Housing Timer why x.x

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Originally Posted by Arazehl

Owning more then one personal house is unfair and selfish! Give me a good reason why a player would need more than one personal house?

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I have personally seen an FC that has a total of 4 houses set specifically for RP puposes here on Balmung.

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Originally Posted by disturbedcobra

I have personally seen an FC that has a total of 4 houses set specifically for RP puposes here on Balmung.

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Which to me isn't fair to others looking for just one house for their FC. Players in this FC can use their own personal house for RP, rather than tying up several houses. I wish FC's houses had their own residential city and leave personal houses in their own residential area.

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Originally Posted by Baxcel

The way to fix the lack of housing is to reset an refund every house.. With the new rules of 1 house per account, they should be removing the houses of those that have bought multiple or are controlling entire districts.

Refund all housing costs and send like 3m gil like they're currently offering to all players with houses.. They can then buy a new house once the timers are up and there will be more open options for other players because it's 1 per account instead of an entire instance per one player.

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This just doesn't make sense, but to only stir the pot so to speak.

I agree something needs to change. This is the most broken thing I have seen by SE and it is brutal for those without a house. There is not enough information out there. It is absolutely pure RNG and having 4 friends scouting out houses, taking shifts, we still have not managed to secure a single house among us. It is unfair to those on the wrong side of the data center changes. I was on Diabolos and wanted to stay in Primal so I switched to Lamia. There was no effort on SE's part to help aid the transition to find houses. Sure, a base 3m gil which is nowhere near compensatory enough for the struggle of actually finding a house in a new server, which we hadn't planned in the first place until they decided to make the data center changes. If no lottery, at the very least there should be something a little more periodic like "you get x chances per hour" or "every hour <or some time increment>, the house has a chance of becoming purchasable" at least allowing the player to check back after every hour change. The way the system works now is absolutely terrible and drains the heck out of everyone's day, rapidly clicking prompts when not needed and giving to the possibility of not paying attention at the "correct" time when it does become purchasable. I spent the better part of yesterday staking out multiple plots, only to lose every single one to bad luck RNG. It's a waste of time and there is absolutely no guarantee that the large exertion of effort will yield any success, which is not true to the theme of FFXIV. This absolutely should change in some way in future updates. Trying to maintain awareness, for an all-out up-to-24-hour marathon of house procurement is not fun and not fair. It breaks player spirits. This is such a poor start to the data center changes.

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Originally Posted by Thamorian

You are suggesting, and I quote:

You would lose your house too without a guarantee you would get another. If you wanna give up your house for someone else to have a chance at it, you go right on ahead. Don't suggest your stupid idea on the rest of us.

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Yeah, I'd gladly give mine up so people would lose the houses they got from cheating the system. Any decent person would do the same, because it helps other players at sticks it to those who abused the system for their own personal gain.

Giving up mine an maybe not getting a new house would be fine too.. Square is going keep adding housing districts in-game an i would get one eventually again maybe, even a better size. But until they do something to fix the issue with people owning multiple houses, it's going to be a problem and it needs to be addressed in a way that fixes it

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Originally Posted by Baxcel

Yeah, I'd gladly give mine up so people would lose the houses they got from cheating the system. Any decent person would do the same, because it helps other players at sticks it to those who abused the system for their own personal gain.

Giving up mine an maybe not getting a new house would be fine too.. Square is going keep adding housing districts in-game an i would get one eventually again maybe, even a better size. But until they do something to fix the issue with people owning multiple houses, it's going to be a problem and it needs to be addressed in a way that fixes it

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Why not do something way easier and that way people who rightfully own their house won't have to lose it and go through repurchasing. SE can do the research and look at accounts of plot purchases and those with multiple houses or FC housing that have a slight variation to the FC name on each house. Then make a solid decision to take back those to make everyone on equal footing as they should have been from the start.

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Originally Posted by Arazehl

Owning more then one personal house is unfair and selfish! Give me a good reason why a player would need more than one personal house?

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I'm not arguing for people owning more than 1 house. I'm arguing against the idiotic notion that SE should reset ALL housing which would mostly effect people who only own one house, since they are the majority of house owners in this game.

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Originally Posted by Baxcel

Yeah, I'd gladly give mine up so people would lose the houses they got from cheating the system. Any decent person would do the same, because it helps other players at sticks it to those who abused the system for their own personal gain.

Giving up mine an maybe not getting a new house would be fine too.. Square is going keep adding housing districts in-game an i would get one eventually again maybe, even a better size. But until they do something to fix the issue with people owning multiple houses, it's going to be a problem and it needs to be addressed in a way that fixes it

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Then you go ahead and go demolish your house right now. I mean it, right now, go to placard and demolish your house. None of us will be joining your idiot idea. Some of use like our current housing plots and don't want to trade it for another because of such a stupid idea as punishing everyone because of a few we have no control over.

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Originally Posted by Roseinda

I moved to Coeurl this morning and have been at this exact same house for 12 hours straight, unable to buy. I literally went to work and came back and it still was unbuyable. Im starting to feel like Squenix doesn\\'t want Indifferen players to have their own houses x.x

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That time must be correct because have been doing house census for the past month everyday at the same exact hour in order to try and figure out that so called "random timer" and the majority of the houses are sold in less than 24 hours or 24 hours.

This system is a poor band-aid for ill planned idea.
and yes, in the same boat, moved server, lost my house and now trying for a new one. After a 4h click-o-rama someone else got the house i was trying. but the worst is seeing "someone else" still clicking the placard 30 min after the plot was purchased and the house built

botting much?

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Originally Posted by rd77

This system is a poor band-aid for ill planned idea.
and yes, in the same boat, moved server, lost my house and now trying for a new one. After a 4h click-o-rama someone else got the house i was trying. but the worst is seeing "someone else" still clicking the placard 30 min after the plot was purchased and the house built

botting much?

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To be expected. SE is inadvertently encouraging botting to get these houses. If it can take up to 24 hours for a house to unlock, some people who really really really want a house can't be there for a whole 24 hours so they revert to botting.