You DID decorate your house, right?

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Originally Posted by Eris249

Maybe if I would ever win a lottery I could decorate a house. Doesn't matter if you're the first bidder still loose 100% of the time.

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Not certain why you feel being the first to enter should improve your chances of winning when there are more players looking for a house than the number available.

Try waiting until close to the end of entry period to see which house has fewer entries then enter. It's still no guarantee but at least you'll have improved odds of winning.

I will, someday~! My partner and I are saving up gil together so we can try to win a small to live in together. ^-^

In the meantime, I have my cozy Shirogane apartment <3

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Not certain why you feel being the first to enter should improve your chances of winning when there are more players looking for a house than the number available.

Try waiting until close to the end of entry period to see which house has fewer entries then enter. It's still no guarantee but at least you'll have improved odds of winning.

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Nods… I can tell you of all the lottos I’ve been in, and I’ve lost count at this point, number 1 has won exactly once. lol in the beginning, I was usually first on my plot too, figuring it’s RNG, surely 1 is as good a number as any! But sadly, it hasn’t worked out for me, so now I avoid being first, only to lose the last lotto to that only number 1 winning bid ever! LOL I wish there were some kind of pattern, some kind of strategy, but there really isn’t. Just put in your bid and pray to RNGeezus.

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Originally Posted by -Magnai-

I will, someday~! My partner and I are saving up gil together so we can try to win a small to live in together. ^-^

In the meantime, I have my cozy Shirogane apartment <3

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Best of luck to you both! :)

Just wanted to say I loved how your quote goes with your character design! :)

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Best of luck to you both! :)

Just wanted to say I loved how your quote goes with your character design! :)

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Thank you~! And I'm happy you enjoy the quote ^-^

I love to deco and keep my fc and personal set up BUT, until you pay someone's sub perhaps keep your nose elsewhere. I am anxious to set up my Island sanc too :)

I know it seems like bid #1 never wins but I can confirm I was bid #1 on my large back in January, had only 5 total bids (lucky me) and ended up winning.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Not certain why you feel being the first to enter should improve your chances of winning when there are more players looking for a house than the number available.

Try waiting until close to the end of entry period to see which house has fewer entries then enter. It's still no guarantee but at least you'll have improved odds of winning.

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See how you like it every time losing when It's just you and another in the lottery for that plot. Maybe they should just do away with the housing all together.

Not Re-Decorating my place again untill the next expansion, it is not worth it, and they mentioned better item limit, for that my FC house is going to be a mess as it is now... and for that my Private house seems like am going to move out of it due to mess.

I find it hilarious how many people bought houses on Dynamis when our worlds opened, and how many immiediately went back up for sale 45 days later. Priceless. Honestly most of them were completely undecorated, and even my large/FC med remains one of the few fully decorated houses in the wards.

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Originally Posted by Archeron

I find it hilarious how many people bought houses on Dynamis when our worlds opened, and how many immiediately went back up for sale 45 days later. Priceless. Honestly most of them were completely undecorated, and even my large/FC med remains one of the few fully decorated houses in the wards.

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It takes time... and the casual Balmung or whatever player just goes back to the server he/she went from, as housing is not that interesting and exciting afterall.

In many cases it is the Fools Gold.

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Originally Posted by Themarvin

It takes time... and the casual Balmung or whatever player just goes back to the server he/she went from, as housing is not that interesting and exciting afterall.

In many cases it is the Fools Gold.

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It's been 6 months. That's more than enough time for all those undecorated houses to have had something done.

In some cases, it was someone buying up multiple FC houses with plans to create a mini-venue empire then finding out how much work that is so they gave up... while keeping the FC houses for the sub farms.

Just took this screenshot in a ward that was added in January. There are a handful of nicely decorated houses and that's about it. Some only have a couple of items in the yard and most of the open ones are completely empty inside. It's been a ghost town for months.

I know, I know... "PeOpLe CaN dO WhAteVeR tHeY wAnT WiTh tHeiR HoUseS"... But it's still depressing. :c

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen.../ghosttown.png

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

Just took this screenshot in a ward that was added in January. There are a handful of nicely decorated houses and that's about it. Some only have a couple of items in the yard and most of the open ones are completely empty inside. It's been a ghost town for months.

