We need better communication on Housing

[BellBixbite]

FC venues alrdy use the common areas in game examples are the beach in the mist, Costa la sol beach and ship as well as a few other spots. The common areas would still be limited to the player rendering limit the game as already been using. So opening up ine large common area will result in alot of players popping in and out of rendering since it's all one huge common areas. That sounds terrible. It alrdy is a small issue at bug venues.

Second how would you advertise it? Community mist instance number 4 of for the large plot 12? I'm just making up numbers but you are now layering more instances on top of eachother making advertising venues or getting directions worse. At least now it's a physical location not a location with 10 or more instances you have to choose from like appartments. Currently you can say this plot on this ward is me. Not this plot instance 4 is me.

Instances takes away from the unique living areas and aspect of the residential districts. We don't need more instanced areas in the game. I'm curious how this whole situation would have gone if SE's lottery didn't have a bug in it? Would we still be discussing these topics or would it be a smaller group complaining they didn't win instead of a bug?

Everyone can't be happy but living areas like on BDO felt so off veung instances on top of eachother. At least in FF it's more of a physical location.

To summarize funneling all the plots and wards into one zone instanced on top of eachother sounds like a cluster and a mess. As of now things are more spread apart and easier to navigate. Imagine the chaos of pages after pages of people's areas instanced on eachother and trying to visit a place.

[ElysiumDragon]

As someone who frequents RP venues in the game, wouldn't this also significantly harm the so-called 'nightclub' scene, given that on most occasions, the player capacity of a housing instance can be filled multiple times over by such an event? Whenever I've been to these venues, it's been difficult to access the property itself precisely because of how instances in this game work. I don't think so-called 'Instanced Housing' is the correct solution here, especially with how unpopular Apartments (the instanced Housing option) are on many servers.

I feel like more Wards, and (the most important part) more player servers would fix these issues. Especially with what happened during the launch of Endwalker, I think it's become abundantly clear that the player population's too cramped together, and needs to be dispersed across a greater number of servers. Would probably significantly address the housing issues too.

I believe that organising around a single viable solution would allow the player base to make a much stronger case to the developers, instead of arguing over trivialities and (inevitably) ending up with harassment and unnecessary toxicity.

[MaeveHatesHousing]

especially with how unpopular Apartments (the instanced Housing option) are on many servers.

that is due to the fact apartments are a vastly inferior option to even the smallest home.

less overall space, no yard, no gardening, no outdoor furniture.

[Jojoya]

that is due to the fact apartments are a vastly inferior option to even the smallest home.

less overall space, no yard, no gardening, no outdoor furniture.

You can garden in apartments using flowerpots.

You can't intercross for new seeds, which the vast majority will never do because of the daily maintenance and RNG.

The gardening argument is always a funny one to see used considering a tour of the wards shows how very unpopular it is as an activity. It's rare to see a garden patch placed, rarer to see it in use and extremely rare to see someone actually intercrossing (you can tell by what they have planted).

Unfortunately this is how you have to get through to some of these people.

The only thing inappropriate analogies and hyperbole get across is the personal character of the individual posting such things.

Like it or not, there are good reasons why developers don't share more information more frequently. If you pay attention to player comments and feedback when information does get released in advance of the content release, it should become readily apparent what the biggest problem is.