My issues with the new housing systems.

[Olivia0x25]

After seeing the new housing in effect, I figured I'd drop my input on this new design for housing and what I think are really bad issues that should be looked into when it comes to the new housing system.


1. The FC & Residential wards.

A lot of the main issues before the new housing system was that there was NOT enough housing to go around for everyone. Both FCs and players are looking for housing. The temporary solution to that back in the day was to just add more wards. It gave more chances, and more recycling of account that would lose interest.

However, now with the new system where the FC's have 75% of ALL the wards for plots reserved to them. You took a problem and didn't fix it, but rather put it somewhere else in even a BIGGER scale.

Some servers dont even have enough active FCs to fill up that may plots in wards. Some FCs are also being treated as player houses, which you managed to try to fix this patch, which is good, but the core problem is STILL there. Not enough wards for everyone. You simply could of increased the ward count yet again by another 25 wards and gave more of an opportunity to a lot more people. Not to mention, FC's DO supply an instanced base housing similar to apartments for each FC that owns a house.


2. The placard bidding.

Most of us can agree that the new lottery system is better than spamming a placard for 14 hours a day or waiting for prime time only to get beat by bots. I wont argue that. But what I will argue is that placing a bid and losing, is not fun. It never has been. What bothers me is that you are forcing players who want to buy a house to go to the house and bid on a placard. If they lost, why would you FORCE the player to go back to the placard? It's very demoralizing to have the player do a walk of shame to collect their gil at the placard and move on. Why not just MAIL them their gil back if they lost? Even if its in the form of an item, they could just log in, go to the mailbox, collect gil or the item equivalent of their gil, and sell it to a vendor for their gil back from their housing loss.


3. The waiting.

I made a post here already:

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...elocated-plots

So I dont wanna go deep diving into this, because there is a separate conversation there. but to summarize.

Why do player need to wait, to wait to bid, to wait for the bid to end, to wait some more if they lost? Just make confirmed relocated housing instant biddable so everything keeps going in motion.




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