I know, I know... "PeOpLe CaN dO WhAteVeR tHeY wAnT WiTh tHeiR HoUseS"... But it's still depressing. :c

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen.../ghosttown.png

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If I had a chocobo house next door I'd be pretty annoyed too and probably wouldnt even bother to decorate, those houses are an absolute eyesore and ruin the entire vibe of a ward

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

If I had a chocobo house next door I'd be pretty annoyed too and probably wouldnt even bother to decorate, those houses are an absolute eyesore and ruin the entire vibe of a ward

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My Shiro house is next to a fully decorated Gingerbread cringefest but I still prefer it to the empty yards my FC house is surrounded with in the Mist, lol.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

My Shiro house is next to a fully decorated Gingerbread cringefest but I still prefer it to the empty yards my FC house is surrounded with in the Mist, lol.

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Honestly some people can sort of get past it I guess ? Personally once a house is surrounded by those ugly houses, namely Paissa,Gingerbread,Carbuncle,Chocobo, the entire vibe of the ward is just ruined because no matter how much you try and cover it up, it'll look like crap thanks to the neighbors next door, so I just barely bother if at all, there are like amazing wards full of shiro houses in shiro, and then there always has to be that one guy that wants to stand out and will put up a bright red carbuncle just to be "the one" to make it look bad, it just sucks really, but that's just my opinion and as I said a lot of people can just go past that

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Originally Posted by Batbrat

Well? You made a big fuss about needing one. Are you using it? Did you decorate it? If you didnt, may I ask why? It's been a while now since a lot of people won, but some in my ward still clearly havent touched theirs...bit sad to walk out and see new houses rotting already..

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I decorated my house:
https://i.imgur.com/kpMbDmH.jpg

My apartment:
https://i.imgur.com/pF6Bfgy.jpg

And my FC Private chambers:
https://i.imgur.com/XjF9s2P.jpg

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

Honestly some people can sort of get past it I guess ? Personally once a house is surrounded by those ugly houses, namely Paissa,Gingerbread,Carbuncle,Chocobo, the entire vibe of the ward is just ruined because no matter how much you try and cover it up, it'll look like crap thanks to the neighbors next door, so I just barely bother if at all, there are like amazing wards full of shiro houses in shiro, and then there always has to be that one guy that wants to stand out and will put up a bright red carbuncle just to be "the one" to make it look bad, it just sucks really, but that's just my opinion and as I said a lot of people can just go past that

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Never realised those skins got to people so much. You have defo made me want to change to gingerbread house now :)

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

Honestly some people can sort of get past it I guess ? Personally once a house is surrounded by those ugly houses, namely Paissa,Gingerbread,Carbuncle,Chocobo, the entire vibe of the ward is just ruined because no matter how much you try and cover it up, it'll look like crap thanks to the neighbors next door, so I just barely bother if at all, there are like amazing wards full of shiro houses in shiro, and then there always has to be that one guy that wants to stand out and will put up a bright red carbuncle just to be "the one" to make it look bad, it just sucks really, but that's just my opinion and as I said a lot of people can just go past that

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Some bug me more than others. lol I actually like the chocobo house, and the Moogle one doesn’t look bad in LB. Our FC house is the Carbuncle house but I play SMN so how can I not love Carbys? :) And we have a jumping puzzle created by a couple of the FC officers so we can get on the roof!

My pet peeve is the 5 zillion Shiro Castle houses (not the new onsen, that’s cute!) in LB. They’re so tall they block the views of anyone they’re next to, sometimes even the plot above them! And I kinda hate the gingerbread house too. lol Most of the plots I prefer tend to be spaced nicely enough from their neighbors that it’s not really an issue though.

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Originally Posted by Erinellza

I know, I know... "PeOpLe CaN dO WhAteVeR tHeY wAnT WiTh tHeiR HoUseS"... But it's still depressing. :c

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It's what happens with a system that promotes FOMO, presumed prestige and financial gain.

Players buy to get a house while they can even if they don't actually want it yet. They don't want to be locked out once they do want one.

Players buy the best they can get (or multiple) to boast they have something others don't.

Players buy multiple for the financial gains the workshop and gardens offer. The workshop might be expensive to start up but it doesn't take long for it to generate enough profits to over shadow that initial expense.

And then there are those who buy to gain real life profit from those desperate to get what others have. While it's not the huge problem it was in the past thanks to the lottery, it still has an impact.