Quote Originally Posted by Ket-Xil View Post
so do people think in game instances are magical no-cost "things"? No, instances like EVERYTHING ELSE IN A PROGRAM has a size, a space it takes up. Please stop talking about instanced housing as if it's something that can easily be implemented without a hardware cost associated with it. (Yes I do have a technical background)
Do you really have a techincal background? Are you aware that the bits that make up your forum avatar's thumbnail is likely larger than the file size of a large plot?

A datafile containing a manifest of items and their associated properties (coordinates, dye, on/off, etc) would be tiny, no matter your housing size.

Instanced housing is an architecture issue, not a storage issue.