One House Per Data Center

[Jojoya]

One per data center still doesn't solve the supply problem when it's estimated there are up to 2 million active players (personally I think the number is about half that - players forget the unofficial census is for characters, not accounts).

We have 73 worlds across 9 data centers, each world with 7200 houses. That's 525,600 houses game-wide, less than the estimated number of active players and not including the number of FCs competing for those houses. Those numbers will be gradually increased to 93 worlds across 12 data centers and 669.600 houses over the next 16 months (if SE is able to keep to their tentative schedule that was announced back in January).

SE is going to continue to prioritize FCs for housing. Expect 40% of the houses to end up in FC hands. That leaves about 400,000 houses for personal use.

Depending on what you believe the current number of active accounts is, you're looking at enough houses for 20-40% of players. Give players the chance to get one house per data center and the percentage of players able to get a house drops even further as more players try to take advantage of the ability to get multiple houses. Each additional house a single player gets is one less player able to get a house at all.

If there is one million active players split evenly across all 93 worlds, SE would need to increase the number of wards (with subdivisions) per world to 180 just so every player could have a single house per account. If there are two million active players, it would require 360 wards per world.

To allow players up to 8 houses per account (keeping in mind that entry subscriptions have a limit of 8 characters), it would require 1440-2880 wards per world.

To allow players up to 12 houses per account (one per data center), it would require 2160-4320 wards per world.

And all those numbers don't include the number of houses and wards that would also need to be set aside for FC use.

It will not work. The numbers involved are too large to be sustainable using a ward system. There will always be players left out.

[Themarvin]

How about just not making a shitty system worse? Direct your energy at asking SE for more and better housing instead of thinking up more punishment in the name of fairness. That's the one true fair path.

Edit: And to explain this further, hopefully so a few people understand better, the more we call to punish people to make housing more exclusive, the more likely SE is to mistake our calls and do just that, make housing harder to get.

Because that's what they will think we want!

Instead, put all energy into asking for better and more housing. Which gives no mixed messages to Yoshi-P that we like this exclusive, hard to get trophy housing. Make it clear we need more housing to go around - using whatever method they can do it with - but do it avoiding suggestion that make restrictions worse.

Let's move away from "we love housing extreme so much, but now let's make it harder for people so we can do Housing Ultimate!"

So you don't like the lottery system and FC's being 30 days old before a buy and that transfer of leadership also require someone to have been member for 30 days aka... you need 2 months to resell an FC and make yourself more visible?

And also indirectly telling that 'clicking' a placecard untill it opens is better or have bots doing it for you is a good idea.

I don't see the point to down vote current lottery system and new rules especially in how to do the new ways of FC's run, would even suggest to enhance the system that all 4 members before buying a house also need 30 FC days on their back.

Current system is good, more houses later and more wards will open up for personal housing as well, as in how they did previous times.

[Kyssa]

House flippers do not care about the 30 day requirement- hell, this whole messed up situation just gave them more time to make their pixelated real estate more attractive to a potential buyer.


I am for the lottery, given it works, over the old click system- but honestly, until everyone can acquire a home (instanced housing or endless wards)- the system is never going to "work as intended". Found this yesterday- I cringe to think how hard it may be to get an FC plot on the next lottery round due to flippers.