I managed to relocate my FC estate from a mansion in Mist to an cottage in Shirogane.

So yeah.. Today when SE opened up plot purchasing for individuals, I was excited to finally buy a small little house for myself.

After about 10 minutes of error 1016, the plot I had logged out in front of gets bought in front of me, and I dash to my alternative plots in same ward, but they also get bought in front of me..

No biggie, I dash over to Goblet and grab a small plot from there which I had considered as an back up in-case I dont get an plot in Shirogane.

Then I hear in my linkshell that there were some small plots available in shirogane, so I dash over there with plan to relocate my goblet plot to Shirogane..

And to my horror, after noticing, that I managed to relocate my FC estate from an mansion plot in Mist to the shirogane small plot..

So im stuck with the shame of this act, and hope that in future, SE would enable an feature to reverse such an decision (like 30 minutes? aren't the relocated plots locked an hour) in case an mistake is done.

If you have the funds relocate back. It's locked for now for new purchases but someone else could relocate.

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Originally Posted by Yukimitsu

hope that in future, SE would enable an feature to reverse such an decision (like 30 minutes? aren't the relocated plots locked an hour) in case an mistake is done.

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Sorry to hear of your misfortune :S

Relinquished plots are locked for new purchases for an unspecified period of time (random), but relocations have no such restriction and can buy them straight away so quite likely wouldn't be anything left to reverse.

The only restriction relocations have is that you can only relocate once every 5 minutes.

Well, I only had 19 million gil in hand, because I only had in mind of buying an small plot and begin furnishing it..

And not causing this sort of disaster.

But because of Odin's population, that plot is long gone, think it was bought the moment it came off from locked status.

Ouch. :( My sympathies, that's a rough accident to make in the early morning.

Since this damage is done let me try my best to help you fix it by saying: I have reason to believe that one of the mansions in ward 2 will become available not to long from now - the FC it belongs to seems pretty dead by now and unless that changes within the next two weeks or so, the mansion should go back up for sale. So I'd keep an eye on that if I were you! Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Vidu

Since this damage is done let me try my best to help you fix it by saying: I have reason to believe that one of the mansions in ward 2 will become available not to long from now - the FC it belongs to seems pretty dead by now and unless that changes within the next two weeks or so, the mansion should go back up for sale. So I'd keep an eye on that if I were you! Good luck!

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Ah, thanks for the information, we'll certainly be looking out for the mansion then in Mist around that time. Working my rear off right now making as much gil as possible, ideally to pay off the relocation price myself.

Funny. How did you manage to not see at least two popup windows asking you to chose "yes" or "no" and one of them had discount information based on your old house? Imagine if there was a popup window asking you if you want to blown up your house... now there would be no one to start this topic. :D

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Originally Posted by Madbunny

Funny. How did you manage to not see at least two popup windows asking you to chose "yes" or "no" and one of them had discount information based on your old house? Imagine if there was a popup window asking you if you want to blown up your house... now there would be no one to start this topic. :D

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First time I ever actually handled with houses... And Shirogane plots were going left and right, like.. that one plot that sent our mansion to it, had 3 other people right by it as well, looking at it..

So mix of stress, panic and fat finger...

Im sorry for your loss.. but same time, Ill have to admit. Im laughing. Cause I mean rushing and choosing "Free Company Relocation" >.<

Man these housing wars are getting crazy in the land of Shiro. Meanwhile us Goblet folk are chillin. ^^

Tho real advice.. next housing thing. Plan ahead of time... have someone around with you to scout and look out, etc. Planning makes everything much more smooth.

At least it was free.

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Originally Posted by Mysticales

Im sorry for your loss.. but same time, Ill have to admit. Im laughing. Cause I mean rushing and choosing "Free Company Relocation" >.<

Man these housing wars are getting crazy in the land of Shiro. Meanwhile us Goblet folk are chillin. ^^

Tho real advice.. next housing thing. Plan ahead of time... have someone around with you to scout and look out, etc. Planning makes everything much more smooth.

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I had planned ahead but because of severe error 1016 after servers came on (about 10 minutes worth), the plot I had logged out in front of was bought in front of my eyes.
But I've never, ever dealt with the housing purchasing and relocation UI... so it was completely foreign and ended up doing this because of my inexperience with it.

Ah ok!

Yea that sucks.
One thing I did to help my new timers prep was those type of advice. Which menu option to use. Using the /busy tag in case of trade spam prevention, Be quick to login, live chat to track server status, and have extra money on hand in case SE had decided to "reset" the de-eval prices..

I lost my first choice house back when the new wards opened up, because I was absolutely paranoid of relocating the FC house. Why did they make those options so close???

