Quote Originally Posted by Valorath View Post
I ran roulettes to earn gil in anticipation of the new wards opening up in 6.3, bid on a medium house, waited, and lost.
This was your mistake. Mediums and Larges will always be heavily contested by FC's and Players due to how few there are. Now imagine trying since 2.4 for ANY small and never succeeding. That is where I and two of my friends are still to this day.

The real issues with supply that could be fixed are:

1. Make FC only wards only apply to Meds and Larges. Balmung and Mateus both have DOZENS of Smalls in FC only wards sitting there collecting dust. They will never be used until the servers allow new characters again, which leads to....
2. Prevent multi account buyers of housing for submarine farms. Honestly just straight up remove all money from submarines or move them out of housing to the Grand company halls so we don't have incidents like what is happening in the other thread.
3. Remove the grandfathering of multi house owners and take their houses. This is a real problem on your server in particular as TWO people own two entire wards of the goblet.
4. Give priority on first time buyers over relocators for smalls. One major issue is that once someone gets a house, they aren't really ever removed from the pool of buyers as a whole. I have witnessed someone win a small house in the goblet, then when a plot that had a better view/access was free, they bid on it and won, preventing tons of first time buyers from getting a house.

Or you know, bite the bullet for the tech upgrade to add enough wards to eliminate supply problems/ add instanced housing. The issue with these however is the Game engine itself has some very...difficult restrictions. It's why things like Larges having a pathetically small item limit exist in the first place.