There were no participants in this lottery

Only one bid was placed in the entire ward 18 of Ravana foundation. I even called out in pf'ers to come and bid the 18th offering to make their exterior for free, but all I saw was, "There were no participants in this lottery" and I blame island sanctuary for taking the steam out of the housing market and sending it into a recession.

Why do you care? Didn't you cheese making a shell FC to get your own FC house?

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Originally Posted by sagacious

Only one bid was placed in the entire ward 18 of Ravana foundation. I even called out in pf'ers to come and bid the 18th offering to make their exterior for free, but all I saw was, "There were no participants in this lottery" and I blame island sanctuary for taking the steam out of the housing market and sending it into a recession.

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We already know that Island Sanctuary will have nothing to do with housing, how does it cause a "recession"? Also, maybe the location is garbage and no one wants that.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

Why do you care? Didn't you cheese making a shell FC to get your own FC house?

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So ? What's wrong with that ? Anyone with some logical sense and that doesnt care about FC themselves will use an FC to get a house, it's so easy to get a house that way and it's not even abuse of the system either.

Is there anything about housing you won't complain about?

I don't have a house
I have a house but others aren't decorating theirs
People aren't using workarounds to get a house


and now:

Why aren't people buying houses?


I think you just like complaining.

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

So ? What's wrong with that ? Anyone with some logical sense and that doesnt care about FC themselves will use an FC to get a house, it's so easy to get a house that way and it's not even abuse of the system either.

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You and OP should form a group. One can complain about neighborhood housing and the other can complain about instanced housing. I'm sure it'll be a great success.

As for why it's wrong, because everyone should be able to get a house without needing to resort to exploiting the system to get one. But I'm sure you'll just reply with how instanced housing is the worst thing ever so I'm just gonna stop there and save my breath.

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

I think you just like complaining.

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DING DING DING!

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

So ? What's wrong with that ? Anyone with some logical sense and that doesnt care about FC themselves will use an FC to get a house, it's so easy to get a house that way and it's not even abuse of the system either.

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Exactly and now that I have a house I want the wards to fill up with nice new neighbors, but Island sanctuary took the air out of the bidding process. We have 6 gingerbread houses in ward 18, Ravana, Foundation, and it looks great more would be better and I am working towards that end.

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Originally Posted by sagacious

Exactly and now that I have a house I want the wards to fill up with nice new neighbors, but Island sanctuary took the air out of the bidding process. We have 6 gingerbread houses in ward 18, Ravana, Foundation, and it looks great more would be better and I am working towards that end.

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P.S. if anyone needs a gingerbread made just leave a message. ty :)

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Originally Posted by DragonFlyy

We already know that Island Sanctuary will have nothing to do with housing, how does it cause a "recession"? Also, maybe the location is garbage and no one wants that.

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There are 4 gingerbread houses in one location. The scene is amazing you should see it before making judgements. :)

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

You and OP should form a group. One can complain about neighborhood housing and the other can complain about instanced housing. I'm sure it'll be a great success.

As for why it's wrong, because everyone should be able to get a house without needing to resort to exploiting the system to get one. But I'm sure you'll just reply with how instanced housing is the worst thing ever so I'm just gonna stop there and save my breath.

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You do that lol. To each their opinion.

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Originally Posted by sagacious

Only one bid was placed in the entire ward 18 of Ravana foundation. I even called out in pf'ers to come and bid the 18th offering to make their exterior for free, but all I saw was, "There were no participants in this lottery" and I blame island sanctuary for taking the steam out of the housing market and sending it into a recession.

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Oh hey you're alive! How've ya been?

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Originally Posted by sagacious

Only one bid was placed in the entire ward 18 of Ravana foundation. I even called out in pf'ers to come and bid the 18th offering to make their exterior for free, but all I saw was, "There were no participants in this lottery" and I blame island sanctuary for taking the steam out of the housing market and sending it into a recession.

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Island Sanctuary has nothing to do with it. Plenty of available plots to choose from (including medium and large) compared to world population does.

Certainly I know the last thing I would ever want to do is buy a house in the same ward where you have one. I've got no desire to listen to your endless complaints and commentary.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

Certainly I know the last thing I would ever want to do is buy a house in the same ward where you have one. I've got no desire to listen to your endless complaints and commentary.

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More effective at emptying that desirable combo-plot than a paissa house with moogle trees.

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Originally Posted by sagacious

I want

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Indeed. /sigh

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Originally Posted by sagacious

Only one bid was placed in the entire ward 18 of Ravana foundation. I even called out in pf'ers to come and bid the 18th offering to make their exterior for free, but all I saw was, "There were no participants in this lottery" and I blame island sanctuary for taking the steam out of the housing market and sending it into a recession.