For those who don't know what it looks like. The drop-down menu is like this

Purchase for private Individual
Purchase for Free Comapny
Relocate for Private Individual
Relocate for Free Company

When you transferred to the cottage was there a refund or was the cost just zero? I am curious.

when you relocate, you pay 30% of the MINIMUM price of the plot you're moving to. what you paid for the house you're moving out of has no bearing on the current plot.

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Originally Posted by killstein

when you relocate, you pay 30% of the MINIMUM price of the plot you're moving to. what you paid for the house you're moving out of has no bearing on the current plot.

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When you relocate you pay the plot price minus 30% of the minimum price of the house you currently own/ are moving from. So, relocating from any mansion to any small would cost you no gil. (Minimum plot price of a grade 5 mansion is 19,840,000. 30% of that is 5,952,000. Most expensive small is 3,750,000. So, worst large to best small the server still owes you 2,202,000 gil.)

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Originally Posted by Flashgordon1975

When you transferred to the cottage was there a refund or was the cost just zero? I am curious.

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From the announcement about Shirogane and relocation.
"In the event reimbursement for the old plot exceeds the price of the destination plot, the cost of relocation will be waived. Please note, however, you will not receive gil for the amount that exceeds the cost of the destination plot."
So, it should have just been free with no refund.

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Originally Posted by killstein

when you relocate, you pay 30% of the MINIMUM price of the plot you're moving to. what you paid for the house you're moving out of has no bearing on the current plot.

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When you relocate, you save 30% of the minimum purchase price of the plot your are relocating from. So, depending on the mansion’s plot grade, it could be 30% of 20~24 million gil that you save.

Here’s the list of the minimum devaluation for all mansions, with the 30% you will save in parentheses:
—Fifth Class: 19,840,000 (5,952,000)
—Fourth Class: 21,080,000 (6,324,000)
—Third Class: 22,320,000 (6,696,000)
—Second Class: 23,560,000 (7,068,000)
—First Class: 24,800,000 (7,440,000)

duly noted. i guess i never realised bc i always upgraded/moved to same size plot... lel at least it was free :p

Yeah, sorry to hear that.

Our FC leader disabled FC relocation right as soon as we secured a mansion because we have no tangible reason to relocate.

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Originally Posted by Big_Panda

Yeah, sorry to hear that.

Our FC leader disabled FC relocation right as soon as we secured a mansion because we have no tangible reason to relocate.

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I had no idea you could do that! I know what I'll be checking on when I get home. It always freaks me out having that option show up.

Meh, well this just gives me another reason to hate myself.

Is there a way to leave a note for mods to lock the thread?

In my fc I have the ability to relocate the house, but I got it disabled right before the housing rush to prevent this very problem if I were to move my personal. Sucks to hear what happened to you. :(

I prohibited FC members from relocating the moment we got a house. I figured since I paid for it they have to deal with the house I picked. I also lock the ability to demolish the workshop. Why are these even options?

Oh, another thing I remembered! One of my buddies tried to trnasfer his house the other day and it wouldn't let him due to all the shit he had in his house's storage. So you could also fill up your FC's house storage will all sorts of junk. Then no one can relocate it.

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Originally Posted by Mysticales

Meanwhile us Goblet folk are chillin. ^^

Tho real advice.. next housing thing. Plan ahead of time... have someone around with you to scout and look out, etc. Planning makes everything much more smooth.

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I agree with both. My FC and personal house are both located in Goblet and even now on Cerberus there is tons of small houses (especially in Goblet). Hardly because of random timers as i dont see anyone waiting in front of them and Cerberus isnt low population server, well at least this is the feeling i have.

Based on what other said there is quite few servers with decent amount of unsold plots. Now for anyone who is located on server where all plots are sold - transfer.

I knew this would happen to someone and the reason i checked to make sure my fc was locked down lol

We had kind of the opposite happen with our fc house. Got to one of the dream shiro plots, but due to being tired and the options being new, someone transferred their personal plot over instead. We luckily had enough gil in the fc coffers to fix the issue/ensure they got their personal plot back, but with everything going on during a housing frenzy it's not hard to mess up.

Serious question, did you get any gil out of it? No way the small should have been more than 30% of the mansion.

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Originally Posted by Alyanna_Elingval

Serious question, did you get any gil out of it? No way the small should have been more than 30% of the mansion.

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It's a discount, you don't get anything that goes over the price tag.

This shouldn't happen with all of the prompts and clearly labelled buttons. How can you click on relocate Free Company and then ignore the warning... i mean it displays the estate address you want to use to relocate as well.

And if one of your company members accidentally bought themselves a shirogane mansion, they wont mind giving it up later for you to relocate, unless they bought it on purpose which is highly likely.

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Originally Posted by Final-Fantasy

This shouldn't happen with all of the prompts and clearly labelled buttons. How can you click on relocate Free Company and then ignore the warning... i mean it displays the estate address you want to use to relocate as well.

