The minimum acceptable situation

[Themarvin]

Instanced housing for personals. You can keep the wards as they are, and institute housing that isn't the breadbox of an apartment sized. Perhaps even gate it behind MSQ content. (I mean, Smileton is right there on the moon waiting to be used.)

It's a great opportunity to rethink housing in general.

It would be better to make the FC's instanced and housing free then the trade with FC's on cool wards stops... and you can't trade normal housing as it is 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.