Houses obtained Via Auctions? Not a good idea or fun

[axemtitanium]

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You seem to be misunderstanding what a reverse auction is. In a reverse auction, the price starts extremely high and goes down over time. For example, let's say the first plot of land costs 100 million gil. If no one buys it, the price will go down to 90 million gil. Then 80. Now 70, ok, the richest FC on the server wants in for 70 million gil. No one else wants it at that price? Ok 60 million, 50 million, etc. until the price goes into your price range. This system allows rich people to have "first dibs" on whichever plot they want but no one will ever be able to "outbid" you on a particular plot of land.

This is the same system they used for player housing in Dragon Quest X (which Yoshi-P was a designer on).