Data analysis of the current housing situation

[Eraden]

Goblet is very hit or miss. The houses around the middle are great, as are the couple off on their own little island. The filler around the edges are trash.

BOOOO! Mao house is plot 25. Mao has great view of canyon. Mao LIKES house! Is NOTS trash!

[VelKallor]

BOOOO! Mao house is plot 25. Mao has great view of canyon. Mao LIKES house! Is NOTS trash!

Vel says if Mao wants to see Vels house, make alt and come to Kujata, Vel will give guided tour anytime.

[SlouchyBard]

BOOOO! Mao house is plot 25. Mao has great view of canyon. Mao LIKES house! Is NOTS trash!

My FC has plot 24 of goblet, so I know how gorgeous that view is. Mao needs to check view right as sunrise and sunset since its super pretty!

Side note, i do love spawning in and not having to move to access the MB. Two feet and I am at the retainer bells. May be a small, but it is perfect. Couldn't ask for anything better. Chef's kiss.

[Kaurhz]

Goblet is very hit or miss. The houses around the middle are great, as are the couple off on their own little island. The filler around the edges are trash.

Most plots on the eastern side are pretty good as well, tbh. Per what Mao said, you get a view of the Canyons, and you get a really nice view of the sunset. The only plots I think that are miss are the ones on the western side (minus Plot13) because you get a nice downward view.

[Sindele]

I mean, there are really only two viable solutions if you want to minimize the development time spent on the problem - 1) add servers to the most densely packed DCs and drastically up the incentives for transferal, 2) add wards to packed servers without the ridiculous insistence on complete parity.

Being honest, I think adding wards to packed servers is legitimately the only realistic near-future solution. You're going to struggle to ever get a significant amount of people off of Balmung, for instance, no matter what you offer - not even if it becomes nearly unplayable. Only answer to a supply crisis where you can't stem demand is to add more supply.

Of course, in a perfect world data is free and instances add no overhead and are infinitely scalable so you could infinitely expand availability forever. It's also abundantly clear that we don't live in a perfect world and this game doesn't easily support that just yet, or it would have been done years ago. It's a huge systems engineering task, big enough that there are no practical limits on what the solution could be and big enough that you can't really pin all your hopes on it. It's almost certainly in the cards for the future, and I fully believe Island Sanctuary has been a grand data collection experiment towards it... but there's just not a magic "Add Instanced Housing" checkbox that they've been refusing to click.

[MsMisato]

I mean, there are really only two viable solutions if you want to minimize the development time spent on the problem - 1) add servers to the most densely packed DCs and drastically up the incentives for transferal, 2) add wards to packed servers without the ridiculous insistence on complete parity.

Being honest, I think adding wards to packed servers is legitimately the only realistic near-future solution. You're going to struggle to ever get a significant amount of people off of Balmung, for instance, no matter what you offer - not even if it becomes nearly unplayable. Only answer to a supply crisis where you can't stem demand is to add more supply.

Of course, in a perfect world data is free and instances add no overhead and are infinitely scalable so you could infinitely expand availability forever. It's also abundantly clear that we don't live in a perfect world and this game doesn't easily support that just yet, or it would have been done years ago. It's a huge systems engineering task, big enough that there are no practical limits on what the solution could be and big enough that you can't really pin all your hopes on it. It's almost certainly in the cards for the future, and I fully believe Island Sanctuary has been a grand data collection experiment towards it... but there's just not a magic "Add Instanced Housing" checkbox that they've been refusing to click.

the incentives are there for transferring the issue is SE should have add those new servers on dynamis to the existing DCs instead of creating a new DC.

Personally i would like them to give plot owners the option to upgrade their homes to something larger on existing plots. and do away the limit garden bs. The same goes for apartments.

[Sindele]

Incentives exist. They're just not good enough, certainly not for established players. 10 gold feathers and at-cost + 3m furniture reimbursement for housing might as well be nothing. If you want people to actually take up the offer from heavily established worlds, you need to really up the ante.

[NekoMataMata]

I'm glad to see someone doing research on it and actually using the research accurately instead of twisting it for their own bias.

[Kaliesto]

Housing in its current state was a mistake.

[whysosalty]

Housing in its current state was a mistake.

I disagree, it afforded me some really fun opportunities (check out Goblet Ward 25 sub division on Bryn for a bit of fun).