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This isn't a dig at Materia, but perhaps everyone has a house now.

The playerbase isn't huge, and some people just don't care about housing or just play alts there.

There are 7200 houses on Ravana. The last stats from XIVCensus show there are less than 7000 level 90 characters on Ravana, and less than 14K total on Materia.

You obviously do not have to be level 90 to buy a house, but it just shows how little population is, when anywhere from 10-30% of that number may not even care about housing at all.

I'm personally hoping that numbers will pick up for 6.2 given the data center is pretty dead right now. Anyone wanting a house will certainly be able to get one here there are tons here with no bids including large and mediums on the various servers.

Only 5 in my subdivision, larges sold and 2 smalls about it and that's on Sophia.

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Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

I'm personally hoping that numbers will pick up for 6.2 given the data center is pretty dead right now. Anyone wanting a house will certainly be able to get one here there are tons here with no bids including large and mediums on the various servers.

Only 5 in my subdivision, larges sold and 2 smalls about it and that's on Sophia.

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Thank you for being honest about the state of Materia compared to those who try to say that everything is fine and there's plenty of pop.

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Originally Posted by sagacious

There are 4 gingerbread houses in one location. The scene is amazing you should see it before making judgements. :)

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Making judgments....they said MAYBE the location is bad.
Taking offense to that is odd

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Originally Posted by sagacious

There are 4 gingerbread houses in one location. The scene is amazing you should see it before making judgements. :)

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As much as I will gladly defend you in some cases, if you have 4 gingerbread houses which absolutely ruin the entire scenery and ruin the theme of the area, it's not a surprise no one goes there, I will gladly avoid any gingerbread,paissa,carbuncle or chocobo house because of that, and I am sure I'm not the only one

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

So ? What's wrong with that ? Anyone with some logical sense and that doesnt care about FC themselves will use an FC to get a house, it's so easy to get a house that way and it's not even abuse of the system either.

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Won't comment on what's wrong with that, but if that's true then that might explain why there aren't that many bidders on houses in OP's ward. Most of the small/med for FCs on my dc that are currently empty stay empty every single bidding session.

It's all the personal plots that are being bid on that people are struggling to get a hold of.

Come buy me a house on Balmung!

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Thank you for being honest about the state of Materia compared to those who try to say that everything is fine and there's plenty of pop.

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Been saying its on a decline for months and all the defenders come out of the woodwork saying 'its fine, queues are good', yet every time they post on the forums its a level 80 boosted alt that cant even do endgame content.

I really don't blame people for wanting the servers to succeed, i would love to go back there if the population ever boomed, but the sad truth is that the servers are bad for SEA players, and that lowers the population to the point where its not worth playing on.

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Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Won't comment on what's wrong with that, but if that's true then that might explain why there aren't that many bidders on houses in OP's ward. Most of the small/med for FCs on my dc that are currently empty stay empty every single bidding session.

It's all the personal plots that are being bid on that people are struggling to get a hold of.

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I think you don't understand the situation on Ravana.

There is a large number of personal plots available. We're not talking a few hundred plots left. We're talking well over one thousand. Larges seem to be limited to Goblet at this point but mediums are all over the place and smalls have barely been touched.

There's no one bidding on houses in the OP's ward because there's no need to. They've got plenty of choice in the other wards and in the other housing districts.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

...There's no one bidding on houses in the OP's ward because there's no need to.

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I've noticed that without the pressure of a housing shortage Empy is the very least desirable of the housing areas. Even Goblet is filling faster.

When there are plenty of homes people are mostly avoiding Empy like the plague.

People just flocked there because its new. Like how everyone is wearing that new streetwear mogstation glam.
Not because its an actual nice looking ward..

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Originally Posted by Wolwosh

People just flocked there because its new. Like how everyone is wearing that new streetwear mogstation glam.
Not because its an actual nice looking ward..

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Opinions on what looks good and bad is personal. Ishgard on that does already look better to me than for example gridania or uldah. Its basicly the building style that appeals. So its not just because its new.

And the same happens with your character, well before you even choose the glams. Some like a lalafel, i would avoid that completely.

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Originally Posted by Wolwosh

People just flocked there because its new. Like how everyone is wearing that new streetwear mogstation glam.
Not because its an actual nice looking ward..

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Advantage of having alts on different servers is you get to have a house in each of the housing districts and experience them all. Personally Empyreum is the polar opposite of a place like Lavender Beds but it has it's own appeal. In my case it will be nice when our ward fills up given there are only 5 of the 30 houses taken at the moment and our ward is pretty typical of many.