My Infographic of the Results of the Latest Private Housing Lottery

[Rolder50]

A good point. I'm really not sure what the solution is. Maybe have FCs be non-instanced with wards and roll all private housing into an instanced system? It's just so clear that unless they're willing to spend hundreds of millions on servers just for housing there's no way they can meet the demand.

Pretty simple, just put out an instanced housing system that goes alongside the current system. People who want the neighborhood feel can still compete for those plots, people who don't and just want a house to decorate can have an instanced house. Also, if you provide instanced housing, there would be less competition / demand for the ward plots as well.

[HermitUK]

Pretty simple, just put out an instanced housing system that goes alongside the current system. People who want the neighborhood feel can still compete for those plots, people who don't and just want a house to decorate can have an instanced house. Also, if you provide instanced housing, there would be less competition / demand for the ward plots as well.

You'd still need more servers though. Presumably if it was instanced, the house instance would be spun up when you or someone else visits and spun down when you leave, so you need capacity for that - presumably during busy periods you may not be able to access your house if the instance server is congested (same thing happened with Inn rooms during the EW congestion as I recall). Plus you still need to store all the relevant data regarding house fixtures and fittings, colours, etc.

I'm sure on a per-house basis it would be less resource-intensive than the housing wards, but it still requires some hefty investment in additional server architecture.