Random. It was made like this to prevent reselling of plots.
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I don't know how things are on Jenova, but did you run by any of the properties to see if people were camping it? It could be that they're just open due to them recently being vacated recently.
On Balmung, we have at least 35 spots free (didn't get through counting Shiro/2nd page of Uldah), but each of them is camped waiting for that timer to end. The housing here is essentially as good as gone.
Honestly other then Shirogane, on Faerie there's quite a few houses still up.
Not sure why everyone avoided Goblet, I quite love the area my medium is in and have for months. Now I just need neighbors other then the large FC.
did a quick tour 'round mally and there are FAR more houses open than i anticipated. (i didn't check shiro bc teleport fee lmao) but a few days before, the newer wards we're practically full there.
and this is coming from a medium pop server where there are almost always people around... definitely not dead/obscure. but maybe housing isn't as important on my server than it is on others idk. :v
Leviathan has plots open. We're the second largest active player server behind Balmung (which also has plots open). Honestly if you haven't gotten a plot by now, it's on you.
Shiro full ? Cant wait to see my neighbours :D
Oh please. If this is what you mean by "open plots" then sure, there's a small handful.
https://my.mixtape.moe/ezvniw.jpg
And yeah it's on me that the lobby system crashed when I signed in at 10.00am exactly, booting me (and god knows how many others) out of the game and forcing me to come back to a queue and server that was already bought up.
There are still open plots on Balmung though. Seems to only be in the Goblet and Mist but i didn't check EVERY ward. however they are all on timers. It sucks the game booted you, It really is :( but if you want a house bad enough I think people will wait out the timers.