Please educate me on how bidding for housing works.

[Lucipurr]

Does anyone know if personal housing is coming in 2.1? My friend told me it's only fc housing..

[DenzelTaru]

Does anyone know if personal housing is coming in 2.1? My friend told me it's only fc housing..

personal housing comes 6months after 2.1

[Nahara]

Does this mean we can prevent someone else from buying the plot we want by outbidding him, or is it a race to who can get to the npc first?

From how I understand the system, having watched both the live letter and read up on the official translations, this is how I see it. The "auction" part of the "auction-like system" the answer is talking about is that the price comes down if nobody had purchased it after a time. The only way to keep someone from buying a piece of property is to buy it yourself.

[Pellegri]

They said it was coming in 2.2, roughly 6 months after 2.1.

That would go completely against their whole thing of "we want content to come at a more standard 2 1/2 - 3 months after we get 2.1 out of the way". They aren't going to hold 2.2 for 6 months after 2.1 comes out and again they said personal housing(if that's what it even is by that time) will not be till roughly 6 months after 2.1.

Also they talked about it some in the letter last month that plots will be sold at an auction, the houses themselves that you will put on said plots will have a set price for them. Meaning you could bid 100mil on a plot and potentially win it over another fc but even then you will have to pay the set price for the house itself. However the plots only have select sizes to them so if you buy a small plot you can't put a large/med house in it and same for the higher up plots, you cannot put the other size houses on them till 2.2 or later.