And if one of your company members accidentally bought themselves a shirogane mansion, they wont mind giving it up later for you to relocate, unless they bought it on purpose which is highly likely.

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You would be surprised what lack of sleep and overexcitement can do to a person, leave it to SE to open up wards early in the morning... My condolences for you OP, you should be able to relocate back if you have the gil.

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Originally Posted by Big_Panda

Yeah, sorry to hear that.

Our FC leader disabled FC relocation right as soon as we secured a mansion because we have no tangible reason to relocate.

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By disable do you mean there's an actual function to turn that off? Or does that mean just removing the permissions from ranks?

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Originally Posted by PrincessAlice

You would be surprised what lack of sleep and overexcitement can do to a person, leave it to SE to open up wards early in the morning... My condolences for you OP, you should be able to relocate back if you have the gil.




By disable do you mean there's an actual function to turn that off? Or does that mean just removing the permissions from ranks?

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Never owned a house before, was stressed to get an shirogane plot after I was informed there was one open, other people arriving at the plot made me misclick on relocation of my own estate (which I obtained a minute earlier in Goblet) and the free company estate.
Didn't have the gil in hand to get the plot back, so it's probably gone for good unless SE adds more wards.

Friend and I run our FC, and when we were relocating our personals a few weeks back we specifically took away our own FC relocation privileges (and she even promoted her alt to FC leader and temporarily demoted herself! Since as the technical FC leader she couldn't take that permission from herself) just to prevent relocating our FC Shiro mansion to the lots we were going for. We felt silly and paranoid at the time but seeing it happen to people just tells me it was the right call.

I'm sorry about your mansion, though!

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Originally Posted by Yukimitsu

Never owned a house before, was stressed to get an shirogane plot after I was informed there was one open, other people arriving at the plot made me misclick on relocation of my own estate (which I obtained a minute earlier in Goblet) and the free company estate.

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Wait... Did you just say that you got a house in Goblet few minutes before you made a mistake and instead of your house you relocated the FC house? Did i got this right? Because if this is true then i dont feel sorry for you. Instead of be happy to get any house, once you got one you quickly become greedy and start chasing "a better position".

Ninja edit: Why did you rush or panic if you already had a house? Why you didnt just go to sleep if tired once you got a house in Goblet instead of chasing a better position?

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Originally Posted by Madbunny

Wait... Did you just say that you got a house in Goblet few minutes before you made a mistake and instead of your house you relocated the FC house? Did i got this right? Because if this is true then i dont feel sorry for you. Instead of be happy to get any house, once you got one you quickly become greedy and start chasing "a better position".

Ninja edit: Why did you rush or panic if you already had a house? Why you didnt just go to sleep if tired once you got a house in Goblet instead of chasing a better position?

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I know a couple people who have bought a "throwaway" small plot in order to obtain another plot they wanted, using relocation to bypass the timer on their desired plot. Since the "throwaway" plots are already devalued, they save a little bit of money too. 5-6m for a small plot this way, I believe.

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Originally Posted by PrincessAlice

I know a couple people who have bought a "throwaway" small plot...

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In other words they went to extent to f**k up other players so they can satisfy their greed, because their plot what is left now have a random timer.

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Originally Posted by Madbunny

Wait... Did you just say that you got a house in Goblet few minutes before you made a mistake and instead of your house you relocated the FC house? Did i got this right? Because if this is true then i dont feel sorry for you. Instead of be happy to get any house, once you got one you quickly become greedy and start chasing "a better position".

Ninja edit: Why did you rush or panic if you already had a house? Why you didnt just go to sleep if tired once you got a house in Goblet instead of chasing a better position?

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As I understand the story, she was trying to buy a house in Shirogane, she thought they sold out so she bought a house in Goblet. Someone then told her there was a house still available in Shirogane, so she tried to relocate her house there and never having been a house owner before made a misclick and moved the wrong house. To go from "settling" to learning that you can get what you wanted but thought you'd have to wait and chase can cause anyone to be a bit on edge. I feel really bad for her.

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Originally Posted by Madbunny

In other words they went to extent to f**k up other players so they can satisfy their greed, because their plot what is left now have a random timer.

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I wouldn't call trying to go back to plan A after you already implemented plan B being greedy.

They should of made it so you can only buy one house within an amount of time. That way we don't have people grabbing one in one area then running to relocate to a new making it so other players can't buy the original

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Originally Posted by AkumaHomura

They should of made it so you can only buy one house within an amount of time. That way we don't have people grabbing one in one area then running to relocate to a new making it so other players can't buy the original

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They sort of have. There's a cooldown on relocation, you can only buy/relocate once every 5 minutes. I mean that's still 12 an hour, but if anyone actually did that, it's a lot of wasted money!