A lot of houses just auto demolished

PSA for anyone who is looking for a house. A bunch of them just auto demolished on the NA data-centers since its been 45 days since auto demolition was turned back on.

Good luck to everyone aiming for a house.

is a rumor going around that the auto reclaim timer is glitched again. As far as I know it's a rumor and plots opening is just coincidence but I'm not gonna take any chances lol

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Originally Posted by Bluvirus

is a rumor going around that the auto reclaim timer is glitched again. As far as I know it's a rumor and plots opening is just coincidence but I'm not gonna take any chances lol

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The easiest way to avoid this glitch is apparently to enter and exit the house using the door or interact with one of the NPCs in the house.

You can confirm under Duty -> Timers -> Estate whether the auto demolition timer is getting closer though.

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Originally Posted by Bluvirus

is a rumor going around that the auto reclaim timer is glitched again. As far as I know it's a rumor and plots opening is just coincidence but I'm not gonna take any chances lol

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Plots are opening today are not a glitch. It was expected since the demo timer was reactivated back on April 23rd and today is the 45th day.

The rumor was no doubt started to deter people from trying to buy a house so there would be less competition.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

The rumor was no doubt started to deter people from trying to buy a house so there would be less competition.

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Not a rumor, just an unfortunate coincidence. I know somone who got a timer notice despite the fact they use their house often.

As someone said enter your house and interact with things to ward off the glitch.

So excited to see all of them gone by the time I get home from work.

Good thing i use the shower stand, before logging out by dozing off on the bed.

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Originally Posted by Keridwyn

Not a rumor, just an unfortunate coincidence. I know somone who got a timer notice despite the fact they use their house often.

As someone said enter your house and interact with things to ward off the glitch.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

So excited to see all of them gone by the time I get home from work.

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I know right?
Checked 50ish today, about 10 hours after auto demolition would have kicked in, and not one was purchasable, and quite a few had people camping, including one I knew people reported for botting before.

I gave up after a few hours. I have to work tonight and I'm confident that they'll all be gone by the time I get home, and even if not, I'd have to repeat this process of checking every plot again and praying.

I have better things to do in my life than camp houses that is just basically "You have to keep paying us to keep your subscription to keep your house."

I could train Siberian tigers. I could learn another language. I could learn to fix broken cars and make enough money to buy a real house. I could learn to program Unreal Engine and make my own game with houses and use Final Fantasy Assets, and just not publish the game to the public.

...yeah I'm a little salty over this demo timer, point is, if it's discouraging people that want to buy a house to buy a house in the first place, it probably isn't doing it's job very effectively.

Already been to the 100 plus plots on Excalibur and none ready to buy. :(

I stoped playing way more than 45 days ago, just got an email last week about my house being demolished. So, the feature prolly wasn't working and is now working. The date coincides with the time limit they gave me to log back in.

maybe 6monthish of not being subed maybe more. That date is to coincidental.

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Originally Posted by Blue_Myu

I know right?
Checked 50ish today, about 10 hours after auto demolition would have kicked in, and not one was purchasable, and quite a few had people camping, including one I knew people reported for botting before.

I gave up after a few hours. I have to work tonight and I'm confident that they'll all be gone by the time I get home, and even if not, I'd have to repeat this process of checking every plot again and praying.

I have better things to do in my life than camp houses that is just basically "You have to keep paying us to keep your subscription to keep your house."

I could train Siberian tigers. I could learn another language. I could learn to fix broken cars and make enough money to buy a real house. I could learn to program Unreal Engine and make my own game with houses and use Final Fantasy Assets, and just not publish the game to the public.

...yeah I'm a little salty over this demo timer, point is, if it's discouraging people that want to buy a house to buy a house in the first place, it probably isn't doing it's job very effectively.

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Yeah. Two nights ago I sat by a plot for 3 hours and someone came by and transferred their existing house.

Then last night when I got home, I found another plot that was unavailable to purchase. Went downstairs for dinner and by the time I got back, it was gone too.

Then finally, found a third plot last night in Goblet that I sat by for 4 hours before I had to go to sleep. It was gone when I woke up this morning.

You reap what you sow.

I think I may just saw screw it on the housing until they change the way the system works. Even with all these plots available, playing the guessing game / clicking non stop placards is not fun gameplay. I feel like I'm working and not playing a game, which is sort of messed up as this is supposed to be something you do for fun.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Yeah. Two nights ago I sat by a plot for 3 hours and someone came by and transferred their existing house.

Then last night when I got home, I found another plot that was unavailable to purchase. Went downstairs for dinner and by the time I got back, it was gone too.

