Fix the Housing!!!

I am so sick and tired of this lottery system for housing. I have now bid on over 75 houses and haven't won a single one. That is bidding every period when a house even becomes available. No one should have to wait until someone stops playing and the house get repossessed to even have a chance to bid on one. Almost every single house I've ever bid on has been against at least 30 other people.....that is at most a 3% chance to win and is just plain unacceptable.

This has been an ongoing issue for years and it doesn't look to be resolved any time soon sadly. Your only choices for now are to keep trying to win a plot or move to Dynamis (not Seraph, as housing there is just as bad now) or create/move an alt in Dynamis and get a plot there until your main wins theirs. I did that when Seraph went live and eventually my main in Exodus won her plot after trying for 7 years last June.


If you haven't yet, try getting an apartment for now as well or a FC room if you're in a FC that has their own plot of housing. Instance housing would help solve this issue but I dunno if it will ever be utilized in this game but they should add it. Your Island Sanctuary is the closest we have to instance housing and it allows you to decorate it with outside furnishings (90 slots max). I personally want Island Sanctuary to be turned into instanced housing.

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Originally Posted by Pariahdenar

I am so sick and tired of this lottery system for housing. I have now bid on over 75 houses and haven't won a single one. That is bidding every period when a house even becomes available. No one should have to wait until someone stops playing and the house get repossessed to even have a chance to bid on one. Almost every single house I've ever bid on has been against at least 30 other people.....that is at most a 3% chance to win and is just plain unacceptable.

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I feel you love. Trust me, i really 100% do, and i tried 187 times before i finally got my medium on my ALT... not my main, MY ALT... <.<

Hey, square. Can we get rid of the demolition timer and add back first come first serve?

Seriously though, Go for the smalls, Worry about upgrading later. Let the picky people be picky. Take what they aint gonna bit on and that way.You have a leg up on them.

My first plot on excalibur was in the mist because Shiro was selling out rapidly an on the cusp of crashing, so I went to the Mist to look where the demand wasn't so high.

Eventually I found a random plot out in the lavender beds(not a fan of lB), brought it until I found a better plot, which the plot next to my private eventually was vacated and I moved it there.

Take anything until the option for something better.Comes along rather than being picky.And get what you can get your hands on, do whatever you can to increase your chances rather then wait on a company that has a financial investment in leaving the system the way it is.

Get your foot in the door then worry about everything afterward

I do have a room in a large FC house and my island sanctuary, (not getting into how you have to have a crafter at 90 or spend a good chunk of gil buying the island glamours) Every cycle on my server there is maybe 2-3 houses that become available and it is almost always the smalls. I can't even get a better than 2-3% chance of winning one. I have better odds of getting my Rathalos mount in a chest.(got 22 of the scale+, and don't even get my started the amount of times I killed Shinryu and Suzaku lol, so many totems.)

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Originally Posted by Pariahdenar

I do have a room in a large FC house and my island sanctuary, (not getting into how you have to have a crafter at 90 or spend a good chunk of gil buying the island glamours) Every cycle on my server there is maybe 2-3 houses that become available and it is almost always the smalls. I can't even get a better than 2-3% chance of winning one. I have better odds of getting my Rathalos mount in a chest.(got 22 of the scale+, and don't even get my started the amount of times I killed Shinryu and Suzaku lol, so many totems.)

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Ah, I see the issue. You have no idea what you're doing and, instead of doing the tiniest bit of research and hedging your bets, you've come to cry on the forums.

There are currently 10 houses available on your server. 11 total, but 1 is FC only. The lowest number of bids on 1 is 13, right before the lottery ends. That gives you a 7% chance if you bid on that one, Ward 21, Plot 9, in the Empyreum.

Getting a house, on any server, is trivally easy, even when not using the FC method. You haven't lost 75 bids. You've made 75 uninformed decisions that lead to you wasting your time.

Literal skill issue.

I am not so sure Stuff like this is a good way to test skills... There really should be instanced housing

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Originally Posted by Eastwall

I am not so sure Stuff like this is a good way to test skills... There really should be instanced housing

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agreed. Enough with this shitty ''WARDS'' sure i get it, it's a way to engage with your neighbour, but 9/10 times said neighbours avoid you or do their own house stuff.

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Originally Posted by Yuniko

agreed. Enough with this shitty ''WARDS'' sure i get it, it's a way to engage with your neighbour, but 9/10 times said neighbours avoid you or do their own house stuff.

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Alot of players complain about the homogenized state of the game, asking for more of it isn't the answer.

You don't visit my ward because there's no reason for you to be out here. There's no content that incentives you to spend time in the wards. If you are in the wards , you are there for a personal reason.

Just like I don't visit your ward.Because there's no reason for me to be out there,. Someone in a different thread should that they never got responses in their message book, so I went to check out their plot. It didn't seem like their house was out in that ward.However looking at the surrounding plots. She'll fcs brought most.of the ward ( You know the ones the players hate buying up the plots they themselves won't take?

If they want to plot that badly they will do what is needed to get one.. Not looking for the ideal spot but the spots with the least competition and then worry about what the ideal location once you secure a plot