Why do FCs get 75% of the wards?

[Stormpeaks]

why 10k? A server doesn't have so many active players and you can bet for a FC house OR a personal house.

In my opinion, if there are more than 500 players for personal house x server (tomorrow for the first lottery) is strange.
the second lottery will be different, but if you bid for a small it's almost guaranteed you win.

6.1 will bring a lot of players back. And yes there will be a lot of people entering lottery for houses, and this adds a total of 300 houses for a massive amount of people who want one, which is absolutely ridiculous.

[xenahawk]

So let me get this straight, any joe schmoe (like me lol) can make a new fc and they're good to go in this 75%? This doesn't sound too bad tbh unless I'm missing something.

No because there are some prerequisites for fc's to buy a house some having to do with length of time in an fc so anyone who already basically has a "bogus" fc will be able to. If someone tries to make a new fc now they will have to wait. But again thats sort of promoting bad behavior.

[Lily_Skye]

this change only encourages rmt reselling

SE please...

[grinkdaboy]

what in the love of all that is good were they thinking?

it just encourages people to make shell FCs

[Gember]

what in the love of all that is good were they thinking?

it just encourages people to make shell FCs

≪Entry Requirements≫

Characters who fulfill the requirements below are eligible to submit one lottery entry per lottery period.

Entering as a Private Buyer:
1. You must have at least one class at level 50.
2. You must hold the rank of second lieutenant or above in one of the Grand Companies.

Entering as a Free Company Representative:
1. Your free company must be rank 6 or above.
2. Your free company must have four or more members.
3. You must be authorized by your free company to purchase and relinquish land.
4. You must have been a member of your free company for 30 days or longer.(*)
* This is a new requirement introduced in Patch 6.1, in order to preserve the integrity of the lottery system.

There is some barrier to entry here, so we'll see how many gets pumped out.

[TaleraRistain]

Also? What happens to those of us in wards now designated as FC housing, do we get ejected from our private homes?

This is a good question. I've had my personal medium since before prices were equalized across all servers and I got it for 8mil because my server was incredibly small. I don't want to lose that just because it gets flagged as an FC ward. They could try to move us to the new wards but what happens if there are more personal houses at my plot number than those available in private wards? Hopefully they are going to grandfather us in and have this just be something that takes effect on a new purchase.

The number of FC wards does seem excessive, though, and does seem like it will contribute to the problem of shell FCs. Not every small FC is a shell FC, though, and it's disappointing to see the opinions on this thread that we don't deserve what we've worked for just because we're small now. Mine started a lot larger than just myself and a couple others and then people left.

[Stormpeaks]

This is what people wanted, everyone was all up in arms, blaming bots for the terrible system, saying it was their fault, that 6.1 was going to save housing.

Now this is what people get, they get the bot situation, but x100.

Also this excuse of "FC houses hold more people so its fair there's a majority of them" is absolutely baseless, 80% of fc houses are empty, inside and out, used for submarines and abandoned left to rot outside of that purpose, its ridiculous that some people think this will encourage interactions between fcs when those fcs are dummy fcs to begin with, just made for housing for a single person as personal FC.

[Yodada]

This is what people wanted, everyone was all up in arms, blaming bots for the terrible system, saying it was their fault, that 6.1 was going to save housing.

Now this is what people get, they get the bot situation, but x100.

Also this excuse of "FC houses hold more people so its fair there's a majority of them" is absolutely baseless, 80% of fc houses are empty, inside and out, used for submarines and abandoned left to rot outside of that purpose, its ridiculous that some people think this will encourage interactions between fcs when those fcs are dummy fcs to begin with, just made for housing for a single person as personal FC.

Lets see as of per March 2022 the Light Data Center had
10.286 FC Houses
24.274 Personal Houses
FCs in Total 39.629

For Zodiark
1678 FC Houses
4082 Personal
total of 6916 FCs.

For those FCs which have a House on the Light Data Center a total of 1622 FCs are having less or equal to 3 Members.
On Zodiark there are only 275 FCs with less then or 3 Members.

Sry I call your "but i can see it with my own eyes" 80% nonsense. Its just a emotional inflated number which bares any logic.

[Stormpeaks]

Lets see as of per March 2022 the Light Data Center had
10.286 FC Houses
24.274 Personal Houses
FCs in Total 39.629

For Zodiark
1678 FC Houses
4082 Personal
total of 6916 FCs.

For those FCs which have a House on the Light Data Center a total of 1622 FCs are having less or equal to 3 Members.
On Zodiark there are only 275 FCs with less then or 3 Members.

Sry I call your "but i can see it with my own eyes" 80% nonsense. Its just a emotional inflated number which bares any logic.

You are free to go take a look on your own then when the servers come up, take a look at the top tier plots for smalls, and at all mediums and larges.

[Yodada]

You are free to go take a look on your own then when the servers come up, take a look at the top tier plots for smalls, and at all mediums and larges.

Give me the adresses you want me to look up and I do it. A bunch of a few outliers doesnt make your 80 % of all FCs are abonded more true.