Not sure where people find the news that comes out but I'm only hearing secondhand info about endwalker. I'm curious if we are able to enter for more than one house at a time. If not, this will be even worse than what we have right now.
Let's say the lottery for each house that's 4 days. If you only get one entry total and not able to bid for any other house for those 4 day, and 100 people also bid, then you have a 1 in 100 chance every 4 days to get a house. That sound horrible.
Housing lottery question.
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11-06-2021, 08:11 PMRaeodorHousing lottery question.
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11-06-2021, 08:14 PMCetek14
Apparently one lottery at a time. Your first mistake was assuming they are ever going to fix housing, it can only get worse.
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11-06-2021, 08:15 PMSotaris
Can only enter 1 house lottery at a time and you get a penalty if you take back your lotto ticket.
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11-06-2021, 08:17 PMEvergrey
1 bid per lottery period.
You should probably be happy about it as well, seeing that you'll pay the full price of the plot when you "buy" the lottery ticket.
And if you don't return to the plot if you lost the lottery you will lose all the Gil you put into that plot. (90 days timelimit to get it back)
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11-06-2021, 08:20 PMAngeliouxRein
People are getting news from the live letter stream. They have an official Twitch and YouTube they do livestream on and there’s a section on these forums that gets updated after new live letters get posted. Fair warning that this live letter was 6hrs and 48 mins long.
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11-06-2021, 08:21 PMHalivelIt's not a perfect system either but it's 100% better than camping out for 24 hours with no sleep for months as some people do at the moment. Plus you can see the number of people applying for the plot.Quote:
Each player may only enter the lottery for one plot of land during each lotter period
The note about schedule being shared is a bit unclear, but if it'll work they way I think it would (having global reset time shared across all plots no matter when they became vacant), it will be wise to check on available plots closer to the end of current lottery window and apply for the one with less people in list. We'll see in 6.0/6.1, though, this is just speculation on my part as the explanation about schedule wasn't particularly clear.
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11-06-2021, 08:21 PMNakiraYou can't withdraw your bid. So you can't change your mind and bid on another house, you have to wait out the lottery, and if you don't win you then have a set time to get your gil back. The penalty is for people who bid and win and then don't claim the plot within the designated time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sotaris
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11-06-2021, 08:25 PMHeyMcFly
I'd post this in the housing forum for better response
But to answer your question & sorry for the same kind of response-
Each player may only enter for one plot of land for each lottery period and can only be owned by 1 paid account & you cannot own houses on alts. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
They're still taking feedback on this system- I'd recommend a trickle effect where we can bid on x amount of houses during the bidding system - implement two types of tickets, a bidding ticket that doesn't cost gil & for the winners, the land permit ticket that does cost the plot gil amount- that way, it allows players to bid on multiple houses and once the lottery ends, depending on RNG if we end up winning the 1 plot, the other tickets & plots we bidded on become void & go to the other people and so on
But there is going to be a lottery area and a 1st come 1st server area
As far as the 1st come 1st serve, I think there should be a 1 hour grace period before we can purchase the plot. It gives players time to log in -
11-06-2021, 08:26 PMAndy_T93
This all seems messy, im actually super happy that Ishgard has never appealed to me as a housing area
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11-06-2021, 08:29 PMRaeodor
Hmm going from a 1 in (however many people are there when it sells) chance 1 or more times a day to 1 in (hundreds or more) every few days doesn't sound better.
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11-06-2021, 08:32 PMRaeodorThere's a housing forum?Quote:
Originally Posted by HeyMcFly
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11-06-2021, 08:42 PMSotarishttps://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/1020Quote:
Originally Posted by Raeodor
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11-06-2021, 08:43 PMSotarisI see, the system is really confusing to me but thanks for the correction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nakira
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11-06-2021, 08:48 PMPenthea
It's likely that the reason why you cannot enter more than one draw at a time is so that wealthy players will not have a significant advantage over other people. If player wealth could dramatically increase your chances at getting a house then that would encourage RMT, like it did in the past with house flipping.
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11-06-2021, 09:02 PMEvergreyIt all depends.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raeodor
Seeing how a player will only be able to have 1 house per server someone can't try and get yet another one on an alt, reducing the numbers of possible buyers already.
And with the new requirements for a player to actually participate in the lottery means that there won't be any bots flooding the system.
And if you're worried over the number of people anyway.
Remember that there will be several housing districts that will spread out where people put their tickets.
Is the system perfect? No.
But at least it now gives everyone participating an even chance in getting a house, rather then bots spamming and people having to waste time clicking a sign hours at an end. -
11-06-2021, 10:43 PMLianaThorneJust gonna put out there that it's pretty easy to bypass the 1 house per person rule. Unless they decide to fix that, people will still find a way to own multiple in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Evergrey
Side note this process is exactly how I predicted it to be. All that it is, is camping without the camping. You'll still only be able to do one at a time and still probably have to wait 12+ hours to find out if you got the house. Only this time, you're gonna be fighting against HUNDREDS of players compared to the handful that shows up at placard. You say there are going to be plenty of wards but please consider the number of people actively playing the game trying to fit into 12-14 wards total (since the lottery is only taking over half).
Did this really fix anything tho or just make the process even more luck dependant? -
11-06-2021, 10:46 PMNexxus
The Several Days waiting time... :-(
You'll spend several day to wait and have a chance of not winning the plot... It'll take more than month for some unlucky people to still get an house if the "several days" is more than a week. -
11-07-2021, 12:11 AMLianaThorneOh it's several days? Lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nexxus
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11-07-2021, 12:26 AMPoporito_Popoto
Is it firsts come, first served for the new housing plots that aren't lottery picks?
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11-07-2021, 12:35 AMAngeliouxReinApparently, that seems to be the case… that’s if they don’t change it to a lottery system on the fly. They kept talking about how they created a dedicated team that can change the housing zones from lottery to first come first serve and vice versa … as to what would cause them to change it back and forth is what I’m wondering about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto
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11-07-2021, 12:44 AMRokkeSounds like it, so they're just doubling down on the hellscape housing is now: if you don't grab a plot in the dash when the servers go life you're stuck with the same terrible odds until the next big update that adds wards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto
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11-07-2021, 01:25 AMJeeqbit
Since you are not sure where this information came from, it was from the Letter from the Producer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t75AzYm0soM
This and other things get announced on the lodestone which displays in the launcher https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/news/