(09-16-2014, 04:20 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Because individuals and FCs are now pitted against each other for space, it's just going t make things harder for those FCs trying to come up with the money.It's not so much an issue with coming up with money as it is an issue with the way plots are sold.
When you look at a ward, you can see the free plots. You can't buy them. You have to run to them and hope they're free by the time you get there. On the morning the servers came up for 2.38, a friend of mine hit the wards to buy a plot for her FC. She had done her homework and had a priority-sorted list of plots, and started right when the servers came up. She tried 4 plots, but each was sold by the time she'd gotten to it. By the time she missed the 4th, the smalls were gone.
The larger issue, though, is simply the competition between a smaller number of FCs that want a plot and a large number of individuals that do. It was already a problem in 2.38 (which was surprising because no one knew they'd be so expensive until the night of the patch). For 2.4, *everyone* will have a month to save up for their house. I did some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and I'm predicting that a FC aiming for a small house is going to have something like a 10-20% chance of getting one in 2.4. This assumes they're there when the servers come up and know exactly what they're doing.
I'm in favor of personal housing, but the way they've managed things pretty much screws any small FC out of housing now.
