Housing stress test

Anybody going to be trying to break anything next week for the cloud server? Assuming housing districts will be open (naturally the one week limit hinders most testing).

Do you think the lottery system could handle it if everyone agreed to all bid on the same plot?

Or

What does the system do if you bid on a plot, and delete your character? What if you immediately make a new character and bid again on the same plot? How many new characters/bids can you make on the same plot?

i bid 23 times for a med and lost its broken

I wasn't even thinking about housing when it came to things to do during the stress test. Breaking the servers is the point of a stress test, not breaking the content (that's for beta testing).

As for your specific ideas, I don't think you'd be able to get everyone to bid on the exact same plot to push the lottery system to any limit it might have for entries. We know it can handle at least 1000 entries thanks to Balmung.

On deleting a character after bidding, I doubt it would change anything about how the system works. If the characters wins, it won't be able to claim the plot so it would rollover to the next lottery period. If it loses, it won't be able to claim a refund. It wouldn't be an effective way to exploit the system on the live servers (but it would be very expensive).

We don't need a housing stress test. The housing system creates plenty of stress.

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Originally Posted by PredatoryCatgirl

We don't need a housing stress test. The housing system creates plenty of stress.

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LOL this is true!

Debating whether or not I want to roll a cloud character just to snag my dream plot for a week… lol

Just wish you could get something for your main out of it… like maybe a Twintania mount or something. Never did get enough feathers for that! Or a way to send your main any unused gil out of that 50 million! lol

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

As for your specific ideas, I don't think you'd be able to get everyone to bid on the exact same plot to push the lottery system to any limit it might have for entries. We know it can handle at least 1000 entries thanks to Balmung.

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Honestly, didn't even know any had hit 1000+. That was part of my curiosity. Know we've already seen that and haven't hit any limits, seems unlikely we could push any harder in a week's time.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Honestly, didn't even know any had hit 1000+. That was part of my curiosity. Know we've already seen that and haven't hit any limits, seems unlikely we could push any harder in a week's time.

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Yeah, the week is going to go by faster than people think especially with the congestion that will be caused by everyone participating trying to create characters and get into the game the first couple of days while SE is juggling technical settings in the background.

Those who have never participated in a stress test or beta (real beta, not free demo publicity disguised as a beta test) for a major MMO before are going to have their patience tested.

For those participating in the stress test:

Housing is First Come, First Serve (no lottery) on CloudTest01 and CloudTest02. You will need to do the "Where the Heart Is" quest for the housing district where you intend to purchase in addition to getting Second Lieutenant with your Grand Company (not part of a job boost or the MSQ skip).

While technically the 50 million that every character gets is enough to purchase any plot in the game, you're still going to have to come up with another 3 million to purchase the construction permit if you purchase a LB5 or other Grade 1 large and actually want to have a house and not just an empty plot for a week.

I can’t even remember how long it took to hit the GC rank when I did it on my alt. lol I assume they probably already have enough testers. I wanted to try it, but this is a bad week at work for me, and not sure if you can still do it at this point or if you had to be there the first day. People seem to be reporting excellent ping!

At any rate, does anyone think that cloud servers could be used to help the housing scarcity problem? Like could they just create infinite wards using cloud servers and not have it bog down the main servers? Or even move all housing to cloud altogether? I’m not really sure what all the cloud tech is capable of, so I’m asking. lol

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

I can’t even remember how long it took to hit the GC rank when I did it on my alt. lol I assume they probably already have enough testers. I wanted to try it, but this is a bad week at work for me, and not sure if you can still do it at this point or if you had to be there the first day. People seem to be reporting excellent ping!

At any rate, does anyone think that cloud servers could be used to help the housing scarcity problem? Like could they just create infinite wards using cloud servers and not have it bog down the main servers? Or even move all housing to cloud altogether? I’m not really sure what all the cloud tech is capable of, so I’m asking. lol

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You can join at any time up to next Monday evening when the testing is scheduled to end.

Because this is a stress test, there's no such thing as "enough participating". The point is to stress the cloud servers to see if they're capable of carrying expansion release size loads and so far the queues aren't getting quite that high.

As for cloud servers being able to create infinite housing, I don't think it would work quite like that unless SE did choose to add in a better instanced housing system.

Kinda impressed that they thought ahead and made housing FCFS. Kinda kills my idea of playing with the bidding system. But probably better for getting any housing to actually happen in a week.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

You can join at any time up to next Monday evening when the testing is scheduled to end.

Because this is a stress test, there's no such thing as "enough participating". The point is to stress the cloud servers to see if they're capable of carrying expansion release size loads and so far the queues aren't getting quite that high.

As for cloud servers being able to create infinite housing, I don't think it would work quite like that unless SE did choose to add in a better instanced housing system.

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Oh good to know! Might try it out tomorrow then. :) As an East Coast player, I’m really interested to see how much better it feels. Don’t know if I’ll have the patience to get my GC rank up or not for a house, but we’ll see! lol

At least the possibility is there… hopefully the test goes well and they’ll start looking into what all they can do with it.

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Oh good to know! Might try it out tomorrow then. :) As an East Coast player, I’m really interested to see how much better it feels. Don’t know if I’ll have the patience to get my GC rank up or not for a house, but we’ll see! lol

At least the possibility is there… hopefully the test goes well and they’ll start looking into what all they can do with it.

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It didn't take me that long to get GC rank up (though I was doing it because of hunts and not for housing). Do the GC hunting log and get the additional seals you need to progress to Sergeant Second Class by doing FATEs in one of the Stormblood zones. Once you've done Sergeant Second Class, you can get the rest of the seals you need through Expert Delivery. I turned in gear I got from the job boosts for the jobs I won't use (just before you don't turn in the gear you are using by accident). You could also quickly solo a few HW dungeons for gear to turn in, you should get at least 5k seals per clear.

This is almost over but if you have a little time to spare, make a character on one of the test servers and check out some of the many houses decorated by testers (primarily from JP) before they get destroyed when the servers go down. Many are listed in Party Finder.

For the descriptions that are in JP, look for 01 or 02 (indicates which test realm), then ##-## (ward and plot). The housing district is usually listed using the auto-translation dictionary.

Do we know an exact time the servers will go down or is it just reset tomorrow?

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Originally Posted by Khryseis_Astra

Do we know an exact time the servers will go down or is it just reset tomorrow?

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Test Period
From Monday, November 20 at 7:00 p.m. to Monday, November 27 at 7:00 p.m. (PST)

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

It didn't take me that long to get GC rank up (though I was doing it because of hunts and not for housing). Do the GC hunting log and get the additional seals you need to progress to Sergeant Second Class by doing FATEs in one of the Stormblood zones.

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I got the extra seals by running levelling roulette with whatever was in need at the time (=3000 seals bonus) then once I could hand in gear, I cashed in everything I'd picked up in the dungeons.