Open Up FC Housing Zones for Individuals

[Domdalom]

There are more housing spots available in ONE SINGLE district of the FC locked district in the new housing zone as compared to the entire server on Malboro. This is beyond ridiculous. They needed to open up the FC zones this round when they could see this has been a UTTER FAILURE. Are they waiting for people to quit because of this?

[Dagget]

They undoubtedly will, but I suspect not until 6.2 as they have mentioned they would make adjustments to the housing distribution each major patch. Yoshi really should interrupt that scheme and enable personal housing in wards 1-18 asap, though, as it clear at this point that FC's are not really in the market for small house plots.

[Renaway]

I fail to see what's the problem with hundreds of people fighting over a single plot when the FC wards are nearly empty.

[Nav_Fae]

The FC wards are fine. Those plots of land will be consumed when all the Larges and Mediums are taken. All the FCs are fighting over those first.

[Elesh]

There are more housing spots available in ONE SINGLE district of the FC locked district in the new housing zone as compared to the entire server on Malboro. This is beyond ridiculous. They needed to open up the FC zones this round when they could see this has been a UTTER FAILURE. Are they waiting for people to quit because of this?

I've been thinking about this a lot. I suspect what they're trying to do is establish, once and for all, exactly how much FC housing need there actually is. The only reasonable way to do this is to give them more than they need and give it a few cycles to settle so they can make a more objective evaluation of what the need actually is.

My suspicion(and hope) is that they'll give it a few cycles - maybe 5 or 6 - so there's plenty of time for FC housing to stabilize, then start making further adjustments from there.

[DiaDeem]

We got our FC house in Empyreum with no issue (once the whole 0 Lottery debacle was solved) and I'd like to see the ward fill up. The demand for personals definitely seems higher than for FCs. I visited some of the Personal wards and all houses had at least three to five bids. I wanna see our neighborhood full! I love visiting people and enjoying the ways in which many decorate their places.

[PharisHanasaki]

We got our FC house in Empyreum with no issue (once the whole 0 Lottery debacle was solved) and I'd like to see the ward fill up. The demand for personals definitely seems higher than for FCs. I visited some of the Personal wards and all houses had at least three to five bids. I wanna see our neighborhood full! I love visiting people and enjoying the ways in which many decorate their places.

The demand for personal housing is indeed higher, but the probability of it getting abandoned and deserted is just as high.

The only neighbours I ever saw around were those from real FCs. I think I saw one of my non FC neighbors maybe twice in the nearly 3 years we lived in Shirogane.
They will open the wards for personal housing once the FC housing demand drops. FC can do more stuff in their homes as well.

[dspguy]

They probably will, eventually. I think they'll let it go a few more lottery cycles. On my server, maybe 20% of the FC plots are bought up. Maybe less. A few more cycles, only smalls will be left. Then maybe they'll consider opening it up.

[Domdalom]

They undoubtedly will, but I suspect not until 6.2 as they have mentioned they would make adjustments to the housing distribution each major patch. Yoshi really should interrupt that scheme and enable personal housing in wards 1-18 asap, though, as it clear at this point that FC's are not really in the market for small house plots.

Which means when I don't win my lottery next Tuesday, I may as well unsub until then at the very least.

[Shougun]

Given the lottery system I don't think immediately unlocking stuff entirely makes sense since certain plots being empty doesn't exactly equate to their lack of interest. Also, said in another thread, but I believe the ward system works best with clustered density of FC like situations.. so if we really care about the whole 'neighborhood' then FC does it best. That said I'm not discounting the annoyances involved with the system in general... I'm very much in the "I wish we had powerful 1:1 demand instanced housing" camp.

Given the current system's mechanics you'll be at least guaranteed salt, salt in every action lol. Just need to pick the best ones, because it'll never fix the issues so long as it is the only system that exists. Like I get some people don't like the idea of competing against bots in a lottery but I strongly feel the whole 8 hour pound your head against a placard (that also has bots) is a worse factory of salt, and so this is the lesser of evils.