housing timer

It's been 3 days. 5 houses slipped past me.
Today I have been at it for 15 hours.
My back hurts, sleep is lacking, and people are rude.
I'M RUNNING OUT OF COFFEE TO INHALE.

I know the timer was put in cause of house flippers, but this is seriously cruel and unjust..
Please SE, there has to be a better way.
This is murdering me.

I don't know why a set timer that everyone can see wasn't the system they put in place. It would give everyone an equal chance to get a plot while also treating people equally by not letting someone who's been waiting for 12+ hours lose out to someone who just showed up at the placard five minutes before it unlocked.

How about, in place of a random timer, just place a public announcement in the chat window for plots available followed by a 1 hour bidding period like when you bid for items in a dungeon. Once a player bids the player is notified of the bid number also via chat window then at the end of the bidding period the winner is announced with the person's corresponding bid to all who joined the bidding, wherever they are ingame, again via chat window, and the person has 1 hour to claim the plot, otherwise the bidding will commence once again.

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Originally Posted by Satty

It's been 3 days. 5 houses slipped past me.
Today I have been at it for 15 hours.
My back hurts, sleep is lacking, and people are rude.
I'M RUNNING OUT OF COFFEE TO INHALE.

I know the timer was put in cause of house flippers, but this is seriously cruel and unjust..
Please SE, there has to be a better way.
This is murdering me.

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Take a break and get some rest, your health is more important and houses will pop up especially when the free server transfers are done and everyone has settled into their new server of choice.

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Originally Posted by MStowastiqVahlshdeh

Take a break and get some rest, your health is more important and houses will pop up especially when the free server transfers are done and everyone has settled into their new server of choice.

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You show more kindness to a stranger than SE gives to it's playerbase. Bless you kind soul.

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Originally Posted by MStowastiqVahlshdeh

Take a break and get some rest, your health is more important and houses will pop up especially when the free server transfers are done and everyone has settled into their new server of choice.

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But that just means there will be lots of empty plots ALL with random timers.

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Originally Posted by Redworthy

But that just means there will be lots of empty plots ALL with random timers.

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True, but with less competition.

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Originally Posted by ERMITANYO

How about, in place of a random timer, just place a public announcement in the chat window for plots available followed by a 1 hour bidding period like when you bid for items in a dungeon. Once a player bids the player is notified of the bid number also via chat window then at the end of the bidding period the winner is announced with the person's corresponding bid to all who joined the bidding, wherever they are ingame, again via chat window, and the person has 1 hour to claim the plot, otherwise the bidding will commence once again.

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You mean so only the wealthiest players have a chance to buy a house instead of giving all players the chance to buy as long as they have enough gil to make the purchase?

How about no. You sound like you work for a gil seller trying to increase business.

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Originally Posted by Redworthy

But that just means there will be lots of empty plots ALL with random timers.

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Once the free transfer period is over, anything still available will most likely already have had the timer expire so it's ready to purchase.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

You mean so only the wealthiest players have a chance to buy a house instead of giving all players the chance to buy as long as they have enough gil to make the purchase?

How about no. You sound like you work for a gil seller trying to increase business.

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Bidding like when you bid for items in a dungeon run, just a numerical value and not thru gil, once a player wins the bidding, he or she can now purchase the available plot according to its posted price. My apologies if my post was not on layman's terms, and No also i don't work for a gil seller.

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Originally Posted by ERMITANYO

Bidding like when you bid for items in a dungeon run, just a numerical value and not thru gil, once a player wins the bidding, he or she can now purchase the available plot according to its posted price. My apologies if my post was not on layman's terms, and No also i don't work for a gil seller.

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Maybe instead of that, more like a lottery system? You go to the placard, give the gil to buy it, there's a list of buyers and then by RNG one person buys it and everyone else gets their money back. Equal opportunity for everyone, it guarantees everyone has the gil to buy it and you don't risk your life clicking for 15 hours!

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Originally Posted by chizLemons

Maybe instead of that, more like a lottery system? You go to the placard, give the gil to buy it, there's a list of buyers and then by RNG one person buys it and everyone else gets their money back. Equal opportunity for everyone, it guarantees everyone has the gil to buy it and you don't risk your life clicking for 15 hours!

