New Ward Classifications are out!

[Knot_D]

There is a 90 degree difference in rotation between main division and subdivision. The front of LB-11 faces south while the front of LB-41 faces west. As a result, LB-41 gets lovely sunsets.


LB-11 does have one advantage though - the moment someone enters the ward, they can swim straight to your house XD

I feel like from overall plot location, the subdivision is much better to watch sunset and better lightning from sun's direction. Main division plots like Goblet 19 is pretty bad because the windmill shadow will cause dizziness, while plot 49 don't have that problem at all

[LaylaTsarra]

There is a 90 degree difference in rotation between main division and subdivision. The front of LB-11 faces south while the front of LB-41 faces west. As a result, LB-41 gets lovely sunsets.


LB-11 does have one advantage though - the moment someone enters the ward, they can swim straight to your house XD

Yes that is nice and I'm was aware of the sunsets but I'd take an 11 rather than no plot and always have the option to try for a 41 as a transfer at a later date. I'm personally waiting to see the new skin in game before I decide on a skin for the house and start my garden.

These were the bids on Hali in the FC zones when I placed my two bids just before bids ended.

Plots 11 and 41 Lavender Reg/Sub
Ward 1......9...10
Ward 2......3...7
Ward 3......5...6
Ward 4......5...10
Ward 5......5...12
Ward 6......8...9
Ward 7......4...8
Ward 8......5...7
Ward 9......6...7
Ward 10....3...7
Ward 11....6...7
Ward 12....6...17

I elected to go with one with 3 bids and placed bid 4 and 5 and won with number 5.

[Elevin]

They should have kept the current split and left it at that. All new housing would be personal. Combined with auto demolition this is fine. But now FCs get screwed over once more. Eventually the FC housing would have filled up, but due to people complaining about a few empty small houses, FCs screwed over for the foreseeable future.

Well, at least it's good in the long run for myself and my 2 FC workshops at least. Less competition and more money from submarine loot. Thanks Yoshi P!

[Knot_D]

My god now you have to compete with people with legit FC and FC shells combined! RIP Medium and Large plots...

[LaylaTsarra]

My god now you have to compete with people with legit FC and FC shells combined! RIP Medium and Large plots...

Any homeless FC should bid on at least one small to insure they get a plot. If a FC has a number of members they can also bid on the Large or Medium of their choice but realistically unless the housing is available like with Dynamis you're going to have a lot of competition for those and especially those in prime locations. Placing all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.

A homeless FC or even private buyer for that matter bidding only on a large or medium in the first round with only 6 wards on established servers (30 if you count all 5 housing districts) is asking to continue to be homeless. FC's at least have the option to bid on more than one house and if they are lucky to get that large or medium losing the gil on a small would be a small penalty to pay.

Waiting to bid until the morning the lottery closes is also a good idea in my view to insure you can find a plot with 0 bids or with only a few. A house is better than no house.

[DeNada]

My god now you have to compete with people with legit FC and FC shells combined! RIP Medium and Large plots...

As the adage goes, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, go big or go home!

[Pablomaldito]

As the adage goes, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, go big or go home!

Going home is the dream, so I'm not going big on Balmung :P

[Jojoya]

There are a lot of us. Only 2 of our FCs 13 members have personal housing, and pretty much all but 3 want to get personals. I have been bidding in every round and never won a damn thing whether it was against 200 people or 1. There are usually upwards of 700 bids on my world per round right now, and that's with many I know giving up who don't have a house and waiting for the new wards. I'm the only one of the 8 that has been bidding. I also know several other people on other worlds still trying for first house.

If you only seeing around 700-800 bids per lottery cycle, you have nothing to worry about. There will be 1500 out of 1800 available for you to bid on in the new wards, plus whatever becomes available through demolition once that's resumed for a few weeks.

My god now you have to compete with people with legit FC and FC shells combined! RIP Medium and Large plots...

Shell FCs shouldn't be much of a problem because they don't have the large number of members able to bid. The legit FCs that would be more of a threat but there also shouldn't be that many of them on most worlds considering wards haven't been sold out for all that long except on some of the Crystal worlds.

As for mediums and larges? The number of players who will want to relocate should negate any meaningful advantage the larger FCs have in the split wards. Even if a FC has 20 out of 200 entries on a plot, that's still 180 chances to lose compared to only 20 chances to win.

[justausername]

If you only seeing around 700-800 bids per lottery cycle, you have nothing to worry about. There will be 1500 out of 1800 available for you to bid on in the new wards, plus whatever becomes available through demolition once that's resumed for a few weeks.
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700-800 CURRENTLY. CURRENTLY. This will grow exponentially when new plots are added. Because many have given up for the time being. If my own little FC is anything to go by, 700-800 is only 1/5th the number of people who ACTUALLY want to bid, but have not found it worth it to go against 150+ people each time and have decided to wait for the new wards and stopped bidding until then. This means the actual bids could be closer to 3500 when the new wards come out, WAY more then there are plots. Enough for all plots to have 2+ bids. Now not all will, Larges and Meds will have more, meaning some smalls will in fact end up with 0 or just 1 due to limitation of 1 bid per character regardless of type, but it wont be 700-800 when the new wards come out, noooo way.

[DeNada]

700-800 CURRENTLY. CURRENTLY. This will grow exponentially when new plots are added. Because many have given up for the time being. If my own little FC is anything to go by, 700-800 is only 1/5th the number of people who ACTUALLY want to bid, but have not found it worth it to go against 150+ people each time and have decided to wait for the new wards and stopped bidding until then. This means the actual bids could be closer to 3500 when the new wards come out, WAY more then there are plots. Enough for all plots to have 2+ bids. Now not all will, Larges and Meds will have more, meaning some smalls will in fact end up with 0 or just 1 due to limitation of 1 bid per character regardless of type, but it wont be 700-800 when the new wards come out, noooo way.

I seriously doubt that the actual demand is 5 times the number of bids we have been seeing over several lottery rounds which have been pretty consistent.

Imo, the actual demand is more likely to be just a few hundreds on worlds outside of Balmung based on the number of bids when there are only smalls available since we'll have to include relocator bids as well whenever there is a medium or large up for bidding. Which means that 4 mixed wards plus 1 private ward in 6.3 is definitely more than enough for everyone to get a house.

Despite all the complaints and gnashing of teeth in the forums, I do sincerely believe that the addition of wards plus auto demolition on 6.3 will finally solve FFXIV housing woes once and for all.

Though good luck if you are a fellow Balmung denizen lol!