Quote Originally Posted by jhollaz View Post
I've said it before, but in a digital world, I fail to understand why new wards can't be auto created (perhaps after the required number of players sign up to fill it, which shouldn't be an issue).
Square has a data management problem. Players have begged them for years to expand all sorts of capacities (inventory, armoury, glamour, wards etc.) and they've struggled to comply. Based on past comments their underlying code architecture wasn't designed to scale to the current population.

The ward system essentially requires the manifests for all the exterior decorations of every house to be in server memory constantly. It's horribly inefficient which requires far more physical hardware than a comparable instancing system that could offload plots or smaller neighborhoods not in active use.