Need more wards.

[Necrotica]

Just keep adding them. Breaks the servers.

Or or or or...
Add fucking instanced housing.

[ZiraZ]

Just add a monthly rent to large houses problem solved, 50mil a month sounds great to me!

[WillIrishclover]

As someone with a personal house and a FC house, I agree that honestly the system needs relooked at, Yoshi P very clearly has the idea of these living breathing housing wards and clearly wants everyone to have a house, yet doesn't have the number of houes avail to fulfil this dream.

The Original system led to botting and people buying entire wards

The Placard system had very real health issues, I cant believe a system where someone may have to sit clicking a placard for potentially to 24 hours was even approved.

The lottery system leaving things to pure chance has major drawbacks as well.

I think the only solution now is allowing enough houses for everyone an increase in wards

[Wolfspirit]

What they need to do honestly is make it account wide so people so have alts can use the same house as there main. I’ve been trying to get a house ever since I got enough Gil for a small and keep losing every single time.

[Fable]

Demolition and add an extra subdivision to all wards, imo. What happened to upgraded apartments too? I was really looking forward to that.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Honestly?

We don't need more wards - the fact is when 7.0 comes around there will be a OVER-abundance of housing as likely Sharlayan opens; keep in mind that FF 14 is likely not going to grow much faster then it already has - as players quit as the game gets older more plots are going to open. On the VERY busy crystal DC MANY plots had 0 bids on them; its not about just wanting a house at this point - its everyone wanting "the best"
That said
We need to allow our homes to be auto-shared with all our characters.
We need to drastically increase the housing item limits.
We need to allow "additional chambers" on all homes - not just FC's and allow players to have more then 1; so if you want to add rooms to your home you can.
We need to limit the # of homes to 1 character per world if not Per DC.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Already mentioned this in another thread, but I’m joining the chorus for instanced housing. With Island Sanctuary being such a large instanced area that also allows for visitors, they’ve shown it’s already possible from a server standpoint. And it would allow everyone to have their dream plots. Just choose your location and size. Lav small? 59! Lav medium? 41. And so on… just load in somewhere in front of the plot and keep all the surrounding background scenery. Losing lotto after lotto just feels bad, in a game where we’re paying a sub.

[Necrotica]

Honestly?

We don't need more wards - the fact is when 7.0 comes around there will be a OVER-abundance of housing as likely Sharlayan opens; keep in mind that FF 14 is likely not going to grow much faster then it already has - as players quit as the game gets older more plots are going to open. On the VERY busy crystal DC MANY plots had 0 bids on them; its not about just wanting a house at this point - its everyone wanting "the best"
That said
We need to allow our homes to be auto-shared with all our characters.
We need to drastically increase the housing item limits.
We need to allow "additional chambers" on all homes - not just FC's and allow players to have more then 1; so if you want to add rooms to your home you can.
We need to limit the # of homes to 1 character per world if not Per DC.

There is an overabundance of small FC housing because the devs have no idea what they are doing.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Honestly I think the problem with the everyone getting their "dream house" is people will just mark it off the "to do" list and once they got it just unsub a few months later. I have seen people praise instanced housing - but every game I see it done really seems to be either dead or gone. I think the reality is that when everyone gets everything they want when they want it; they will just stop appreciating it.

I feel a simple compromise is to allow people to build small houses on island sanctuaries; but then they will just demand mediums and larges and before you know it we will be back to IS's being unavailable as they were when they first dropped and everyone was trying them out. Island sanctuaries kinda proved that dynamic instanced housing wasn't really viable. Keeping is mind that island sanctuary is actually VERY simple in the way they work.

I feel that the lotto does not work on a bunch of levels; firstly that repeatedly losing should improve your chances to win. Everyone should get their turn. This means newer players will have to wait but they will also get their turn as well.

I would also suggest that for FC bids that rather then be Lotto - they should be based on How much company points your FC is willing to bid. This means that big and active FCs (logically) should get top billing for FC plots.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

WARD 7--------8-----------37---------38---------1--------------31---------19---------49
26 1/1/1/3/3 1/1/3/2/3 0/2/2/3/3 0/1/2/2/3 1/1/1/1/2 1/1/1/1/1 0/0/1/2/2 0/0/24/26/26
27 1/1/3/3/4 1/1/3/3/3 1/1/2/2/4 1/1/2/3/3 0/1/1/1/1 1/1/1/1/1 1/1/1/2/2 0/0/1/1/1
28 6/7/7/7/7 2/2/4/4/4 0/2/2/3/3 1/2/2/4/4 0/0/3/3/3 1/1/1/1/2 0/1/1/2/2 1/1/1/1/2
29 2/3/4/4/4 1/1/1/2/3 4/3/3/3/4 1/4/4/4/4 1/1/1/1/2 0/1/1/1/2 0/3/3/3/3 1/1/1/1/2
30 -/2/3/3/3 -/2/4/4/5 -/3/4//4/5 -/4/4/4/4 -/2/3/3/3 -/1/2/2/3 -/3/3/4/4 -/1/1/2/2

Above was me tracking the bid growth of 2 larges and 4 mediums in Shirogane
None of them save 1 ever even hit double digits (with the noteworthy point that 11th hour bidders likely came in)
The medium I bid on I lost to the first bidder; there were 3 bids by the end - notice the outlier was likely a FC that just had everyone bid on the same plot.

On a foot note I know atleast 2 FC's got screwed because their members wanted to bid on Private homes this lotto - so their FC put forward only a few bids.