Housing Lottery FC Relocation Error

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 1:07pm EST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Balmung
■ Character name: Ahri Kha @ Balmung
■ Area and coordinates: The Mist, Ward 4, Plot 31
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:
1. Be fc leader with fc house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

It appears the lottery is only checking for first time purchases and not considering relocations.

EDIT: I was able to put in a bid using an alt from the same service account, but my character that is the fc lead was unable to bid.

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 4:00pm BST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Cerberus
■ Character name: Sylbritt Muscadet
■ Area and coordinates: Lavender Beds, ward 16, plot 41
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PS4

■ Steps:
1. FC leader with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
5. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on alt character Lucien Valentin who is in the same FC and owns a personal house on the same world
6. Bid successful
7. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on 6 other alt characters, also in the FC, all with required gil and all eligible to purchase land, not one able to place a bid, error message 4 received by all.

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 5am HST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Gilgamesh
■ Character name: Eclair Xysha
■ Area and coordinates: Shirogane, Ward 2 Plot 60
■ Housing: See Above, attempting to relocate.
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:

Same as OP's post.

Housing requirement and guide clearly says:

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If the character in question purchased the plot, they may still submit a lottery entry for the purposes of relocation.

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■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 9:25 ST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Odin
■ Character name: Aramea Val'nthir
■ Area and coordinates: Lavender Beds, all FC plots;
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PC

■ Steps:
- character with FC purchase/relinquish land privilages present in the FC longer than 30 days
- interact with a placard in an FC-only ward and select enter lottery and confirm lottery conditions
- error message is generated: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

This message was generated for each of these characters:
- FC leader (no private plot)
- alt with private plot
- alt without private plot

I've already reported this issue during the previous lottery cycle:
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...04#post5904804

UPDATE:
I was able to place a bid using a character that had orignally purchased the currently owned FC plot.
All other characters on this service account & world that are FC members get the error message.
As far as I can tell most people that I know have not encountered this issue when using different characters to place bids for FC plots.

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 8:00am - 9:07am PST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Mateus
■ Character name: Alcaeus Aedinius, Dimos Riverwind, Guillefresne Blodoint
■ Area and coordinates: Lavender Beds Ward 2 Subdivision
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:
1. Placed a bid when the lottery opened this morning (5/26/22 8AM PST) to relocate my Free Company from a Small to a Medium plot.
2. Logged onto another character to do the same, receive the error message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
3. Logged onto a third character, who also received the error message.
-Another FC member was able to place two bids on two different characters.
-I traded two of my FC members my gil that I was going to use for my two bids and they were both able to bid as well. Only my account seems to be unable to bid for relocation anymore.

Writing for a Friend:

FC Relocation Error
■ Date & Time: 05/27/2022 02:50em UTC
■ World name: Shiva
■ Character name: T'hyrias Tia
■ Area and coordinates: Empyreum, 13 - 8
■ Housing: FC Relocation
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:
1. Be fc leader with fc house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account." (26.05.22 - 17:30 pm UTC)

He too was able to put in a bid using an alt from the same service account, but my character that is the fc lead was unable to bid!

■ Date & Time: 05/27/2022 2:30 am BST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Odin
■ Character name: Yana Reyen @ Odin
■ Area and coordinates: Empyreum, W16 P51
■ Housing: FC relocation
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:
1. Character with FC purchase/relinquish permissions which has been part of the FC for more than 30 days, has sufficient GC rank.
2. Attempt to bid on available plot in Empyreum FC ward
3. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

Another character on this account purchased the original plot that we are trying to relocate from ~7 months ago. This character has never interacted with housing.

