(09-17-2016, 03:26 PM)Syranelle Ironleaf Wrote: I don't see why they didn't just make housing instanced, like they did in LOTRO. Â When you filled up a Ward in LOTRO, another one spawned a few hours later. Â It would make sure that low pop servers didn't have a bunch of empty wards and high pop servers have all the wards they need. Â Everyone wins and resources aren't taxed upkeeping a bunch of empty instances on low pop servers that no one uses.
Even in LOTRO there is only a finite number of neighbourhoods (wards) possible. Large but finite.
A few years ago the larger servers did run out of the bigger house types for sale. Solution was to make people lose the houses after a time if they did not pay the weekly upkeep. (They also made it so you could pay for up to 6 months in advance.)
That freed up lots of houses that were owned by people who no longer played the game.
If they are clever with the coding an empty instance would take up a miniscule amount of resources.
