Thread: Housing Lottery 6.1 and beyond.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Actual instanced housing would require a duty queue and transfer to the instance servers. This would also mean you wouldn't be able to queue anything else while in your house, or access retainers.
It would kinda defeat the whole point..

... what? This is complete and utter nonsense.

We already have a form of instanced housing in Apartments, which you can queue from. Inn Rooms, The Rising Stones, the side room in Sharlayan and the Grand Company Barracks are all instanced "zones" that is readily available to every single person without issue. Even at full server capacity like we've seen with Endwalker, none of these areas even remotely struggled to load. So the technically not only exists is readily being utilized.

The whole point of instanced housing is it alleviates server space as these zones only load when players are actively present inside them whereas the current Wards are constantly maintained regardless. There's a reason pretty much every other MMO opted for instanced housing. It's widely superior in terms of practical use of space. The only disadvantage for better functionality and infinite housing is you lose the neighbour feel Wards provide. Which is why a lot of people have suggested they do both. Or why so many hoped for Island Sanctuary to fill that void.

Why they haven't gone for instanced house boils down to the sunken cost fallacy. The dev team has stubbornly put so many resources into one band-aid fix after another, they don't want to develop a whole new system. Not to mention, for a business perspective, the current system ensures players with a house will keep their sub active indefinitely as they know their odds of getting another are virtually none.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

If they were on instance servers, they would require a duty queue.

Sorry, your ideas are wrong.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Once again, none of those things are actual instancesn just tiny zones hosted on the world servers.
This makes them finite.

When players ask for "instanced housing" what they're asking for is "infinite housing", that requires hosting on the instance servers, which would require a duty queue.

That's literally the definition of an instance, my dude. Go to Radz-At-Han or some other populated field/world zone right now and type /instance. Ever wondered why the command is called that?

I don't know how you're getting the idea the duty instance servers can't fill up either. They absolutely can and have in the past in periods of extreme traffic, notable example being Stormblood and Raubahn EX. Even now it can happen occasionally, you just get a prompt that you're being queued into a solo instance and will start when there is space. Very similar to the way housing instances work, just without the queueing in that case.

In short, you're creating a very specific, incorrect definition of "instance" which doesn't hold any water.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Once again, none of those things are actual instancesn just tiny zones hosted on the world servers.
This makes them finite.

When players ask for "instanced housing" what they're asking for is "infinite housing", that requires hosting on the instance servers, which would require a duty queue.

... do you have any actual knowledge of server structure and how instances work? Games like Black Desert already have instanced housing and they don't require any sort of queue. What you're describing simply isn't how instanced housing would work in this game or any other. It'd be functional identical to Apartments, which the dev team has outright said are infinite. Duty queues are for content with backend systems such as raids or stuff like playing as the Scions. They essentially have to load a series of models, scrips and etc. all of which have to work in a specific sequence. None of this is true for housing. Hence why Apartments work seamlessly. At most, you may run into congestion issues like we see how, especially if housing remained on a low priority server but that's about it.

Bluntly stated, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

This is a cost related problem not a technical one.

Originally Posted by Seraphor

Ironic when you're the one ignorant to how the servers work.
Everything I've said is factual.

Citation needed.