Petition for Instanced housing

[Stormpeaks]

No amount of more wards is going to "fix" the housing scarcity. Do you realize how many players play this game?

A better solution is to keep the current ward system but make it into a premium feature while they introduced instanced houses for players to purchase so they can use all of the furnishes theyve acquired playing the game.

Theres no reason to gatekeep a simple basic feature in an MMO just to fuel your ego.

I like how you talk about my ego when my solution literally gives at the very least a small house to everybody that wants one.

Good attempt though.

And yes, instanced is terrible, it won't happen and I'm more than happy for that, deal with it.

[Avoidy]

I agree. And with the cloud server testing, it makes me hope that we might actually get either that or some kind of dynamically expanding ward system soon, since they keep talking about how the cloud servers can expand to meet the needs of their population. Scalability, baby!

When people stop obsessing over homes, there are a lot of unintended benefits for everyone. No more shortage means no more demolition system (unless cbu3 goes full greed mode and just keeps it in), which means no more bitter jaded people hanging around just to log into their house and maintain it. It also means far fewer people making solo FCs for home ownership. Might still get some doing it for the subs, but that's a big time commitment and most people realize that gil's pretty worthless anyway. On the cloud test server, there're more than enough homes for everyone and it's only a week, so nobody cares about homes. This, combined with there being only 2 servers and an actual need to stick together to make queues pop, has led to a kind of free company renaissance. The one I'm in now has over 200 people in it and it grows every day. Back on my main server, nearly everyone I know is just in a solo fc for a house.

I rambled a bit, and housing isn't entirely to blame for the death of large scale free companies (dc travel also did it a blow, same with world travel tbh, and cwlses being better communication tools, etc etc etc) but instanced housing or just housing so abundant that nobody feels a shortage helps literally everyone and there's no real reason to be against it imo. That said, if you visit the housing section on this site you'll find plenty of people who are against any form of addressing housing shortages simply because they suffered in the past and now they want others to suffer too. They're brain damaged. They are not okay.