Instanced Wards

[Almagnus1]

They do not map the same. Take Larges as an example:

Shiro - 7/17, 16/46, 30/60
Lavender Beds - 3/33, 6/36, 28/58
Goblet - 5/35, 15/35, 30/60
Mist - 2/32, 5/35, 15/45

My Mist 60 is a medium. If I were to be automatically moved to Shiro or Goblet 60, I'd be placed in a large (which I do not want - I want a medium). It would at least be a medium still in Lavender Beds.

But then take my FC's large (LB 33). In every other district, that plot number is a small.

Then you still have the issue of even moving small to small is not the same. Where someone might have a small with a good view now, the same number in a different district might be staring into a wall.

May be better to just have the FC do a non-refundable delete/recreate, or give a small window (like a day or two) for a 100% refund if they picked a ward they don't like. If someone's going to be dropping that much gil, making changes painful will force them to think through the decision.

The current system using wards would be better than yours.

Why not have both? If an FC wants to fight for a house, they can do so. But if they can fundraise the half billion (or more) gil it takes to buy the ward, let them.

Who's complaining they can't get a FC room now? No one. They get an apartment instead.

Unless they're on Balmung...

And see Awha's response.

I easily could have done it myself when my alt was the only active member of her FC for 5 months and ended up leader through the auto-dethrone. I could have kicked everyone out and had a second house all to myself instead of maintaining the FC until people started returning and eventually handing leadership to a friend who wanted to be running a FC.

There are other players who have come to the forums in a similar position "I'm now leader of a FC with a house because everyone else quit playing, is it okay for me to kick everyone so I can keep the house?"

Very few FCs are more than loose social groups that fall apart as members have their interest change and leave the FC or quit the game. The wrong person getting leader through auto-dethrone or other means can destroy it.

But tbh, you're really just highlight flaws in the FC system. You're also highlight why there needs to be criteria which, when met, the FC either releases the house or just gets deleted outright (which releases the house).

That said, both of these cases are highlight why it may be necessary for the FC leader to be able to take the FC house as their own, so if you have someone that's got a dead FC, but doesn't have a personal house, they can claim the house as their own and any work decorating the house isn't lost - similar to how someone stuck in a dead FC may want to raid the storage and FC chest and claim it as their own.