Personal Housing Questions

[CYoung187]

I think it would be awesome if they slowly auctioned off plots to the highest bidder. Hard to complain about the prices then.

[Niwashi]

I think it would be awesome if they slowly auctioned off plots to the highest bidder. Hard to complain about the prices then.

If they auctioned off enough houses for everyone who wants one to get one, the price they'd get would be 1 gil, as there would be no reason to bid against anyone else. I suppose you're right that there wouldn't be much complaining about it, but it does seem a bit unrealistic. And it wouldn't provide the gil-sink that I'm pretty sure SE is aiming for this to be.

The only way you'd get any real bidding at such an auction is if they deliberately prevent personal housing from fulfilling its purpose for existing, by restricting the number of houses available. That way, no matter what happens with the bidding, most players will be unable to obtain one.

We already have the exclusive housing that a few players can have but most cannot. Currently, in order to have access to a house you have to be the leader or a top-level officer of a high ranking Free Company. If you're not in a Free Company, then no house for you. If your Free Company is below rank 6 then no house for you. And if you're a member rather than an officer of your Free Company, then all you can do with your house is look at it, so effectively no house for you.

Personal housing is supposed to fix that problem. It exists so that EVERYONE can have access to a house (along with its associated activities like gardening and chocobo raising). Limiting it as well to only a few privileged players would defeat its whole purpose.

[Gilthas]

We already have the exclusive housing that a few players can have but most cannot. Currently, in order to have access to a house you have to be the leader or a top-level officer of a high ranking Free Company. If you're not in a Free Company, then no house for you. If your Free Company is below rank 6 then no house for you. And if you're a member rather than an officer of your Free Company, then all you can do with your house is look at it, so effectively no house for you.

There's actually another option: join a FC that isn't led by asshats.

In our FC everyone can do anything with the house except throw it away.

[Ashkendor]

We already have the exclusive housing that a few players can have but most cannot. Currently, in order to have access to a house you have to be the leader or a top-level officer of a high ranking Free Company. If you're not in a Free Company, then no house for you. If your Free Company is below rank 6 then no house for you. And if you're a member rather than an officer of your Free Company, then all you can do with your house is look at it, so effectively no house for you.

Uh... or just join an FC where the leaders aren't jerks? Seriously... I'm in a smaller FC on my server, basically a small group of IRL friends and a slightly larger group of people that we've met ingame and picked up along the way. We used our garden plots to grow glazenuts for the sole purpose of crafting stations for those leveling DoH classes. We also grew chocobo snacks, sold some to have some money for the FC, and put the rest in the storage for anyone to take. There *is* one page of the company storage that's officer only (basically to prevent someone new from joining, completely gutting us of gil and philo mats, and then bailing) but if someone needs something from that page they can ask. The rest of the items in company storage are accessible to all.

In any case, nobody has any of the information about personal housing yet, but I hope it's coming soon. ^^