Glitches that are okay to use...

[sakkito]

Well the OP I guess you wanted to start a discussion similar to the one people for a long time are discussing- whether white lie is still a lie - is meant as a mean to hurt. The glitch that FFxiv tried to prevent was affecting the main gameplay and was harmful to the experience in general. While using housing glitches ... is pretty much a high end game, requires some patience and skill but most off all doesn’t affect anyone but person who used the glitch. On that not I am glad that someone else wrote that non glitched houses also won top prizes. Which means that there was no favouritism. Prizes were for houses that looked the best. It wasn’t blunt favouritism towards cheating but neutral judgement. So there was no unfairness committed towards unglitched houses as you are trying to suggest.

Trying to compare two glitches is a bit eh. Not the same thing. And not same level of seriousness. Chill

[kamenkuro]

Glitches are only ever an issue if they do 2 things. Mess up a fight, or mess up the economy. They've known about going out of bounds forever and that's never been fixed. House glitching is a non-issue

[Bahati]

I'm surprised people had the nerve to enter houses with clear glitch usage in this contest in the first place. A bold move but clearly worked out in the end.

I'm on the fence on this one. It doesn't appear to be against any rules. I don't believe there has been a statement about housing glitches at all save the aquarium one that was destroying the aquariums themselves.

On the otherhand, maybe if everyone knew about glitching and/or that it would not result in disqualification... maybe some contestants could have submitted a more impressive interior design.

[AxHell]

There's a little harmless glitch I like to use that makes you look cooler.

So you know how certain weapon have a shiny effect when you draw them ? And then it disappears when you put it down ? You can keep that effect by drawing your weapon first then sitting down directly after the animation for drawing your weapon started.

And boom you have your shiny weapon.

[Dustytome]

At this point they should just let us place any object anywhere in the room. There is already a safeguard in place that removes Collision Detection from all objects if PCs become stuck in Housing. I mean, don't get me wrong, I have some floating objects in my rooms too. So I can appreciate the time and effort in some of these designs that are utilized floating objects even more... cuz I know how long it can take to set up: place, re-zone, check positions, adjust, re-zone again, check positions, adjust, re-zone again, etc.

I often advocate for advanced placement tools (mostly because after messing with placement using the tools we have now I often notice I've time travelled hours into the future). The variables for placement and angles all get saved already, so just give us access to manipulate that via the UI. Wildstar has a really nice UI for this and if the devs/users haven't checked it out, I would take the time to do so. It's completely free at the moment and it will be shut down sometime in Nov so please devs/cms, take a look at a great housing system before it's taken down. I want that kind of control in this game even if parts like resizing are left out.

[Vidu]

I'm surprised people had the nerve to enter houses with clear glitch usage in this contest in the first place. A bold move but clearly worked out in the end.

I'm on the fence on this one. It doesn't appear to be against any rules. I don't believe there has been a statement about housing glitches at all save the aquarium one that was destroying the aquariums themselves.

On the otherhand, maybe if everyone knew about glitching and/or that it would not result in disqualification... maybe some contestants could have submitted a more impressive interior design.

The question wether or not glitches were okay was posted both in the english and the german forum at least - and went unanswered and ignored both times. I took that as a "dont ask, dont tell"-policy, which didnt allowed them to tell us "Yes, you can exploit this glitch" directly, but also realised that they had to ban basically every house-owner if they wanted to make the glitch punishable.
Kinda like how they're well aware of people using parsers, but wont ban the whole raiding scene.
They cant say its okay to use, but at the same time they wont do anything about it as long as no one gets hurt (and no, losing this contest doesnt count - since you were able to win without making use of the glitch aswell)

[DeaconMoore]

Quite simply the housing "glitches" that people are "exploiting" accomplish in part what people should be able to do with the in-built housing tools. The fact that you have to "glitch" to make things happen like putting a flower vase on your fireplace mantle is a failure of the housing tools that are available to the user.

[Lihtleita]

honestly they should just make adjusting the y axis of furniture a feature at this stage. If its okay to exploit a buggy placement system at least make it easier to do so without jumping through a bunch of hoops.

[Edax]

Is it really that criminal to want my Lalafell Mender to use the Lalafellin Step Stool?

[Niqote]

Housing 'glitches' are how we make up for the terribly limited housing system and has nothing to do with combat or progression advantage.