The minimum acceptable situation

[Oizen]

End the plot system and just do instanced housing like every other game released after 2010.

And even some before 2010.

[DeNada]

Delete all housing, apartments only. If there is no differentiated class of housing and everyone can only have the same type of in-game lodgings, there will be no more complaints.

Also, there will be no more fear of auto-demolition and the apartment system can then be expanded upon with the freed-up servers now that they are not needed 24/7 for housing wards.

[Stormpeaks]

End the plot system and just do instanced housing like every other game released after 2010.

And even some before 2010.

Yeah nah, let's not do that thank you very much.

People have their houses and are happy with them, we shouldnt lose our plots because you cant get a shiro large uncontested, sorry.

Delete all housing, apartments only. If there is no differentiated class of housing and everyone can only have the same type of in-game lodgings, there will be no more complaints.

Also, there will be no more fear of auto-demolition and the apartment system can then be expanded upon with the freed-up servers now that they are not needed 24/7 for housing wards.

How about, let me think.. No.

[Turtledeluxe]

If FCs mainly want MD and LG houses, their wards should be designed with that in mind imo. That ship has sailed of course since the game features one identical neighborhood layout per housing area. The minimum acceptable metric in that case is - - are all houses filled? If they aren't something is wrong. That's where we are right now.

[Remedyy]

Some of my suggestions may not be popular but I believe they would help.

-Create new ward maps with primarily medium and larges. Keep personal and FC wards separated.
-Make Flame/Serpent/Storm captain new requirement to get housing and to create a FC.
-Allow apartments to have different sizes. Allow gil compensation to people with ward houses that choose to relocate to an apartment. (I understand this could be abused, maybe a once per character/account thing.) I just know a lot of people would rather have apartment style medium/larges because they don't really care about yards.

And to give more incentive for people to move from congested to preferred worlds. Chocobo Feathers/ slight housing refunds/ and road to 80 or nice--but something that would really pull to preferred worlds.

[Khryseis_Astra]

While I’d like to see apartments get an update with different sized layouts, apartments aren’t a substitute for a house. As it is now, you can have both, and many do. Maybe some people don’t care about outdoor space, but the ones that do aren’t going to be satisfied with an apartment, especially when anyone pining for a house probably already has one, and maybe an FC room as well.

I also like the medium/large only ward layout idea, but that would take a lot of commitment on SE’s part and who knows how much server space. One of the reasons I keep campaigning for instanced is I truly think it’s the easiest way to satisfy the largest amount of people for the least amount of effort. Keep the existing wards and add on instanced. The instanced house/ plots could be modeled after the already existing ward plots, so anyone can pick the one their heart desires. And nothing gets taken away from anyone else.

[Sindele]

What you're proposing is not in the slightest the 'least amount of effort' here - that's an entirely new system that has to be developed, and that won't come cheap. Budgeted out, there's a very real chance a 'new ward design full of nothing but larges' would cost less. Engineering time is expensive, and there's plenty of design and QA work implied there on top of that.

[Solowing]

i like this one for being unique, sure its limited but we have apts

[Ayan_Calvesse]

End the plot system and just do instanced housing like every other FAILED game released after 2010.

And even some before 2010.

Fixed that for you.

-Add some kind of upkeep to housing to prevent folks grabbing housing simply for the sake of having it.
-Remove large/Medium personals from wards.
-Resize ALL plots so that a owner starts at a small and must invest time/gil into the house to increase its size (if they choose to) as a Medium should fit in the new "resized" plots.
-Allow people to select one of 2-3 orientations of their home on their plot.
-In FC only wards leave larges so that large active FC's can compete with each other.
-Have houses have a increase of item limits over time - the purpose of this is to increase the amount of gil moving through the economy by encourging players to redecor as they get a larger item limit over time and allow long time home owners to see their houses becoming complex and elaborate vs the level 20 housing alts everywhere.
-Built in saving of housing builds and VASTLY larger housing storage NOT linked to the house but the character instead.
-One home per world; One FC home per world - in the event that you inherit a FC you are unable to decorate that FC house or enter its workshop. You go first come/first served - so if you can already deco/use the workshop of a FC house - the moment you inherit another; those new houses are under such restrictions until the "prime" FC is no longer the case. This allows you to be in multiple FC's without resulting in mass private FC home ownership.
-Workshop access to all characters via GC.

[Stormpeaks]

Add some kind of upkeep to housing to prevent folks grabbing housing simply for the sake of having it.

No.

Remove large/Medium personals from wards

No.

Resize ALL plots so that a owner starts at a small and must invest time/gil into the house to increase its size (if they choose to) as a Medium should fit in the new "resized" plots.

No.

In FC only wards leave larges so that large active FC's can compete with each other.

It's fine as it is.

Have houses have a increase of item limits over time - the purpose of this is to increase the amount of gil moving through the economy by encourging players to redecor as they get a larger item limit over time and allow long time home owners to see their houses becoming complex and elaborate vs the level 20 housing alts everywhere.

No.

Built in saving of housing builds and VASTLY larger housing storage NOT linked to the house but the character instead.

Hell to the no.

One home per world; One FC home per world - in the event that you inherit a FC you are unable to decorate that FC house or enter its workshop. You go first come/first served - so if you can already deco/use the workshop of a FC house - the moment you inherit another; those new houses are under such restrictions until the "prime" FC is no longer the case. This allows you to be in multiple FC's without resulting in mass private FC home ownership.

Hell to the no.

Workshop access to all characters via GC

Sure, but then they will have to nerf it by a huge percentage.

There are times like these I'm really glad they dont read the forums, honestly, according to some, having an FC and a house should be a 24 7 job and constant upkeep to even keep the house, with a billion chores and annoyances to do, and a giant gil amount to keep it

just stop