It's time to add more wards to 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.

[DamianFatale]

They added instanced housing back in Heavensward. It's called apartments.

What they need to do is improve and enhance instanced housing to make it more desireable. The mention of "housing mirage" during the patch note reading on the 2nd sounds promising when it comes to partially solving demand for medium and large houses. It would be nice if that also extended to apartments.

Laughable at best. Apartments are still limited, and mostly full on the majority of wards in our worlds. We need people to realize that this is NOT a solution to the housing problems unless more wards are added. Otherwise they are just as full and bloated as the rest of the system.

[Oizen]

If you say so lmao, I know many people who have gotten mediums on dyna, some in 1 or 2 rounds, and shiro mediums or at the very least mist.

Your thinking and negativity is how people dont get houses because they dont even try.

Yeah me. I have a medium on Dynamis, got it in a 1 out of 1 bid in the very first housing lottery. That was a year ago.
I would not however tell someone to move to dynamis for a sub 10% chance at getting a desirable house.

Then why even bid if you're going to have that mindset ?

Because gil is largely worthless outside of housing? Its not effort to do go up to a house and click bid.

[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.

[Hasrat]

tbf though about 10 wards are still locked out from the players on dynamis and its been a year.

Plus four more worlds with their associated housing still yet to be added.

There's kinda zero percent chance they add anything more to housing until/unless those start getting adequately full. There's no reason to add more housing to all worlds if players keep demonstrating that they only want to fill out on a select few worlds leaving others vacant. The housing "scarcity" is an intentional method to distribute player populations easing server loads.

And y'know what, let's be real here, excessively adding more housing was a mistake that has led to the proliferation of the shitty "club" PFs and /shout advertisers.

I'd rather have players complaining about a lack of housing over all that /shout spam any day. >__>

[Avoidy]

Won't do it. Keeping housing scarce on worlds where people actually care about owning a home makes it valuable and makes you less likely to quit the game because you won't wanna lose something scarce just because you were gone a couple of months. It all ties together really nicely. The game doesn't have to spend money on more space, AND they get to preserve this toxic manipulative system that keeps people subbing even when they don't want to play. Best part is, CBU3 will never have to defend it; they have people here who'll happily do that for them, for free. Cheers!

[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.

[Yodada]

Players from Balmung complaining about Housing. Find the error

[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.