Quote Originally Posted by Ayan_Calvesse View Post
Why would everyone not then flock to that new ward to bid? I would see in your notion that even those that currently own a small or a medium would ALSO bid against you in your new ward in hopes they can wrangle this new plot type.

In my experience just putting about 40 wards and ditching the workshop connection to housing would probably meet the supply of people actually using housing for living in. A lot of folks I notice tend to get a house...then realize they have zero desire to decorate it. Let alone will spend any time at their home because lets be real - most the playerbase gathers where they can get stuff done such as aetherytes.
I don't think there's that much general demand left to be met outside of Balmung and Mateus.

It's the size specific demand that isn't getting met and adding more wards won't fix that without creating new problems (such as leaving many currently full wards half empty as current small owners upgrade to medium/large).

I've met a lot of players who don't decorate when they first get their house not due to a lack of desire but from not knowing how to get started and a fear that they'll do it "wrong" somehow. I've had friends set me up as tenant in their new house to get me to decorate for them but I try to trick them into doing it with me so they get a feel for it. Most of the time they've taken over after I've helped get them through some basic decorating and demonstrated a few of the tricks.

As for getting stuff done, an aetheryte is not the place to do it lol. PF is far more useful than shout chat and PF can be accessed from any non-instanced area. Shout chat is limited to what's happening in that single zone.