This is not the last feature of change to the wards, there will be a three step system to make changes over the next year, this is simply the first.
No matter what your opinion will be, this will do something, though I think it will be a small change because as much as people complain about empty houses, I rarely if ever see these "empty" houses. Â This will either cause players to return, or houses to be up for sale later this year, and either of those things would be a good thing.
Some things to consider that you have already discussed:
~Not all FC leaders are power and money hungry monsters!
~There are houses up for sale (nearly all the time), and the market is inflated yes, but everything on Balmung is inflated (including egos and personalities...#RPServer)
~There are ways of making a lot of money among FC members, and so the costs of most of the houses I am seeing be sold, aren't so far out of the range of reasonable as to gripe about it. (Though I agree, they should be sold not far over the original amount myself, some of those you buy from are selling for what they paid themselves!)
~If your FC is an RPFC and has no money, this may be a signal to actually play the game to make money to get the house you really want
Some amendments to the above, I am an FC leader, an RPFC who has a small amount of members, but we make sure from the start that those members value game play as well as role play, and in the very short time that we have been together, we have generated tons of rank and money together, without even being very vigilant about it. Â If your FC cannot do this, it is time to rethink your priorities in the game, and place value in game play, so that in the future making money is much easier and faster.
Some Cash-Raising Ideas:
~Dungeon Spams for rare items, schedule revolving among your group
~Look to your crafters, if they can make things, or have a real desire to craft, invest time and money in them so as to get a return that will help the entire group
~Sell everything! Make a week, or some times of the week, where everyone agrees to sell all their useless items, and donate that money to the FC
~Daily/Weekly/Monthly donations to the FC chest, make a minimum for all members of the FC to donate after a certain amount of time, not too much though!
~Le Gasp...throw an RP event with donations...we are groups of RPers after all, do something simple, and invite friends, and LSs, if you don't have many of those...back to the drawing board!
And so on, these are just a few of the easier ideas, but they would each probably manage to help you raise a good bit of money for your own house. Â I cannot tell you, as someone who values FFXIV as a game and a mode of Roleplay, how frustrating it is to have people who do not care to contribute to a group through gameplay as well as RP. Â This is a game, and should you be joining with others to accomplish goals, be sure that you can handle the level of their goals, and be a contributing member, instead of a leech who "just feels like RPing", because it is not in anyway unreasonable for your FC, or hell, even your friends in general IG, to expect some amount of FFXIV gameplay out of you from time to time.
If you didn't like this change, wait for the nest two! Â You will probably manage to hate those as well! Â In the coming months, to a year we will also be getting:
2. Moving and Trading Housing, so we sort of heard about the Ishgard housing transfer system, they said that this will be phase 2, and include proper trading of housing to other players as well as transfer from one place to another, or it was implied as such, not given a whole lot of detail
3. Add New Wards, this will be the last step in the process, and they have been stating that both new wards will be added and/or Ishgardian wards will be added, so it is a toss up on what they decide to include in this last step. Â The time frame they gave was a year or more for this last step to take place. Â So there is a wait for this last step certainly.
To check the above information, please refer to the Gamescon 2015 interview!
Now...let us go talk about Halloween stuff, because they are basically loading us up with junk we all absolutely need!
No matter what your opinion will be, this will do something, though I think it will be a small change because as much as people complain about empty houses, I rarely if ever see these "empty" houses. Â This will either cause players to return, or houses to be up for sale later this year, and either of those things would be a good thing.
Some things to consider that you have already discussed:
~Not all FC leaders are power and money hungry monsters!
~There are houses up for sale (nearly all the time), and the market is inflated yes, but everything on Balmung is inflated (including egos and personalities...#RPServer)
~There are ways of making a lot of money among FC members, and so the costs of most of the houses I am seeing be sold, aren't so far out of the range of reasonable as to gripe about it. (Though I agree, they should be sold not far over the original amount myself, some of those you buy from are selling for what they paid themselves!)
~If your FC is an RPFC and has no money, this may be a signal to actually play the game to make money to get the house you really want
Some amendments to the above, I am an FC leader, an RPFC who has a small amount of members, but we make sure from the start that those members value game play as well as role play, and in the very short time that we have been together, we have generated tons of rank and money together, without even being very vigilant about it. Â If your FC cannot do this, it is time to rethink your priorities in the game, and place value in game play, so that in the future making money is much easier and faster.
Some Cash-Raising Ideas:
~Dungeon Spams for rare items, schedule revolving among your group
~Look to your crafters, if they can make things, or have a real desire to craft, invest time and money in them so as to get a return that will help the entire group
~Sell everything! Make a week, or some times of the week, where everyone agrees to sell all their useless items, and donate that money to the FC
~Daily/Weekly/Monthly donations to the FC chest, make a minimum for all members of the FC to donate after a certain amount of time, not too much though!
~Le Gasp...throw an RP event with donations...we are groups of RPers after all, do something simple, and invite friends, and LSs, if you don't have many of those...back to the drawing board!
And so on, these are just a few of the easier ideas, but they would each probably manage to help you raise a good bit of money for your own house. Â I cannot tell you, as someone who values FFXIV as a game and a mode of Roleplay, how frustrating it is to have people who do not care to contribute to a group through gameplay as well as RP. Â This is a game, and should you be joining with others to accomplish goals, be sure that you can handle the level of their goals, and be a contributing member, instead of a leech who "just feels like RPing", because it is not in anyway unreasonable for your FC, or hell, even your friends in general IG, to expect some amount of FFXIV gameplay out of you from time to time.
If you didn't like this change, wait for the nest two! Â You will probably manage to hate those as well! Â In the coming months, to a year we will also be getting:
2. Moving and Trading Housing, so we sort of heard about the Ishgard housing transfer system, they said that this will be phase 2, and include proper trading of housing to other players as well as transfer from one place to another, or it was implied as such, not given a whole lot of detail
3. Add New Wards, this will be the last step in the process, and they have been stating that both new wards will be added and/or Ishgardian wards will be added, so it is a toss up on what they decide to include in this last step. Â The time frame they gave was a year or more for this last step to take place. Â So there is a wait for this last step certainly.
To check the above information, please refer to the Gamescon 2015 interview!
Now...let us go talk about Halloween stuff, because they are basically loading us up with junk we all absolutely need!
