While I agree the prices are a little too high, I don't think it's totally unachievable. If an FC bands together and saves concertedly for an FC house, I think it can be done. It just requires more than "a few" people doing their best to grind coin and donate it to their FC.
This is actually somewhat similar to Aion's housing dilemma. While they didn't have legion housing, personal housing prices on the higher end were pretty outrageous. My RP legion spent months in advance (3 or so) doing nothing but grinding for money. It wasn't terribly fun, but it was rewarding in the end. I really pulled my own weight by eventually donating something like 600 million Kinah to my legion, combined with all the other donations to make about 1.5 billion. This was when having over 100 million Kinah personally was exceptionally rare and pretty much reserved only for the super hardcore players.
I do think it shouldn't be easy, and I'm kind of relieved that no one seems to have the coin saved up already to afford it. It's something you need to work for, together, cooperatively, to afford... and people need to be selfless. If your FC's desires are in line with your own, it shouldn't be hard to coordinate. One thing I'd recommend is incentivizing donations. For instance, if you are or you know an artist, and someone donates 50k Gil, make/buy them a little doodle. If they do 100k, make/buy them a sketch. If they donate 250k, get them some nicer art. If they donate 500k, professional art. 1 million? Well, you get the idea. Really anything you have that can incentivize donations... use it.
I think it does fall on a FC leader to organize this sort of thing and ensure that FC goals are in line with the wants and needs of the individual members of the FC. Obviously you don't want to require a fee, but you do want to do something so you're not all on your lonesome for saving up. It will take work. Which, in my opinion, is a good thing. I'd actually be a little concerned if RP FCs, which in general are a little lighter in numbers and active gameplay, could already afford FC housing.
This is actually somewhat similar to Aion's housing dilemma. While they didn't have legion housing, personal housing prices on the higher end were pretty outrageous. My RP legion spent months in advance (3 or so) doing nothing but grinding for money. It wasn't terribly fun, but it was rewarding in the end. I really pulled my own weight by eventually donating something like 600 million Kinah to my legion, combined with all the other donations to make about 1.5 billion. This was when having over 100 million Kinah personally was exceptionally rare and pretty much reserved only for the super hardcore players.
I do think it shouldn't be easy, and I'm kind of relieved that no one seems to have the coin saved up already to afford it. It's something you need to work for, together, cooperatively, to afford... and people need to be selfless. If your FC's desires are in line with your own, it shouldn't be hard to coordinate. One thing I'd recommend is incentivizing donations. For instance, if you are or you know an artist, and someone donates 50k Gil, make/buy them a little doodle. If they do 100k, make/buy them a sketch. If they donate 250k, get them some nicer art. If they donate 500k, professional art. 1 million? Well, you get the idea. Really anything you have that can incentivize donations... use it.
I think it does fall on a FC leader to organize this sort of thing and ensure that FC goals are in line with the wants and needs of the individual members of the FC. Obviously you don't want to require a fee, but you do want to do something so you're not all on your lonesome for saving up. It will take work. Which, in my opinion, is a good thing. I'd actually be a little concerned if RP FCs, which in general are a little lighter in numbers and active gameplay, could already afford FC housing.
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