Is the supply crisis over?

[PredatoryCatgirl]

I play on Sargatanas, which isn't the most populated server, but its not a backwater. I just checked Empyreum, where my house is, and there are six smalls that went unclaimed this cycle in either personal or mixed wards. Six houses that no one bought.

Okay, obviously this doesn't mean the system is perfect, but its a sign its getting better. A high pop server where anyone can just walk up and claim a small house is a good thing, and something we haven't seen for years.

[DrWho2010]

the supply crisis will never be over because people will always complain that they can't get larges whenever they want.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

the supply crisis will never be over because people will always complain that they can't get larges whenever they want.

Yeah, I don't care about Karens. I mean the people who are rightfully upset that they can't get any house at all.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Still seeing high bid counts each round (Crystal/Bryn), but at least the auto-demos seem to be generating just enough to keep the lotto going so far. There’s still not enough plots for the number of bidders, and there aren’t any seeing 0 bids just yet in mixed or personal wards. The FC wards are starting to fill in too, though there’s still more open plots there than anywhere else. There’s generally a handful of mediums up each round and the occasional large. Hard to tell overall if things will even out enough to make a substantial difference. I’m still seeing new people attuning to main city aetherytes every day, and eventually those people will want a house too, competing with everyone who’s lost every lotto round so far. I would say things seem a little better, but hardly enough to say “crisis over.” lol I think we’re hovering around 280 plots available here on Bryn, last I checked, but it’s results period so that’ll be in flux for another couple days, and a large chunk of that number is FC only plots.

[Amenara]

I think we are in a lull period with players taking a break due to it being an abnormally great year for other games and a bit of a content drought. I just got a small in the Mist with no competition on Gilga and the couple other houses I have bid on were low competition. I definitely think Mediums and Larges still have a big supply problem though.

[Reinha]

NA worlds with confirmed 0 bid personals last round:

Diabolos

Sargatanas

Exodus
Leviathan

Halicarnassus
Maduin
Marilith
Seraph

There were also several other NA worlds with plots that got only 1 or 2 bids. I used PaissaDB website with filters "Individual" and "Results". I feel that zero bid personal plots are a good metric to see if anyone who wants a personal house can get one. Now it seems there is at least one server in each data center where that demand has been met.

[OliverQ]

I play on Sargatanas, which isn't the most populated server, but its not a backwater. I just checked Empyreum, where my house is, and there are six smalls that went unclaimed this cycle in either personal or mixed wards. Six houses that no one bought.

Okay, obviously this doesn't mean the system is perfect, but its a sign its getting better. A high pop server where anyone can just walk up and claim a small house is a good thing, and something we haven't seen for years.

Smalls seem possible to get without too much trouble. Mediums/Large openings barely exist on my servers.

[Nepentha]

I play on Sargatanas, which isn't the most populated server, but its not a backwater. I just checked Empyreum, where my house is, and there are six smalls that went unclaimed this cycle in either personal or mixed wards. Six houses that no one bought.

Okay, obviously this doesn't mean the system is perfect, but its a sign its getting better. A high pop server where anyone can just walk up and claim a small house is a good thing, and something we haven't seen for years.

From what I can see, the only worlds struggling with housing are the ones listed as overcrowded. Otherwise yeah, the supply problem seems (at the moment) to be largely handled.

[Jojoya]

From what I can see, the only worlds struggling with housing are the ones listed as overcrowded. Otherwise yeah, the supply problem seems (at the moment) to be largely handled.

For now, yes.

It will be interesting to see what the situation is like when Dawntrail launches between returning players and the new Xbox players.

[dspguy]

For the most part, the crisis is still there for players that just joined and for players that didn't really bother to try to get a house when the pickings were good. While this doesn't apply to all servers, I can say that on my server, which is one of the more populous servers, as far as active players is concerned, we ended Lottery #2 after the new wards were added with some plots having 0 bids.

IMO, most players that don't have a house were going for Mediums and Larges instead of just going for a small first. That's their choice, but now they have to wait until the next time new wards are released.