (original post and thread title follows).

Looking back at it years later, while I have been advocating for instanced housing (which is what one of the things mentioned in that post definitely is) two of the other things were aimed solely at addressing the shell FC housing situation and also what we now call grandfathered in personal housing, which is a position I have held since that time and honestly shouldn't be surprising to anyone here.

The problem, though, comes with the timer as that's not a good solution to the problem, and all it really has done is exchange one source of pain and misery for another. However, until there is a mechanism in place to either allow someone to throw gil at the problem (like an auction where minimum bid is 5% of the current bid and it runs for 4 hours minimum will will continue past the duration until 5 minutes has elapsed since the last bid) or we let RNG decide the house own (through a raffle). At this point, I honestly don't care which way it goes as both have their drawbacks. I don't know if either is truly a better solution to replace the timer, but I don't see a way out of this aside from taking some risks and just picking on and going with it. All of this can be summed up as "We have a werewolf to kill, but we don't have silver bullets, we only have lead bullets. This is not going to be pretty"

Original post with title:

Thread title:
New Wards Alone Aren't Going to Solve the Housing Issue

Post date:
10-12-2017 05:11 PM CST

While I appreciate new wards for all the housing districts coming in 4.2, and this is very much a step in the right direction, this is only going to be a short term solution at best as the unaddressed issue with housing (being land barons) is going to cause the exact same issue we saw with Shirogane to appear AGAIN.

SE needs to take action to kill FFXIVs house flipping market, or they will never be able to add enough wards because all the land barons will do is further increase their holdings while the rest of us get screwed.

That's why they need to restrict personal houses to one per server.

That's why appartments need access to yard space (so we have true instanced housing).

That's why there needs to be a random, invisibile, timer that lasts between 1 to 24 hours when house is released so the risk involved with getting your house from a house flipper is so great, that many will not want to do just that.

That's also why the alt shell FCs intended solely to take up housing slots need to be dealt with.

We need ALL of these things with the additional wards in order to fix this issue, as any of these fixes by themselves isn't going to resolve the issue.