Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
This is the second time for Balmung. SE failed to do anything about it the first time it happened. It would be nice if they would follow through this time.
Since SE updated house pricing (many, many years ago) all the servers now have the same configuration. From a technical viewpoint it's much easier to manage 68 identical servers/worlds that all use the same resources/setup the same way instead of having different configurations on different worlds. Having multiple configurations would mean much more testing is needed before they can roll out any update.

Unfortunately in this case it also means even though Balmung has run out of apartments, SE will be reluctant to increase the total apartments as the other 67 worlds simply don't have this problem. Increasing all their apartments is going to be a huge waste of resources. I don't know how full the apartments are on other worlds, but since I've never seen a non-Balmung complaint about apartments, it stands to reason they still have sufficient amounts left.

I do wonder how many of the Balmung apartments are by characters who don't play any more, but enabling apartment demolition would probably cause a lot of complaints as everyone is expecting the apartment to stay forever and 67 other worlds would be penalised just for Balmung so that's probably not something they want to do either.

Sorry this message isn't particularly helpful, but I just wanted to try and explain why they haven't increased the apartments (and until another world runs out, they probably won't).