I forgot to log back on for a while as I was busy with work and other IRL issues and I did log back in-game a few days ago and now I've lost my house it seems! I checked the date on the e-mail that mentions a 10-day notice and it was issued on Feb. 25th and todat's Mar. 6th so that's 9 days right?
A person has taken the spot but their names in red, but when I talk to the NPC it seems to give me back my Gil from before I used it to purchase the place.
I'm still a little confused and I WISHED in-game you get mail to tell you about your house instead of e-mail address at times.
Regardless can I get my house back or did I lose it? I have no more inventory space left and I liked my small house. I really wished it as instances instead for housing at times.
Can I get my house back?
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03-07-2017, 01:44 AMVirusChrisCan I get my house back?
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03-07-2017, 01:49 AMRhuazie
If someone already bought that land, I'm afraid you've lost it.
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03-07-2017, 01:56 AMVirusChris
Garbage and I lose all of my Outdoor and Indoor stuff, right? Come on man... I HATE this system. >_>
Worst Housing System. -
03-07-2017, 02:00 AMLlusThere is an in-game notification under timers. But if you forgot to log in while busy with work and other IRL issues, then the in-game notification wouldn't have helped so email in those situations is the best.Quote:
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03-07-2017, 02:04 AMVirusChris
I don't usually check my e-mails that much.
Regardless all that hard work saving up for a house and adding ALL of the furniture for my house, including very hard to make Gaurda chair, I lost it all due to not checking the house. I really dislike this system. I have no room to retrieve my items AND I lost those Seasonal Furniture to boot.
Why did the FFXIV make housing like this? I guess I can get an apartment, but it won't be the same. I guess I can wait for the new housing area, but then what happens if I'm on vacation for more than 45 days? This was a poorly thought out system. -
03-07-2017, 02:11 AMDustytome
Here's how the system works. If your house was just auto-demolished then you still have 35 days to collect any furniture and gil from the resident caretaker npc that doesn't explode on removal.
45 day vacation? Can one of your butlers log in for you? :cool: I kid! As of now, if you don't walk into the house for 45 days you will lose it again. That's not an unreasonable amount of time to expect someone to sign in and step into the house when it's a limited resource. If you need those long periods of time where you don't sign in, apartments would be your best choice as the timer doesn't affect them.Quote:
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03-07-2017, 02:20 AMVirusChris
But not ALL furniture can be retrieved, right? It mentions only some Indoor and Outdoor ones you can. Sigh... where do I go to get Apartments? I'll miss my house and decorations I've gotten from everywhere in it, but I hate the timer system.
Also why are some names in red when I look up Wards? -
03-07-2017, 02:33 AMDustytome1. There's an apartment building in every ward/subdivision. There should be a teleport to The Topmast (Mist), Lily Hills (Lavender Beds) or The Sultana's Breath (Goblet). Go inside the building and talk to the npcs to purchase one. There's only 90 apartments per building, so if the one you're checking on is full then just head over to another ward (or try the subdivision).Quote:
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2. Only furniture that isn't the kind that is destroyed on removal (for example food items can't be picked back up) can be retrieved from the npc.
3. The houses labeled in red aren't open to guest access. They'll also show up as yellow house icons on the map. -
03-07-2017, 02:49 AMVirusChris
Thank you. I can decorate the Apartment like the house, right? Or is that even more limited?
Honestly I'm more afraid of buying a house in 4.0 if this system is still in place. They should've separate it into a marketing place after entering the ward and then another spot as an instance for players to go visit their houses and such. Or give us the ability to extend the timer as long as we can by paying with Gil (got to have some uses for it in-game).
I like owning my own place, but losing it because I didn't visited once within 45 days... it's too short and I have other things to do. Honestly what's the best housing system out there for all MMO's? -
03-07-2017, 02:58 AMDustytomeYes, I believe there's a 50 item limit for the apartments however and no outdoor space. You're also limited to growing things in flower pots which lack the ability to cross for different seeds. The expansion is supposed to double the item limit across all housing.Quote:
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There's a variety people like. Wildstar was one of my favorites because you had your own private house on a hover island, a huge item limit and absolute control over item placement/size/angle. The house doesn't get destroyed, but you have to keep up on reactivating certain features of your plot (for visitors). If the gameplay itself hadn't killed my hands and been more enjoyable I probably would have stuck with it. The crafting system on it was a bit of a messy rng dartboard too which was frustrating. I think most of the other mmos I've tried added housing after I had left. -
03-07-2017, 03:02 AMVirusChris
I see. Well I had 84 items in my house and I am to get them back somewhat... sadly my food items are gone which I think were the only ones that I lost. I had to check my Retainers inventory and clear out what I don't need. Right now finding an Apartment in the Mist is going to be a tricky to find as the 1st Ward is empty.
SE really needs to step up their game if they want Housing to be an amazing addition to it.
Also thank you very much Dustytome you have been incredibly helpful to me. -
03-07-2017, 04:26 AMBesame
Star Wars the Old republic allows you to keep 4x fortresses forever. Wild Star which is f2play now has the best housing set up.
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03-07-2017, 04:53 AMStormrider
Maybe one day housing will be instanced and tied to account. Then all paying customers can have the same experience and auto demo won't be an issue. Ha Ha Ha, who am I kidding. If SE truly cared about you the player base this would have been fixed during 3.0. They just plan to perpetuate the problem till at least 5.0 now probably.
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03-07-2017, 05:03 AMLunaxiaThere are 36 wards with a block of apartments in each division and subdivision, I'm sure you'll be fine.Quote:
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03-07-2017, 08:05 AMVirusChris
I managed to find out easily enough.
Though it's SO SMALL! I hate that I can put in all my decorations from my old home to the new Apartment.
Ugh... I really wish SE thought ahead when they made Housing. -
03-07-2017, 09:38 AMAcilith
Just a tip for you, if you ever get your gil back. Houses that expire go up on the market on the hour every hour.. possibly. As in, the last time someone went into their house, on that hour 45 days later, their house could possibly pop up for sale. So it's important to check each aetheryte crystal in the cities! I have gotten a few of my friends small houses this way on a server as busy as Balmung, you should be able to do it too. Ask a few friends for help if you need to, set one in each city and you'll find a house in no time. You're not the only person who's house went away.
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03-07-2017, 03:33 PMLexiaThey have made no mention of making any changes to the system when comes to reclaiming, so expect the system will stay the same unless they make some announcement about it closer to expansion release.Quote:
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03-08-2017, 02:03 AMZetsumei_Tsunarashi
I really hate seeing these posts.
I mean if you really cba to log in the game and walk into your house in a 45 day period of time, then you really don't deserve to have the house when there are so many people who will go to such lengths as taking off work just to log in right after a patch to buy new housing plots, or pay millions of gil over the actual cost of the land just to make someone give up their house and Then also pay the actual cost of the house as well.
This system has been in place for many months already, and again if you're really not keeping up with the game enough to even know how it works by now, then you have no one to blame but yourself. -
03-10-2017, 04:50 AMElany
I'm... so... confused...
Why would you want in-game notifications rather than emails if you didn't even log im during that period? That's the whole reason they send emails to you in the first place: because you're away from the game.
Either way, sorry to hear about you losing your house but that's just how the cookie crumbles. Houses are a limited resource and if you don't have time to play then it will become available to someone else.