Only 6 Personal Wards

[Basteala]

I'm not entirely sure it'll remain with this split, to be honest.

There's a few that share that sentiment. The concern I have is how quickly FC shenanigans can proliferate before the next observation period.

[Nulstat]

There's a few that share that sentiment. The concern I have is how quickly FC shenanigans can proliferate before the next observation period.

Yeah. I'm more patient with a lot of the changes because, for better or worse, there have been changes over the course of my playing the game. It'll be interesting to see if GMs are being dispatched to check the validity of plots being purchased, but that's more a curiosity than anything - I know that there were a few instances on Balmung where we had houses released because they were blatant bots/resales.

I'm in the position where I can't see us managing to nab a large simply because there's just not enough. If they only allowed relocations for the current for the first round, it'd be easier to tell... but that would cause problems for all the folks who wanted Ishgard housing. I'm not in that group, but I am in the group that has to hope that others do manage to move, and if they don't then I'm SoL. There's just nothing that I can do, except maybe move into a different medium, but ours is pretty nice and I'm not really keen on a side-grade when we've been saving for the upgrade.

The only thing I probably would have personally changed (aside the addition of another subward of just mediums and larges), is that all new homeowners be required to start with a small. There's more available, they're basically what most folks who are going into housing need for pretty much anything (aside additional garden plots, and character cap space, there's no real difference between them on a mechanics standpoint), and it would allow a better chance for folks who have been trying to upgrade to do so, thus freeing up more spots.

Unfortunately, my FC is an event FC and we are beginning to have character cap issues - so our option is a large.

All that said, I don't think this is going to go as horribly as folks think, but we'll see!

[Fenril7]

Not going to spell it out, but the honest days of trying to get a house are over for a few people. All this did was push some people over too buying a house RMT.

[Shibi]

What I want to know is how the Japanese player base feels about this?

Their biggest issue goes like this....

They are getting a new Virtual Data Centre in a short time. A number of FCs decided to transfer from old worlds onto worlds that are going to be moved into the new Virtual Data Centre to take advantage of new housing in Emperyum.

There were two concerns they raised: one was that they wouldn't have 30 days as Master to be able to buy - resulting in the message recently that if you are in that situation to contact the GMs to have your status manually adjusted so you could buy. The other concern being there wouldn't be enough housing for them to get their new FC house in Emperyum... which is the only reason they are moving now in advance of the reorganisation.

One can assume/guess/prosit/imagine/whatever that this split is to help those people settle a little easier.

After the next patch the numbers will be adjusted.