House timer

[Claviusnex]

It's random. If you can your best bet, although more expensive, is to grab any house you can then relocate to the plot you prefer. Relocation is not affected by the timer.

[Abelfei]

It's random. If you can your best bet, although more expensive, is to grab any house you can then relocate to the plot you prefer. Relocation is not affected by the timer.

If buying for 1st time,it's random. Like they said, buy any small you can, then you relocate whenever. Timers for auto demo are every hour on the hour, so once you get a house, that's your best bet for sure.

[Claviusnex]

If buying for 1st time,it's random. Like they said, buy any small you can, then you relocate whenever. Timers for auto demo are every hour on the hour, so once you get a house, that's your best bet for sure.

It depends upon the server on how random it is. You could go onto my server and walk up to just about any empty house and buy it on the spot. It might not be the most desirable but the point is you are in something that will let you relocate to a more desirable plot and bypass the timer. It does cost more but if a person really wants something cost is a secondary concern.

[Kazrah]

It depends upon the server on how random it is.

I think on your server, I waited around half an hour for a plot in the Goblet. Meanwhile, I'm on Malboro in Lavender Beds going on hour five waiting for a plot to become available for purchase and can't go off to do a buy/transfer because pretty much all of them are on either on the random timer or someone else waiting on it to open up. Since the random timer can't be seen, that means that people like that will spend their time sitting there and waiting, clicking the buttons and spamming their chat log with the "This plot of land is not yet ready for purchase." message all because they want a house, and that's the BEST case scenario because I've seen multiple people fighting over a single plot all because of that timer, leading potentially to escalating altercations.

What makes matters worse is that promoting the plot transfer method as a means of bypassing the random timer means that someone could do this repeatedly in the span of minutes and effectively exploit the timer as a means of keeping multiple plots out of the hands of players buying a house, and the lack of an adequate gil sink in the game short of teleportation means that running out of gil doing it would never be an issue for someone willing to do that.

Seriously, whatever dev thought the random timer system we have now was a good idea clearly had neither regard for nor understanding of human decency.