Then finally, found a third plot last night in Goblet that I sat by for 4 hours before I had to go to sleep. It was gone when I woke up this morning.

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Lost one plot when me and a friend both had to AFK at the same time for less than 5 minutes (each)

Camped another plot for 14 hours with a friend before we had to go to bed, a person transferred there overnight. A lalafel admitted to using a script the entire time.

Friend started using the buying house script and got their house with it while they afked for 15 minutes to eat.
They encouraged me to use it. I didn't want to, but apparently nobody's been getting banned for using it from what I've seen. As I've said, there's been a person that I knew was botting that is botting even to this day to get one of the now many available plots.

It's discouraging when botters get away with botting and take houses, and if you don't want to bot, you could wait MORE than 14 hours.

Now the one day many are available, the majority are not purchasable after (roughly) 10-12 hours of being available (Assuming they came up at about the time maintenance normally ends) and those with lives kind of have to live their lives.
I guess it's a sign that if you don't have the time to camp a house, you probably shouldn't get one anyways, because it isn't worth staying subscribed to FF forever just to keep your house.

Maybe there's hope then if most are still unavailable right now. I get off work in 20 minutes.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

Maybe there's hope then if most are still unavailable right now. I get off work in 20 minutes.

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Yeah most are still unavailable. You should be good just choose something in a subdivision and camp it out. (and pray). Preferably in an undesired district like goblet.

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Btw does anyone know if all the small plots start out at 3,750,000?

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Originally Posted by supergiz

Btw does anyone know if all the small plots start out at 3,750,000?

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Price is determined by size and class. 3,750,000 is a first-class small plot. A fifth-class starts at just 3,000,000.

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Originally Posted by Layhe

Price is determined by size and class. 3,750,000 is a first-class small plot. A fifth-class starts at just 3,000,000.

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Thank you. That is very helpful. My strat was to camp one of the 100 open plots that is in worst location in goblet. Then this guy start clicking on it with me ugh. Moved to another one not dealing with that when there are so many available.

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Originally Posted by supergiz

Thank you. That is very helpful. My strat was to camp one of the 100 open plots that is in worst location in goblet. Then this guy start clicking on it with me ugh. Moved to another one not dealing with that when there are so many available.

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Good strategy. Once you have a house (any house) you can relocate and by-pass the housing timer.

Could technically not camp since there are so many and just click on them once to see if timer has worn off since many plots have depreciated a few times at this point.

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Originally Posted by Losara

Good strategy. Once you have a house (any house) you can relocate and by-pass the housing timer.

Could technically not camp since there are so many and just click on them once to see if timer has worn off since many plots have depreciated a few times at this point.

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Yeah every so often i go around checking them all that way as well.

Seeing sprouts whether alts or truly new players, strengthens my stand on requesting/lobbying for a form of an improved apartment system, with a bigger floor area possibly as wide as the 1st floor of a large estate, with an instanced balcony that allows gardening. So that new players can have some form of private housing, that is a little on par with that of plotted houses. Untill such time that they have that rare opportunity to own a plotted house.

(If SE stands by their decision to maintain the housing districts as a form of rare commodity.)

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Originally Posted by Bluvirus

is a rumor going around that the auto reclaim timer is glitched again. As far as I know it's a rumor and plots opening is just coincidence but I'm not gonna take any chances lol

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The same glitch as last time that wasn't actually a glitch?

I got a house and feel as though there should be, until the system is fixed, a ticker as a reminder. 45 days from today, the next wave. I lost 2 houses before I managed to win at the third. It wasn't fun, but I only managed because there were so many and the sting of losing hurt a lot less.

I've been trying for 6 hours today. I'm about to lose it.

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Originally Posted by Gula

I got a house and feel as though there should be, until the system is fixed, a ticker as a reminder. 45 days from today, the next wave. I lost 2 houses before I managed to win at the third. It wasn't fun, but I only managed because there were so many and the sting of losing hurt a lot less.

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Are you talking about a reminder to not lose your house? if personal housing, if you don't step foot in the house for 30 days, there will be a notification in game. After 35 days an email goes to your registered email address. After 42 days another is sent. At 45 you lose the house. If it's a FC house, the emails go to EVERYONE in the FC. So you get plenty of notification to not lose your house.

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Originally Posted by Layhe

Are you talking about a reminder to not lose your house? if personal housing, if you don't step foot in the house for 30 days, there will be a notification in game. After 35 days an email goes to your registered email address. After 42 days another is sent. At 45 you lose the house. If it's a FC house, the emails go to EVERYONE in the FC. So you get plenty of notification to not lose your house.