FC Relocation Error
■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 8:00pm EDT
■ World name: Adamantoise
■ Character name: Alfred Sinosen
■ Area and coordinates: Mist Ward 12 Plot 35
■ Housing: FC Relocation
■ Platform: Windows

■ Steps:
1. Be FC member (non-owner, with FC 700+ days, permission to purchase land) with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

I have 2 characters on this world, both members of the same FC (700+ days). Neither of whom are leaders of the FC (both lowest rank). Character 1 (Inflection Point) originally purchased land for the FC 700+ days ago and was able to put in a bid for this plot of land. Character 2 (Alfred Sinosen) gets the error message. 3 friends on 3 other accounts were able to successfully place bids on this land on both of their characters on this world (one of whom owns a private house as well).

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 1:00am AEST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Balmung
■ Character name: Ysabel Vedaine
■ Area and coordinates: Empyreum, ward 17, plot 32
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PC

■ Steps:
1. FC member with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
5. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on FC owner Lisotte Baudelaire who is in the same FC. Lisotte Baudelaire successfully purchased the FC house I am attempting to relocate from lottery in the last cycle.
6. Bid successful
7. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on 3 other alt characters, also in the FC, all with required gil and all eligible to purchase land, not one able to place a bid, error message received by all.

UPDATE:

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 4:00pm BST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Cerberus
■ Character name: Sylbritt Muscadet
■ Area and coordinates: Lavender Beds, ward 16, plot 41
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PS4

■ Steps:
1. FC leader with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
5. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on alt character Lucien Valentin who is in the same FC and owns a personal house on the same world
6. Bid successful
7. Attempted steps 1 - 3 on 6 other alt characters, also in the FC, all with required gil and all eligible to purchase land, not one able to place a bid, error message 4 received by all.

05/27/22
8. Relinquished personal house owned by Lucien Valentin. No property now owned on Chaos besides the FC house.
9. FC lead Sylbritt Muscadet attempts to bid on plot 41, ward 16, Lavender Beds, Cerberus.
10. Attempt unsuccessful, Error Message received:
'Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account.'

05/28/22
8:24 am
11. Alt Character Midje Solna attempts to place a bid on plot 41, ward 16, Lavender Beds Cerberus.
12. Bid unsuccessful Error Message received:
'Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account.'

■ Date & Time: 05/28/2022 2:25 ST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Omega
■ Character name: Cherry gateau
■ Area and coordinates: Empyreum, all FC plots;
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: Steam

■ Steps:
1. FC leader with house
2. click to relocate plot in Empyreum
3. Get this error: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
4. Log onto alt character and can bid on an FC plot
5. Bid successful
6. Attempted again to bid on first character
7. Same error: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
8. Log onto another alt character and bid an FC plot
9. Bid successful
10. Attempted again to bid on first character
11. Same error: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."
12. Log onto main character
13. Bid on a personal house
14. Bid successful
15. Attempted again to bid on first character
16. Same error: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

Seeing other posts here, it's clear as day that there is some sort of bug going on where it's thinking we're trying to BUY a house, this is relocation, the guidelines even state that even WITH a house, you can still relocate if you have that error, please fix this ASAP.

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Originally Posted by Solarra

UPDATE:
05/27/22
8. Relinquished personal house owned by Lucien Valentin. No property now owned on Chaos besides the FC house.
9. FC lead Sylbritt Muscadet attempts to bid on plot 41, ward 16, Lavender Beds, Cerberus.
10. Attempt unsuccessful, Error Message received:
'Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account.'

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Omg you did what

Also experiencing this bug on multiple alt characters, SE def needs to halt this period until this flag issue has been fixed.

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Originally Posted by SaraScarlett

Also experiencing this bug on multiple alt characters, SE def needs to halt this period until this flag issue has been fixed.

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I'm surprised they didn't even address this officially yet.

