4.2 Housing Update

[Claviusnex]

4.2 Full Patch Notes:

"An issue wherein furnishings could be placed beyond housing walls and ceilings under certain circumstances.
* Placing furnishings outside of an estate beyond a certain distance causes the furnishings to be placed back inside the estate."

I hope you all got the chance to have some fun before the server went down. I'm going to assume the other existing glitch are fixed/affected as well.

I hope this doesn't mean that interior walls and other items that were too long so I pushed them through the walls stop working.

[Tussin]

i hope it isn't retroactive either... i was planning to take screenshots for housingsnap before i relocated ugh =[

[Chevronone]

It most certainly has to do with this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.red..._come_give_it/

And not floating items, which have been around for years now.

[MizArai]

4.2 Full Patch Notes:

"An issue wherein furnishings could be placed beyond housing walls and ceilings under certain circumstances.
* Placing furnishings outside of an estate beyond a certain distance causes the furnishings to be placed back inside the estate."

I hope you all got the chance to have some fun before the server went down. I'm going to assume the other existing glitch are fixed/affected as well.

I read that and thought of the rainbow road house, where they have a way to glitch outside the house, then placed many, many items outside the house (in the great void beyond), mostly rainbow colored pillows making a road.

[MeridaQ]

It most certainly has to do with this:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.red..._come_give_it/

And not floating items, which have been around for years now.

Lol holy crap, yeah I would guess that’s the fix.

[Darrcyphfeid]

How does treating everyone in the FC as owning the FC house open more loopholes??

Copypasta from another thread, bolded part is most relevant:

It's pretty straightforward. For simplicity, we have Players A, B, C, D and E.

1. Player A has Master status in eight Rank 6+ FCs on their eight characters. Players B, C and D have characters in each of those FCs. This satisfies the 4-person requirement for FC house eligibility, and any additional caveats (4 characters on unique service IDs).
2. Player A purchases Plot 1. Players A, B, C and D are now no longer eligible to purchase FC houses.
3. Player A kicks Players B, C and D from FC-1. Players B, C and D are now eligible to purchase FC houses.
4. Player A invites Player E to FC-1. Player A gives Master status to Player E. Player A leaves FC-1 and is now eligible to purchase FC houses.
5. Player E now owns a single-character FC and is no longer eligible to purchase FC houses. Because no checks will be done on grandfathered estates to remove them, and because checks would punish any FC that drops below 4 members for any length of time (even 3 very active people), it is assumed no checks will be done on Player E.
6. Player A-2 purchases Plot 2. Players A, B, C and D are now no longer eligible to purchase FC houses.
7. Player A-2 kicks Players B-2, C-2 and D-2 from FC-2.
8. Player A-2 invites Player E-2 to their FC. Player A-2 gives Master status to Player E-2. Player A-2 leaves their FC.
9. Player E-2 now owns 2 FCs with houses and remains ineligible to purchase FC houses.

Just continue that until Player E owns 8 FC houses. All purchased post-4.2. All legitimately, all largely uncontested.

- Player E isn't buying those plots, so until the point of Player E-2 being given Master status they shouldn't be stopped.
- Player E-2 and beyond own FC plots, but technically so too do countless not-jerky-people. If you can't purchase an FC on an alt while your main is in a different FC, then the game counts your main as owning an FC. If you're in an FC on your main and your alt, as far as the game is concerned, you already "own" two FCs. And so, continuing that logical process, there's no difference between Player E and any other player.
- People that are being grandfathered in will own multiple FCs, and the system doesn't seem to be doing anything to them - they specifically say that people owning multiple free company estates can freely relocate (so, no checks there). Unless, perhaps, the person chooses to pass Master status to someone else - then we're in the above scenarios again.

[Bloodkraft]

Copypasta from another thread, bolded part is most relevant:

Doesn't the FC need to be rank 6 or higher to buy a house?

[MizArai]

Doesn't the FC need to be rank 6 or higher to buy a house?

Yes, an FC has to be at least rank 6 to buy a house, but it's not that hard to level up an FC to rank 6. If you're really working at it, you can do it in a day. There was a guy that was talking about having done it in 7 hours.

[Bloodkraft]

FC selling has been a big gil maker for awhile - I think it's going to be an even bigger one now.

[NanaWiloh]

Copypasta from another thread, bolded part is most relevant:

I posted the first counter too this issue in my other post. The second counter to what your presenting and the one most likely to happen: Main in FC1 with a house. Alt in FC 2 with a house, the caveat being only one of those two can be the leader of their respective FC. In short your main and your alt cannot both be the leader of FC's that own a house.