(09-19-2014, 02:19 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: The bad thing about this though, is that they can't turn back time. I'm under the understanding that the personal housing areas take up *huge* amounts of memory on their datacenters. Which is why they have been increasing them rather slowly.There are a number of things they could do to address this.
Even if they changed the housing policy tomorrow, they can't just take them away from the people that already have them. So while the price issue could get fixed (with something like apartments), the problem of individuals snapping up all the smalls before an FC can get one doesn't go away.
- They could fix their crappy housing code so that it's not so much a problem -- this sounds like the path they're taking to be able to add so many new wards in 2.4
- They could use a "ward pool" that assigns new wards to servers on-demand as old wards fill up. This would let heavily populated servers have more wards, since the less populated servers frequently don't have many filled wards. They'd want to do something to make sure servers have a minimum number of wards, but this would help mitigate the problem.
- They could flag some small plots as FC-only, to allow FCs the opportunity to buy houses on new wards before they're snapped up by individuals.
- They could allow people to invite others into their inn rooms! A lot of people simply want to have a private space for RP, so this would allow for that.