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 8:00 PST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Mateus
■ Character name: Tavi Jade
■ Area and coordinates: Shiro Ward 14 Plot 23;
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PC

■ Steps:
- character with FC purchase/relinquish land privilages present in the FC longer than 30 days
- interact with a placard in an FC-only ward and select enter lottery and confirm lottery conditions
- error message is generated: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

■ Date & Time: 05/26/2022 8:00 PST
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Mateus
■ Character name: Artimeo Maiius
■ Area and coordinates: Empyreum W18 P37
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PC

■ Steps:

1. FC leader with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

Date & Time: 05/30/2022 12:04 EDT
■ Frequency: Always
■ World name: Balmung
■ Character name: T'ahlia Chelewae
■ Area and coordinates: The Goblet W15 Plot 55
■ Housing: See Above
■ Platform: PC

■ Steps:

1. FC leader with FC house/storage ready for relocation
2. Find available house in FC-only ward
3. Click placard to enter lottery
4. Receive message: "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account."

For the past several housing expansions I have been unable to participate because I am not given the option to transfer.... I thought this got resolved. I have put in 3 tickets. No compensation, no fix... and I know for a fact it has cost us an FC house atleast twice. This time around I am furious.... but I will try again..
Date & time: May 30, 2022 (current runin with this issue) 12:30 pm Central time 7:00 am Eorzian time: issue always comes up when attempting to transfer housing
World Name: Midgardsormr
Character name: Maeganor Galaereial
Area and coordinates: Goblet ward 11 plot 30, coordinates x:14.5 y: 12.2
Housing: yes multiple attempts have been made over multiple housing releases, and noone can give me answers.... this isn't new....
Platform: PC
Network info: not relevant...
time of most recent incidents: currently ongoing attempts being made with no luck but began my attempts: in game time: 7:00 am, local time : 12:30 pm Central.

Steps taken:
1. Click placard
2. Click enter lottery
3. Agree to terms box checked.
4. Click button

Error message received this time and every other time:
Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account.

FC has been in existence since 10/14/2019 I am the creator. Initial FC small was purchased somewhere around that time in the Mist a small plot by myself. The bug first occurred with release of patch 5.25 3/2/2020 when I first noticed this bug was a problem. I lost a large during that release time due to the bug. At that time I Attempted for 10 minutes to purchase a plot with the bug coming up the those 10 minutes before someone came and bought the plot out from under me. I have had an issue ever since. With the initial release of Empyreum, my husband and I attempted again, he was attempt 3 I would have been 3 but the bug came up and he would have been 4. The winning number for the lottery was 4... and the plot was never claimed. It should have been ours. Now I can not try again.... This is really getting old. Especially since nothing is being done to fix the issue nor to compensate for the CLEAR losses...
My account has been in existence since 03/2017. I own a personal plot Shirogane ward 14 plot 51. Our FC plot is Mist ward 9 plot 60. This character is the only character that owns housing. None of my alts have a house. I do not own an apartment.

The sad thing is, if they don't bother looking into this, the issue won't pop up untill another round of housing, there needs to be way more eyes on this since it's clearly a bug effecting a minority.

Pretty sure I tracked down the underlying issue, or at least one specific reason that triggers the error.

If *any* of your characters on a server originally purchased the plot of land for an FC (any FC) and is still in that FC, any alts on that server will be unable to place a bid for an FC house (only the character that originally purchased the plot for the FC plot will be able to do so).

I was able to confirm this with a few people I knew who were having the issue. If they had a character that had originally purchased the land for an FC, that character could place a bid, but no other characters on that server could. However, as soon as the character left that FC, all of the alts were suddenly able to place bids.

I doubt that's the way SE intended it to work, but that seemed to be the "fix" - a character who purchased land on behalf of an FC cannot belong to that FC, otherwise all alts are locked out from placing bids.

Its clear that Naoki Yoshida failed miserably with the housing system

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Originally Posted by duckdynasty

Pretty sure I tracked down the underlying issue, or at least one specific reason that triggers the error.

If *any* of your characters on a server originally purchased the plot of land for an FC (any FC) and is still in that FC, any alts on that server will be unable to place a bid for an FC house (only the character that originally purchased the plot for the FC plot will be able to do so).

