Empty FC Wards

[Jojoya]

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?

Answer to first question - SE didn't want to start the lottery with wards being split based on individual world needs so every world was hit with a worst case scenario split. They'll switch those some of the FC wards to personal in a few months if there are any left that haven't been filled by shell FCs.

Answer to second question - shell FCs been the way to get priority housing in the game since 4.2. You don't have to do it, but it's a lot harder to get a house if you don't. FCs will always have advantage due to the FC only content locked behind house ownership.

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.

Island Sanctuary is not housing.

LOL

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

You do know that on many worlds, half the FC plots had no bids at all don't you?

I counted up my ward yesterday as the initial chaos was going on. Out of 60 houses, 27 did not have any bids at all. Only 7 houses had a winning number of 0. My ward is half empty because there weren't enough potential buyers and other wards are in similar shape.

The ward OP displays is probably in a similar state.

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

YoshiP stressed that Island Sanctuary is non-competitive. Gardening is competitive content due to the marketboard.

We know it has some form of gathering but it's not going to be anything we currently have available. More likely that gathering will be used to gain resources to upgrade features on the Island or to support other Island specific content.

Far better to stop hoping that Island Sanctuary is some sort of housing feature solution. On the very remote chance if does turn out to be, you'll have a pleasant surprise.

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.

I don't recall them saying it would happen after the first round, just that they could make changes in the future if they feel there's a need.

It also wouldn't make sense to do it after the first round. A second round would be needed so those who competed against other FCs and lost got another chance.