Time limit?

Is there a time limit on how long I can keep a plot empty? We plan on buying 2 plots of land so one of the houses wont obstruct the view of the main house.

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Originally Posted by Ephier

Is there a time limit on how long I can keep a plot empty? We plan on buying 2 plots of land so one of the houses wont obstruct the view of the main house.

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Nope, the system for automatic relinquishing of land isn't implemented yet, so you'll be able to keep it empty for as long as you'd like until SE changes it.

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Originally Posted by Ephier

Is there a time limit on how long I can keep a plot empty? We plan on buying 2 plots of land so one of the houses wont obstruct the view of the main house.

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really with housing shortages as it is on some servers? I'm sorry but your a jerk if you acutely do this.

That's actually kind of funny when you think about it. You could make the message on the sign say "We bought this so no one else could have it." since people will probably look at the sign quite a bit to see if it's free or not.

I don't know about the population size of this server but it sounds like there might not be much of a land shortage at the moment if this is actually possible to do.

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Originally Posted by Dererk

really with housing shortages as it is on some servers? I'm sorry but your a jerk if you acutely do this.

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If I have the money to purchase the land, I can do as I please. There is no shortage of houses on my server, and even if there was, sorry.

Would be interesting if you could turn those areas into parks for people to enjoy the view of.

You shouldn't say you're sorry if you don't mean it, because it just makes you a bigger jerk. And "no shortages" is just relative to your demand, really.

I hope this is a troll topic.

I don't want to believe people like him exist.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

I hope this is a troll topic.

I don't want to believe people like him exist.

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Ehh, I'm lvling up an extra FC to rank 6 just so I can have 3 houses in Goblet right next to one another.. Plots 8, 11, and 12 are all medium size and make a nice little cul de sac when purchased together and make hell of a farm :P

If you ever move to Jenova, I'd be glad to sell you a plot for the right price.

Someone ought to burn your houses down.

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Originally Posted by Verdan

Someone ought to burn your houses down.

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Hey now, just because we can enjoy the affordable, spacious houses of the rural midwest, there's no reason to commit arson.

lol, people act like buying vacant plots on low population servers keeps people from buying plots on high population servers. Sorry guys, all the servers have exactly the same number of plots even with drastically different populations and demand. I haven't checked recently but I believe my own server has a lot of vacancies, at least in the Goblet. They haven't added any new plots in several months now. If there are any vacant plots at this point then the demand must be minimal.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

I hope this is a troll topic.

I don't want to believe people like him exist.

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I'd be more surprised if people like him didn't exist its still sickening.

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Originally Posted by Thalvaus

Would be interesting if you could turn those areas into parks for people to enjoy the view of.

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When I first got my house plot, I was quite annoyed at not being able to put up any outside furniture or decorations until a house was built. (After finally accumulating enough gil for the plot, it took a while before I could put together the additional gil to build on it. In the meantime, I was stuck looking at an incredibly expensive plot of land that I supposedly owned, but had no more rights to than if I didn't.)

Selfish, to say the least.

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Originally Posted by m3eansean

Selfish, to say the least.

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Yeah well, my parents bought their house IRL, the land on each side of their house and the lot behind them. It may be selfish but they PAY the taxes on the land and their house. They did this so no one else in their sub division could buy and build next to them or behind them. It is not your decision on how they spend their money. It also makes no difference to them what someone like you may think as THEY pay the taxes and keep the land looking natural and nice, not you. The same can be said here. If this guy has the cash more power to him and I support his decision. I would do this if I could as well in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

Oh so that's why you react so strongly to people committing obvious jerk moves. Just because someone can take an action, because they have the power to take an action, just not mean that action is justified or fair or commendable. Someone buying up videogame plots when they're in a limited supply is a dick move! Don't be a jerk about this stuff!

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Originally Posted by Verdan

Oh so that's why you react so strongly to people committing obvious jerk moves. Just because someone can take an action, because they have the power to take an action, just not mean that action is justified or fair or commendable. Someone buying up videogame plots when they're in a limited supply is a dick move! Don't be a jerk about this stuff!

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It's a QoL thing, if ya got the money, why not? As far as I'm concerned, housing is QoL, not a necessity in the game.
Should we all live in gray cubicles so nobody feels bad about not having a gigantic mansion?

Besides, in a game, the idea of equality is detrimental to the players.. You're basically making a game that has no metric for competition (let's not get into how pointless competition in games are) and that's what keeps the people going, playing more, trying to play better, grind for items/money etc. The competitive spirit keeps these games going.

Housing is a system in the game that you can make people not be able to access by buying up more plots than you need. This wouldn't be an issue at all if housing wasn't drastically limited, but here we are. It's jerk move to have lots of plots when people could use them.
And you completely avoided the real point in your competitive spirit thing. This shit don't matter, dawg, and if someone's kept interested by having the best house or the richest on the server they're just looking for motivation, desperately. Very little of this game is designed competitively, everyone even has their own gathering nodes.

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Originally Posted by Verdan

buying up more plots than you need

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Keyword, NEED.. Nobody NEEDS housing.. I gave mine up a month ago, haven't had the urge to buy another one yet.

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Originally Posted by Verdan

And you completely avoided the real point in your competitive spirit thing. This shit don't matter, dawg, and if someone's kept interested by having the best house or the richest on the server they're just looking for motivation, desperately. Very little of this game is designed competitively, everyone even has their own gathering nodes.

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Nope, you're missing my point.. As care bear, competition-less as FF14 is, the moment individual differences are taken out in the name of "equality", the game will cease to exist. Look at how many MMOs exist where there's no competition, everybody can have whatever they want at their fingertips, closest and quite possibly the only one I can think of is Second Life and I think you can agree that the crowd in that game is vastly different than the crowd in FF14.

I do agree with you on the artificial nature of people's motivation when they're trying to play the money game.. After all, you really don't need any more than 50million gil in this game, arguably even less.. But face it, this is a game. Everything each of us do here is artificially motivated, there's no tangible goal we're striving for. Sure, the game has better metrics of success for some aspects of the game over others, but at the end of the day, we're all just here to fulfill what our individual goals are. In some people's cases, that may involve buying up 2 houses and leaving one of them an empty plot.


I can tell you that one of my personal goals in the game that I've been working towards is to carve out a little neighborhood consisting of 3 or 5 houses.. I've been leveling up my second FC just to achieve this, almost at rank 6 then I'll move on to my third FC then I'll be ready to put it into action. Just need to find a nice empty ward. Fortunately for me this is not a deal breaker.. if I can't do it, I have other goals I have in mind but it's fun to work towards it.

LISTEN to you people! Are you going to whine next because some greedy evil rich individual player bought a house and your FC can't afford or find one? Will you push for FC housing to be based on square feet per member, with smaller companies relegated to smaller homes because "it's the fair thing to do"? Want to tell me next that I have to downsize my nice Palm Springs home because it might make someone feel bad that THEY can't afford it? Well, golly gee willies, Batman... welcome to LIFE! And ANYONE who things that FF XIV isn't competitively based has no grasp on either reality OR the gaming life.

"everyone even has their own gathering nodes"... sounds a lot like "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".

Hey op, you know what? Let me tell you something. You suck.


Why? Because you're not in my server or I'm not in yours because with all the hate you're getting here, I would've donated 10mil so that you can buy that land and we'll buy other plots that blocks the view of your house. Then we'll screenshot it and post it here because you know what? Do what you want and forget the haters here.