One thing that puzzles me about not being able to cross-breed plants in apartments (and possibly by extention an instanced house), is Yoshi's point about the weather. I haven't noticed any way that the weather affects the plants. It can rain all day in LB and I still have to tend the crop or it dies. So, I don't understand the relevance.

Regardless of whether the weather is an issue, I do feel strongly that something needs to be done to increase the supply of houses (and really, arguing about semantics is a bit unkind when many people here are not native English speakers and it's pretty clear what they mean).

I'm already seeing a lot of houses owned by 4 person FCs that haven't been decorated and don't appear to be used (including larges). But as Jojoya has pointed out, a lot of the systems available to house owners are very labour intensive and maybe not as much fun or as lucrative as people expect.

Personally, I'm bemused by the decision to give every player their own private instanced island and yet a feature that people have been asking for more access to since HW gets little more than band-aids. Instanced houses would seem to be the most logical solution, there are already unused exits in the older wards, so those could be used as access points.