SE need to stop this!

[LianaThorne]

Privates will sell unless you're talking about Materia which has it's unique issues right now. In my ward on Sophia a second medium just sold after months with 3 large, 2 mediums and 2 smalls being sold. There are 4 mediums just sitting there with no buyers. That's 7 houses sold with 23 open plots after months and months. My ward was initially a FC ward allowed to go private but I don't suspect these problems will exist on Dynamis or even the new EU servers. If they keep FC wards (after all those are houses that can be sold to people) as they are for months you're going to see the abuse happen.

I can't speak for whether or not ward sales have been going on here on Materia given I haven't really taken the time to look. They certainly have the time to do it if they so choose

I mean, Dynamis has been up for a month so far and outside of Seraph (for obvious reasons) there are still close to 3000 privates left. Unless we get a massive wave of new players then I don't see them selling for a long while still. Even the new EU servers still have about 1100 privates available between the two.

If you're curious Google Paissa Housing and check out that site, it lists up to date plot information for both Privates and FCs. Really good tool to help get an idea of the popularity of your server.

[LaylaTsarra]

I mean, Dynamis has been up for a month so far and outside of Seraph (for obvious reasons) there are still close to 3000 privates left. Unless we get a massive wave of new players then I don't see them selling for a long while still.

If you're curious Google Paissa Housing and check out that site, it lists up to date plot information for both Privates and FCs. Really good tool to help get an idea of the popularity of your server.

Yeah Seraph is pretty crowded, shades of Balmung.

Well private houses can't be used to build ward abuse it's the FC wards. That needs to be addressed in a big way and sooner rather than later. Keeping that split for months and months is just asking for abuse. Can't sell a private or use it for air/sub revenue which is in my view the main reason for the abuse.

The 12/12 split can work for a short time giving FC's the opportunity to get large and mediums for their memberships but that can't be kept like that for extended periods in my view. And with respect to population growth in my view more of Aether's and Crystals servers need to go congested. I don't know much about Primal don't have an alt there but their overcrowded servers need to go that route as well.

And I'll have to look that site up thank you.

[LianaThorne]

Yeah Seraph is pretty crowded, shades of Balmung.

Well private houses can't be used to build ward abuse it's the FC wards. That needs to be addressed in a big way and sooner rather than later. Keeping that split for months and months is just asking for abuse. Can't sell a private or use it for air/sub revenue which is in my view the main reason for the abuse.

The 12/12 split can work for a short time giving FC's the opportunity to get large and mediums for their memberships but that can't be kept like that for extended periods in my view. And with respect to population growth in my view more of Aether's and Crystals servers need to go congested. I don't know much about Primal don't have an alt there but their overcrowded servers need to go that route as well.

And I'll have to look that site up thank you.

Like I said earlier, people can just make alt accounts entirely if they got the disposable income to do so. That's the only way that private houses can be monopolized. But yes, FCs are the easier way to do it.

I honestly can't remember off the top of my head but have they ever shut down an entire DC for new players or transfers before? I think that might be a smart move to do as it'll help push people into the newer DCs if they haven't considered doing that before. But also, it is a dead period content wise so I wonder how much of an effect it would have compared to starting that during 7.0 for example when people would coming/returning in large numbers to see the new MSQ? Aether is probably the most congested out of all of them though due to the huge streamer presence there, Primal from my knowledge isn't as bad but still could probably do with several severs being put into congested rather than the entire DC.

Also you're welcome. C: