FC Wards split is legitimately awful

[ElenaRedoran]

I don't see the problem. FC houses are clearly way more in demand and the housing districts were always meant to be for FCs rather than 1 person owning a house they'll never use anyways. The amount of houses I see never used, with nobody around them is absolutely insane.

Besides, if you really wanted a house, you would have got one way before the lottery system was added. Your odds are much, MUCH lower now even if it was all private districts rather than FC.

[Stormpeaks]

I don't see the problem. FC houses are clearly way more in demand and the housing districts were always meant to be for FCs rather than 1 person owning a house they'll never use anyways. The amount of houses I see never used, with nobody around them is absolutely insane.

Besides, if you really wanted a house, you would have got one way before the lottery system was added. Your odds are much, MUCH lower now even if it was all private districts rather than FC.

Evidence please.

[ElenaRedoran]

Evidence please.

Do you even play the game? I've seen tons and tons of even small FCs that just want a house for their roleplaying venues or whatever else they'll come up with. It's certainly a lot more useful than a dead private house that can't even use submarines

[Stormpeaks]

Do you even play the game? I've seen tons and tons of even small FCs that just want a house for their roleplaying venues or whatever else they'll come up with. It's certainly a lot more useful than a dead private house that can't even use submarines

And I've seen tons and tons of people that want personal houses too, what is your point ?

Also, housing is not all about submarines you know, know something called FUN ?

[dspguy]

I understand the frustration by the OP and others. Bigger picture... if you want access to a house, join an FC. By the end of this, most (not all) FCs will have a house.

If your own personal house is a deal breaker, play another game. So far, it doesn't seem personal housing is a deal breaker, hence why SE continues down the path they are going down. If the bottom line gets hurt by the lack of personal housing, money talks. They'd go and do something about it.

Keep in mind that low supply housing is a huge money maker for SE. 70 servers. About 7200 plots per server results in roughly 500,000 plots across all servers. While there are some players with multiple houses on one account, for the most part, each homeowner equates to a guaranteed sub. Every month. No one wants to risk losing their house. 500,000 x $15/mo x 12 months = $90M/year income just in subs due to housing. If the finances continue working out, then I expect house supply will remain low.

[andrealfus]

a single room in an fc house is not a good replacement for a personal house that you're fully in control of, especially if your fc leadership arbitrarily decides that there's too many members and decides to kick out everyone who isn't a part of their personal clique without so much as a warning, causing you to lose 300k worth of gil and access to that little extra bit of housing too

not that that's ever happened to me /s

[Reinha]

a single room in an fc house is not a good replacement for a personal house that you're fully in control of, especially if your fc leadership arbitrarily decides that there's too many members and decides to kick out everyone who isn't a part of their personal clique without so much as a warning, causing you to lose 300k worth of gil and access to that little extra bit of housing too

not that that's ever happened to me /s

And to my knowledge the opposite is still possible and hasn't been patched. The fc leader can decide to lock the house from everyone including fc members, which prevents them from vacating their rooms and leaving the fc.

[Toutatis]

There’s also some one person fcs that have recruited a few members just trick the system and be able to bid... now they are back at one member. The 4 members initial requirement is way too low. They should also require a certain level of FC points during a period of time.

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO you can thank all the shell FC's out there with 1-2 ppl in them for the ward split we are seeing. Many if not most of them have been screaming that they "need" a FC house because they want to use voyages and company workshop for their own personal profit and created their shell FC because those features aren't available to a private home. The number of these also inflated the count of FCs on each world making it look like there was a higher need for FC housing.