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This is more direct.

So I forgot how much time I wasted on this rubbish, but we didn't get it. instead someone who appeared for less than an hour did.
The other people who had been waiting 20+ hours with me were LIVID and started spewing venom at the person who got it.
This is literally a sh*tshow.
The housing system needs a massive rework.

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Originally Posted by Satty

So I forgot how much time I wasted on this rubbish, but we didn't get it. instead someone who appeared for less than an hour did.
The other people who had been waiting 20+ hours with me were LIVID and started spewing venom at the person who got it.
This is literally a sh*tshow.
The housing system needs a massive rework.

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May i suggest, well just for the time being to release the anxiety (besides having a cup of chamomile tea), get an apartment perhaps in shirogane to cut costs of porting as well, and decorate it as much as you like. You can now have lofts without the need for glitching, and you know apartments are not subject to auto demolition, and in an unfortunate event of an fc disband the room is safe.

Housing system is a pathetic joke which honestly SE deserves a class action lawsuit to have it changed ASAP. So far I've waited about 20 hours, mind you I am still waiting as i'm writing this to buy a fucking house. Places are open, they can be purchased, OH WAIT, RNG TIMER!

The gorilla who thought this system was a good idea needs to be fired and permanently prohibited from interacting with game development ever again.

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Originally Posted by Satty

but we didn't get it. instead someone who appeared for less than an hour did.
The other people who had been waiting 20+ hours with me were LIVID and started spewing venom at the person who got it.

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Why? It's not their fault... Like you said - it's the system. I hope those "spewing venom" get some temp bans.

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Originally Posted by Crystal_Raven

The gorilla who thought this system was a good idea needs to be fired and permanently prohibited from interacting with game development ever again.

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That would be your fellow players.

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Originally Posted by Satty

It's been 3 days. 5 houses slipped past me.
Today I have been at it for 15 hours.
My back hurts, sleep is lacking, and people are rude.
I'M RUNNING OUT OF COFFEE TO INHALE.

I know the timer was put in cause of house flippers, but this is seriously cruel and unjust..
Please SE, there has to be a better way.
This is murdering me.

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To overcome that problem believe the solution is to implement one in game system of selling and buying houses between the characters/players without have the time for the demolition.

For example such as one in game housing market, where two players agree to sell and buy one property (one property as a limit per player) under SE system rules.

Since there are so many plots per server the more logical upgrade for housing system would be the house market between characters/players, in game.

This buying between players is a terrible idea. It will just go back to “estate agent” time when ppl using multiple account to make Gil through housing.
A rng system is needed, however, I do not see why Dev take the RNG time instead of a less time wasting but equally fair pure lottery draw rng system

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Originally Posted by Misutoraru

This buying between players is a terrible idea. It will just go back to “estate agent” time when ppl using multiple account to make Gil through housing.
A rng system is needed, however, I do not see why Dev take the RNG time instead of a less time wasting but equally fair pure lottery draw rng system

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Not if SE set the price per house type and only allow one home to sell per SE account, unfortunately already happen in our server we have 1 player that owns 32 homes of various type which is unfair.

Helluuuuu I think my house is demolished

they implemented FC room which is kind of like instance housing, yet they still refuse to implement a proper instance housing system?
Apartment have very limited slot and space it will never be a solution for the housing issue. I knew housing is not on their priority list, however, the rng timer they come up with is just a very poor failure to fix another failure

Okay, what is a solution? The problem was people buying plots and reselling the option to demolish said plot. So we need an option to fix it if random timers isn't working.

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Originally Posted by AnnaRosa

Not if SE set the price per house type and only allow one home to sell per SE account, unfortunately already happen in our server we have 1 player that owns 32 homes of various type which is unfair.

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Yes, SE does need to just make a hard line stance right here and now that only one house and one apartment per account. But they would also need to make the provision that only the Leader of an FC can purchase a plot and can't own a personal house as well. This is so Guilds can't make multiple FC for the intent of purchasing multiple plots.