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No I mean as something to tick down the next housing wave for buyers. Not much use on lower populated worlds, but on on higher pop- it's kind of a bigger deal. I know how the housing system works.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I've been trying for 6 hours today. I'm about to lose it.

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I have a friend that was at it for 15 hours before she got the house. Best of luck to you and everyone else still trying! ♥

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Originally Posted by Gula

No I mean as something to tick down the next housing wave for buyers. Not much use on lower populated worlds, but on on higher pop- it's kind of a bigger deal. I know how the housing system works.

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There won't be another large round of demolitions like this until 45 days after the timer gets restarted from being paused again. (Hopefully not for a few years at least since it's only paused for multiple really bad disasters on the NA side.)

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Originally Posted by Blue_Myu

I got home and checked a bunch and managed to find one out of sheer luck after checking out various plots. It's not the ideal location, but the fact that I have one now alone makes me go "Woo"

...It doesn't mean I'll ever still approve of this housing system mind you.

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BEST QUOTE FROM TONIGHT!!!

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I've been trying for 6 hours today. I'm about to lose it.

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I got home and checked a bunch and managed to find one out of sheer luck after checking out various plots. It's not the ideal location, but the fact that I have one now alone makes me go "Woo"

...It doesn't mean I'll ever still approve of this housing system mind you.

Don't stay in just one plot, warp to multiple plot locations, just stay for about 15 mins click spamming the placard then move again, untill you get back to where you first started.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I've been trying for 6 hours today. I'm about to lose it.

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I've been trying for 6 hours today. I'm about to lose it.

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I've been at it for 12 hours today so far. I feel your pain. I'm basically hoping between 4 of the worse lots in the game hoping nobody else gets them first and the timers run out soon.

I picked the most expensive plot with one of the preferred locations and which no one was camping. People tend to want to save a few hundred thousand gil competing with players and bots. So I camped it for about 5 hours solo and now I'm finally a home owner on a legacy server.

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Originally Posted by Nolagamer

I picked the most expensive plot with one of the preferred locations and which no one was camping. People tend to want to save a few hundred thousand gil competing with players and bots. So I camped it for about 5 hours solo and now I'm finally a home owner on a legacy server.

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Congrats on getting a home. Now for the fun part decorating!

Yeah I'm done with this BS. Spent all day 16 hours total trying to get house today and nothing. Now there are multiple people per lot again. Heading to sleep as it's not worth messing up my sleep schedule / health over this stuff.

Don't even want a house anymore. With this kind of system no way they are going to improve anything with housing anyways since they know most people can't get it.

Un freaking believable spending 16 hours clicking on signs with over 100 houses available and nothing. This random timer can burn in a dumpster fire.

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Originally Posted by supergiz

Yeah I'm done with this BS. Spent all day 16 hours total trying to get house today and nothing. Now there are multiple people per lot again. Heading to sleep as it's not worth messing up my sleep schedule / health over this stuff.

Don't even want a house anymore. With this kind of system no way they are going to improve anything with housing anyways since they know most people can't get it.

Un freaking believable spending 16 hours clicking on signs with over 100 houses available and nothing. This random timer can burn in a dumpster fire.

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You would have been out of luck without the random timer. Every thing would have been purchased within a few minutes of the demos happening.

As long as supply is much lower than demand, this is going to be a problem.

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Originally Posted by Blue_Myu

I got home and checked a bunch and managed to find one out of sheer luck after checking out various plots. It's not the ideal location, but the fact that I have one now alone makes me go "Woo"

...It doesn't mean I'll ever still approve of this housing system mind you.

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I finally got one after a total of about 8 hours yesterday (plus a total of 7 hours earlier in the week at other random plots for a grand total of about 15 hours).

I had about 8 different Gridania plots I was cycling between, some plots free in different wards. I did randomly (and quite often) check the other three cities throughout the night too.

Right before I was about to give up and go to bed (around 2 a.m.) I found probably the worst Mist plot was available so I bought it up, and then transferred to one I wanted in Lavender Beds. The upside is I got one of the locations I wanted while the downside is that I had to pay almost double to get it.

But, thankfully it's over and now I can start decorating.

Congratulations

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I finally got one after a total of about 8 hours yesterday (plus a total of 7 hours earlier in the week at other random plots for a grand total of about 15 hours).

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Originally Posted by Mew_FC

You reap what you sow.

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Are you not the one with like a whole ward to yourself? /think