Worst housing system in the world

[SilverSp]

Hey you ! Do you have enough Gil to own anything in the game ? Well … Too bad !! You can’t have it unless you get lucky !
Saving Gil to upgrade or buy a plot you desire ?
Well too bad so sad ! Unless you get lucky you’ll never get to have it no matter how much you save !

Atleast in real life if you live in the worlds most expensive cities you have to over pay to get something you really want but in this game you can’t do that either .. you’re no allowed to get anything unless luck favours you .

At first you had to fight off 20 auto clickers clicking that placard behind a hidden timer for 24 hours now this ! After all that this is what you get . Well atleast you’re not paying money for this game … oh wait you are !

[LaylaTsarra]

They need to do something and add instanced housing because adding wards will never meet the demand.

[Ransu]

They need to do something and add instanced housing because adding wards will never meet the demand.

They did. They're called apartments.

[VerdeLuck]

They need to do something and add instanced housing because adding wards will never meet the demand.

Apartments exist and are instanced housing. They're bad for hosting events and they're considered inferior, so players still try for real houses. How would an instanced house that's also inferior, has no neighborhood, likely lower capacity, has more steps and takes longer to enter, be any different? If they're going instanced they'd need to go all instanced, but that's not likely. What is likely though is they're going to add more wards and another housing area in a few years when 7.0 comes out and it will be grossly insufficient, and we'll have this same discussion all over again.

[LaylaTsarra]

Apartments exist and are instanced housing. They're bad for hosting events and they're considered inferior, so players still try for real houses. How would an instanced house that's also inferior, has no neighborhood, likely lower capacity, has more steps and takes longer to enter, be any different? If they're going instanced they'd need to go all instanced, but that's not likely. What is likely though is they're going to add more wards and another housing area in a few years when 7.0 comes out and it will be grossly insufficient, and we'll have this same discussion all over again.

The two can coexist they're not mutually exclusive. Apartments could work too but they need to make them more desirable given not everyone wants a garden or to deal with airships/subs. I don't use my gardens or my workshops. They also have the option to decouple workshops from FC's and place them with Grand Company in my view like Squadrons.

They need to do more to give people a housing solution. People have been asking for it for years and wards although i personally love them don't seem to be the answer for many.

[Kamelel]

... How would an instanced house that's also inferior, has no neighborhood, likely lower capacity, has more steps and takes longer to enter, be any different? ...

Imagine if they instead let us buy apartments with the same size and capacity as houses, along with as an outdoor area of some kind. If the space is instanced anyway it could even allow you to go directly between the indoors and the garden without any clicks! I for one think the lack of neighborhood and an additional click to get into the instance would be worth it.

[DamianFatale]

They need to do something and add instanced housing because adding wards will never meet the demand.

Doubling the amount of wards would be a start though. Imagine if there were 50 of them per datacenter. We currently have 7114 houses per server now. If we doubled, then we would have 14228. If we went to 100 wards per server then we would have 28456. It would go a long way to providing housing for every player. I don't even think most servers get to have that many people, so it would provide room and growth for future housing in the long run.

[XiXiQ]

It's not just about the plots, which is bad enough. Placing furniture is also the worst I've ever seen. No z-axis, and a stupid classification system for floors/walls/indoor/outdoor. The entire system needs a broom through it.

[Zsavooz]

It's not just housing that's wrong with this game.

[KikiTia]

Hey you ! Do you have enough Gil to own anything in the game ? Well … Too bad !! You can’t have it unless you get lucky !
Saving Gil to upgrade or buy a plot you desire ?
Well too bad so sad ! Unless you get lucky you’ll never get to have it no matter how much you save !

Atleast in real life if you live in the worlds most expensive cities you have to over pay to get something you really want but in this game you can’t do that either .. you’re no allowed to get anything unless luck favours you .

At first you had to fight off 20 auto clickers clicking that placard behind a hidden timer for 24 hours now this ! After all that this is what you get . Well atleast you’re not paying money for this game … oh wait you are !

Rest assured the grand majority of the community is with you. For something so laidback and easygoing as an ingame house it is shockingly difficult and arbitrary to get one. And it won't ever end until they give us instanced housing.