I was able to confirm this with a few people I knew who were having the issue. If they had a character that had originally purchased the land for an FC, that character could place a bid, but no other characters on that server could. However, as soon as the character left that FC, all of the alts were suddenly able to place bids.

I doubt that's the way SE intended it to work, but that seemed to be the "fix" - a character who purchased land on behalf of an FC cannot belong to that FC, otherwise all alts are locked out from placing bids.

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My character had personally purchased the land, is the original character for the plot i wanted to relocate to, and weirdly enough, my alt i boosted was the one able to bid and not the owner.

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Originally Posted by duckdynasty

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Thank you, that would certainly be worth a try. Since this bug isn't even accepted yet, I am not very hopeful for any resolution in the near future.

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Originally Posted by duckdynasty

Pretty sure I tracked down the underlying issue, or at least one specific reason that triggers the error.

If *any* of your characters on a server originally purchased the plot of land for an FC (any FC) and is still in that FC, any alts on that server will be unable to place a bid for an FC house (only the character that originally purchased the plot for the FC plot will be able to do so).

I was able to confirm this with a few people I knew who were having the issue. If they had a character that had originally purchased the land for an FC, that character could place a bid, but no other characters on that server could. However, as soon as the character left that FC, all of the alts were suddenly able to place bids.

I doubt that's the way SE intended it to work, but that seemed to be the "fix" - a character who purchased land on behalf of an FC cannot belong to that FC, otherwise all alts are locked out from placing bids.

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That was not the case for me, as I posted in the OP. Another character on my same account was able to bid, while my main (who is the fc lead and who I know purchased the original property and the most recent relocation) was not.

That sucks, I guess the bug goes a bit deeper then. What I reported solved my issue and 3 other accounts' issues; I hate that there must be even more to it!

I'm happy to report that having the character who originally bought the FC house leave the FC fixed things for me.
This could make subsequent relocations very 'interesting' though (or maybe I'm over-thinking). Anyway, problem solved for now, so thank you for posting. Really hope we get an official fix for this.

so I've been experiencing this problem, and I did a lot of research. I vaguely remembered there being a live letter back in shadowbringers when they released housing that described how Player A could purchase housing if Player B had not purchased housing or something to that manner. so I scoured the internet and the closest equivalent I could find was from a forum thread asking about FC housing and alt characters the post goes as follows

"Players will be permitted to own only one private and one free company estate per World per service account.

For example:
If you have two characters (character A and B) on one World, and A is enlisted in a free company which owns an estate, then B will not be able to purchase a free company estate."

this post was from 2018 this is the link for any who care to read the thread
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...cters-question

I then also found a link in patch 5.35 that talked about proceeding to the housing guide to read more. of course the housing guide has been updated to current housing standards but it does state under the purchase requirements for FC houses.

"Land Ownership: You do not have a character on the same World on the same service account that purchased and maintains a free company plot

* If the character in question purchased the plot, they may still submit a lottery entry for the purposes of relocation."

So in the 2nd housing lottery I attempted to put gil up for a house on my alt for the FC but got the message "Lottery entry and plot purchase unavailable. No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account" I then moved over to my main and was able to put money up for the house another member of my FC was able to put gil up for both this main and his alt. we did not win the house.

in the 3rd lottery I decided that as the house is tied to the FC leader that perhaps giving my alt leader would allow her to put gil up for the house. I put gil up for the house on my main account first and then transferred leadership to my alt, she was still unable to put gil up for the house. I then attempted to give another member of the FC leadership who had already put gil up for the house on both his main and his alt account, but was still unable to put gil up for the house on my alt. we did not win the house again.

I wish I had thought of this before putting gil up for the house, but I do wonder if it locked the house to my main because I put gil up for the house before transferring leadership, and would like to in the next lottery try transferring leadership before putting any gil up for a house.

Edit: on a side note has anyone attempted to put gil up on a character for an FC and then leave said FC? what happens to the lottery?