A simple answer to make the game have more ACTIVE MSQ / 24 Man RAIDS in HOUSE CRISIS.

How you could of SOLVED IT ::rolleyes:
MAKING PLAYER PLAY THE GAME:D

The housing crisis could of been solved via the RAID SYSTEM & MSQ Duty.
If you play the game, then you took a chance.:o

During 24 player raids.
A chance item allowing anyone the ability to purchase a tier of "House Purchasing Permission Slip" has a 5% chance to drop.

Small houses need : 1 Purchasing Slips
Medium houses need : 2 Purchasing Slips
Large houses need : 3 Purchasing Slips

There is only 1 of them that will appear for completing the Last boss of any 24 player raid we made. This is the only way to buy a "PLOT" of land on your "SERVERS".

This item is NEED / GREED COMPETITION.
Best of Luck to those who play together, to win the "RANDOM" loot roll.

All 24 raids have this chance.
Not just the new raids.
If the raid is UNDERSIZED/UNSYNCED it will never drop.

Best of Luck.

This would of brought life back into the "24 player Raiding System" at all levels.:confused:

Even by this forums standards this is a pretty bad idea.

No, its not a bad answer. If you quit the RAID, you forefit your chance at earning a purchase slip.

It would turn housing into: A RELIC SYSTEM.
This is the answer it needed.

Then you can't cry, wolf or complain if you can't win by not playing the game.

Except this becomes completely irrelevant after the first day because everyone would have been spamming raids and got the housing slips. Then you have people who run it once and get a slip, while others run it 20 times and have nothing to show for their work - I'm sure no one will complain about that.

THEN we have Sally. Sally doesn't want a house but won a housing slip. Sally sells her housing slip for 200m and we're right back where we started but with everyone being even more pissed off at SE for making them run raids for no reason.

Then it will simply lock out majority of the player base, especially casual players like me, who mainly enjoy socializing and other non-raid associated contents. To my understanding, people who enjoys raid content actually don't really care about housing and casual contents. Furthermore, Yoshi P stated during SB release that he wanted FFXIV be a MMORPG where players can freely enjoy without having to participate in the hardcore raiding mindset. in addition that players are encouraged to take breaks from the game should they find the patch content not to their liking.

I'm in your same shoes Amomomo. I play like you. But i rather have a chance BY DROP, then none at all. Then a simple, I login, I click, its mine.

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Originally Posted by Tellciel

I'm in your same shoes Amomomo. I play like you. But i rather have a chance BY DROP, then none at all. Then a simple, I login, I click, its mine.

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Until you run the raid 20 times, finally get the drop, OH I'M GETTING A HOUSE SO EXCITING, so you run to the housing ward only to realise they've all been taken.

You then come to the forums to complain how terrible, bad and broken this design is. You probably throw about 3-4 'I'm cancelling my sub!' cries and write a thread about how housing should be done.

Meanwhile Sally is buying up all the minions and mounts she wanted because Sally has 200m.

Assume: Heh, i never unsubed to this game btw. Or FFXI

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Originally Posted by Tellciel

Assume: Heh, i never unsubed to this game btw. Or FFXI

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The 'Cancel your sub' bit went over your head, didn't it?

That's not a relic system. That's utter rng. Relic is grind based. I ran the ARF twice, I got an Umbrite for my anima. With this system I could give up my life and grind for hundreds of hours for absolutely nothing, while someone else runs one raid, wins the drop, and *boom*, house.

Rng has never been my friend, I'm sorry this is a terrible idea as others have said. I could however see them adding rare housing items to the last bosses chest that would be cool. Im one of theen lucky ones who woke up 2 hours early and spammed the loggin button when the servers came up and got a house tho so I'm not in that situation. Plus helps to be on a lower pop server.

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Originally Posted by Tellciel

How you could of SOLVED IT ::rolleyes:
MAKING PLAYER PLAY THE GAME:D

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Players have to play the game to be able to meet the prerequisites to buy a house anyway. FFXIV doesn't have an issue with players not playing enough. Seems you're trying to fix an additional issue that doesn't even exist.

Also your suggestion literally ignores the real housing problem: there aren't enough houses. What would happen if a player won a housing slip after all the plots are taken?

I don't know why people think lottery is fair. Lottery by definition is not fair. You win purely based on participation and luck, not because you deserve the winnings.