Housing

[Asuna86]

I have been waiting on this house in the goblet for 5 hours now. It says this plot is not yet ready for purchase. I know the timer is rng, but is the max time like 24 hours or something?

[Zumi]

Many houses left on Sarg and we are one of the bigger servers.

[worldofneil]

is the max time like 24 hours or something?

Sorry, but we just don't know.

Wish I could give you a better answer, but SE haven't said.

[Asuna86]

Sorry, but we just don't know.

Wish I could give you a better answer, but SE haven't said.

Thank you

[worldofneil]

I appreciate this is hardly a great solution, but if you're set on that plot, and can afford it, buy a small plot somewhere else and relocate to the one you want.

The one you want must have been owned by someone else who relocated (or demolished) to reset the timer. There's plenty of new plots in the new wards that will be available for purchase right now.

Edit: Nevermind you're Balmung, sorry :S

[Belisaire]

There are two massive problems revealed by the current system...

A. User interface and graphic wise, plots that are on the cooldown timer look identical to plots that are actually available to be purchased now. I had a blast running around last night trying to find a plot that was actually purchasable and never did. This is likely what is causing players to camp these things so hardcore. This is a disaster implementation from the UI side.

B. Houses left over from relocation should probably have some expedited cooldown timer, if none at all. I get the need for the cooldown for relinquished plots because you don't want people selling these things off for cash. But someone relocating isn't likely selling the house/trying to flip it for gil. As it is now, players who relocate are (unintentionally, no fault of their own) causing havoc for people just trying to get a house because some houses look like you can buy them but you can't and they get stuck on a cooldown. This will continue to be a problem, because if and when SE adds more housing, this issue will resurface at probably a larger scale (especially if say, a new district entirely is released and you see a huge migration).

In short, the current system really sticks it hard to people who don't have a house.

[Asuna86]

I appreciate this is hardly a great solution, but if you're set on that plot, and can afford it, buy a small plot somewhere else and relocate to the one you want.

The one you want must have been owned by someone else who relocated (or demolished) to reset the timer. There's plenty of new plots in the new wards that will be available for purchase right now.

Edit: Nevermind you're Balmung, sorry :S

Yea, it's kind of take what you can get over here. I actually did log out in front of the one I wanted but when I logged in this morning someone had taken it.

[Mysteltain]

Yea, it's kind of take what you can get over here. I actually did log out in front of the one I wanted but when I logged in this morning someone had taken it.

Yup, same. I got the lobby server error when I tried to log in this morning, had to log in again, and got stuck in a 15min queue. Ah, well. Just gotta wait for them to add more wards.

[DevonEllwood]

Balmung was cleaned out in mins with many missing out, 557 in que got one in lavender beds hubby 881 only able to get in goblet.

I don't see why there's so much hate for the Goblet. There's still one where I have my house, though it's a small. I just checked and no one is camping it.

Also how do you know if the house is on a timer? All I see it the depreciation timer on it.

[TaranTatsuuchi]

Balmung has a few spots open still, but they're all on the timer due to the previous owner relocating from it.

Yeah...

I wonder how many of these 'free houses' that people are pointing out are still under this timer.