Empty FC Wards

[Battler-Ushiromiya]

Image says it all, why are personal houses relegated to second class when all of these weren't even bid on? Am I going to have to make my own FC with dummy members just to get a house?

[EaMett]

Going to go out on a limb and say that sanctuary islands are going to cover personal housing needs. So they made wards mostly FC locked.

[Big_Bap]

I'll give you an answer that is specifically tailored to Malboro so the point might get across more easily.

Malboro - November 2021

Free Company houses: 1,709
Personal houses: 4,051

Characters that had access to Free Company housing: 46,288
The theoretical maximum amount of characters that had access to personal housing: 16,204


While the number of characters that had access to Free Company housing cannot be disputed due to being taken directly from The Lodestone, the number of characters who had access to personal housing through ownership and tenancy is much lower than what's written above.

[Amenara]

It was pretty disheartening to realize that I can almost count the number of claimed houses in my FC's new ward on one hand after the lottery finished. I am almost positive not a single small house was bid on in the ward.

Going to go out on a limb and say that sanctuary islands are going to cover personal housing needs. So they made wards mostly FC locked.

Pretty sure Yoshi P has said to lower expectations from Island Sanctuary, so I am not gonna bank on it being anything more than just another mini game thing to do for a little bit or when you are bored.

[Sindele]

Because they want as many FCs as possible to be housed before opening it up to personals, who will take every last bit of availability that remains. They've said multiple times that they can adjust the designations of wards at-will. It is very clear what they are doing.

[ssunny2008]

LOL

You guys do know, that hundreds, even thousands of plots got blocked thanks to a game-breaking bug?!

[EaMett]

It was pretty disheartening to realize that I can almost count the number of claimed houses in my FC's new ward on one hand after the lottery finished. I am almost positive not a single small house was bid on in the ward.



Pretty sure Yoshi P has said to lower expectations from Island Sanctuary, so I am not gonna bank on it being anything more than just another mini game thing to do for a little bit or when you are bored.

Fair. It might allow for gardening though. Which would make apartments fine.

[Greyhawk]

Image says it all, why are personal houses relegated to second class when all of these weren't even bid on? Am I going to have to make my own FC with dummy members just to get a house?

The image says nothing. The 0-bug affected FCs more than anything. Plots in all the wards on my server were bid on, and they look just like this, because we all lost to bid 0. Please don't use a game-breaking bug to justify your lack of knowledge about what happened.

[SuperSxyNerd]

I really wish you guys would watch the live letters or read before making these posts. They clearly stated the plan in the simplest of terms. Majority FC houses FIRST over personals. The reasons why FC houses get the primary share of housing should be beyond obvious as a FC house servers multiple people and multiple purposes. A personal is just that person and even though you can add people to it outside of gardening and such it really servers no functional purpose.

They said once the first round was done they would evaluate the data on a per world basis, based off demand/need and readjust the numbers and wards accordingly. Obviously if they see like 75% of the wards are for FC and only 1-2 wards are claimed or some such non sense they will open up more for personal use. But FC come first as they should.

[BellBixbite]

Image says it all, why are personal houses relegated to second class when all of these weren't even bid on? Am I going to have to make my own FC with dummy members just to get a house?

FCs are first going to go war large and mediums over smalls. If they lost then they would do their backups. I'm not saying some FCs dont want smalls but given the lottery system and lot availability why wouldn't they go for a larger plot forst with the odds being fair. It just makes sense before trying for a small