It's time to add more wards to housing

[DamianFatale]

It is time to add more wards to housing. Without even adding an entire new housing district, if they just doubled the amount of wards in game, it would make a huge difference. I understand that testing, and time is needed to add such a large amount. I can deal with that. A new district would be a welcome additional space addition, but they could develop that later, and just focus on making more space with what they already have.

They should make it a priority to add new waves of housing space each patch if they are going to keep relying on this aging system. I'm not saying no to instanced housing, this is not an argument for instanced housing, so please keep that out of this thread. This is a suggestion to improve the systems we already have. They should be adding wards every single major patch cycle, and the fact that it has been so long since they have done that is sloppy, and a bit of an insult to the player base that has been complaining about housing for so long.

I understand that they are upgrading the graphics, and probably really short on managing space as it is with the upcoming expansion, but it would be really cool if Dawntrail added more housing space with every patch, or perhaps during the off season between expansions as a kind gesture to get the player base ready. There's no excuse other than the space on the data centers being the limiting factor. They should still be working on it, and getting it done though. This is arguably one of the most complained about things in the fandom.

[Supersnow845]

Each ward holds a lot of server space, they can’t just add them Willy Nilly every patch and expect to still have enough server space to do anything, there has to be a limit

This is to say nothing of with the exceptions of a few worlds on aether and behemoth most servers have plenty of free plots right now because so many people are giving up their house to take long breaks

Honestly this is probably the worst time in recent memory to add more housing

[DamianFatale]

Each ward holds a lot of server space, they can’t just add them Willy Nilly every patch and expect to still have enough server space to do anything, there has to be a limit

This is to say nothing of with the exceptions of a few worlds on aether and behemoth most servers have plenty of free plots right now because so many people are giving up their house to take long breaks

Honestly this is probably the worst time in recent memory to add more housing

It's time to upgrade the servers like they have been doing. One of the focuses NEEDS to be on the datacenter housing limits.

[Jeeqbit]

They already did that previously. They added the concept of subdivisions, which are clones of all the wards. Then they added new housing areas over time as well, such as Empyreum and Shirogane.

The problem was that within the first few minutes of release, all of them were taken, because the demand was that high that it still wasn't even close to enough. Back then, we didn't have the lottery system though.

[Stormpeaks]

You're playing on Balmung, the world with the highest population in the game, and complaining that there's not many houses.

Dynamis is wide open, you can get a house in a single round.

[Ascended_Demon]

You're playing on Balmung, the world with the highest population in the game

This is wrong. Balmung is saturated with off world visitors, characters who CANNOT own a plot. Balmung is actually one of the lesser populated NA worlds due to the fact that it is almost always classed as congested preventing new characters from being made on it or transferring in.

[DamianFatale]

This is wrong. Balmung is saturated with off world visitors, characters who CANNOT own a plot. Balmung is actually one of the lesser populated NA worlds due to the fact that it is almost always classed as congested preventing new characters from being made on it or transferring in.

This is not true. Balmung is full regardless of world visit or not. You sound like someone who was never around Balmung before world visit, or data center travel. We have a server culture of our own.

[Ascended_Demon]

This is not true. Balmung is full regardless of world visit or not. You sound like someone who was never around Balmung before world visit, or data center travel. We have a server culture of our own.

Ok and? Small worlds can have a culture too. Maybe look at the actual numbers of characters on your world. Before Dynamis your world was the NA server with the lowest population at around 300k characters. Actually if anything having less people makes having a culture easier. And you're also a legacy world so...probably have more people around who were grandfathered into the whole being allowed to own more than one private plot.

[LianaThorne]

Ok and? Small worlds can have a culture too. Maybe look at the actual numbers of characters on your world. Before Dynamis your world was the NA server with the lowest population at around 300k characters. Actually if anything having less people makes having a culture easier. And you're also a legacy world so...probably have more people around who were grandfathered into the whole being allowed to own more than one private plot.

Tell that to Dyna who can't even develop a culture since DC travel became a thing.

[DamianFatale]

Ok and? Small worlds can have a culture too. Maybe look at the actual numbers of characters on your world. Before Dynamis your world was the NA server with the lowest population at around 300k characters. Actually if anything having less people makes having a culture easier. And you're also a legacy world so...probably have more people around who were grandfathered into the whole being allowed to own more than one private plot.

That isn't actually true though. We have always been the most popular. Typical Balmung visitors not knowing anything, and assuming our culture for us.