Housing Woes

[MicahZerrshia]

Oh, thanks. That's still a lot of work to rank one up to be able to buy a house.

Honestly its not. You can autosynth lvl 50 green items using items your retainers collected and turn them in to the gc and literally get an FC high enough to buy a house in a couple hrs, if that. If you have some lvl 50+ dungeon gears stocked up to turn in you can speed that up incredibly.

[NotOliverB]

Hours? I've done it in two minutes lol.

[Vahlnir]

Best way to go about this is this...when a plot opens up that you want buy a cheap small and then relocate to your desired plot. Or maybe have a small plot owned as you wait, that way you can bypass the timer with little to no risk of others beating you to it. That's what I did when I was looking to buy another house after losing the one I had after a 5 month break. Plot opened up in Shirogane so I went to take a look. When I decided I'd buy it, I went to Mist to buy a 1.4 million gil small. Then I went back to Shirogane and transferred instantly. You just have to be persistent and keep checking the wards. If you can't beat the relocaters by camping a plot, then beat them at their own game.

[Aldotsk]

You want a house? We've got over 600 available on Coeurl right now. There were a dozen mediums available when I did my census last week, including a couple that had bottomed out on price. You don't have to spend 12-24 hours of your life fighting to get a house. You just have to be where they are available in the first place. Somewhat like real life - you want to own a house instead of rent or you want a real job instead of unstable part time work? You move to where the houses and jobs are available.

Last time I checked Coeurl for census, (this was 3 days ago). There weren't 600. I'd have believed you if you said Goblin because that's actually the amount there.

If you honestly think the system is not working properly due to being able to relocate, you clearly haven't been around for a while or you just don't get it. Being able to transfer an FC house to someone else has been around ever since housing exists in this game and nothing's changed. You can still have 8 FC houses per account on top of 1 personal house. How is that supposed to hinder reselling plots in any given way?

Coming from someone who trolls and griefs people in Gilgamesh server and brag about how you own entire Ward, you are the one to talk.

[NotOliverB]

How am I trolling or even griefing other players. Please show me.

[Numenor1379]

Right. Let's all wait for 12-24 hours not going to work or focus on real life to fight over a plot. Sure.

Honestly, most people think this system and Square Enix is doing fine because they either own a plot that they want or just don't care to have housing and want new contents instead of fixing minor contents. That applies to PVP too.

That isn't what we are saying. Getting the house you want takes either great luck, time or a combination of both. However, getting into housing by buying ANY plot you find gives you a large bump when it comes to getting the plot you really want.

So what you do is this:

- Buy a small plot anywhere just so you are on the housing ladder.
- Watch the wards of the plot you really want a few times per day or so. This is where patience comes in. Use your current house to buy furnishings or as a starter base, or don't use it at all. Just have it.
- When the plot you want opens immediately travel to it and relocate. This is the reason you bought the other house, because you completely bypass the timer via Relocation.

Can you still get screwed? Yep.
Will it take time? Absolutely.

But it is lightyears better than trying to camp a spot and hope for hours. It took me two months before a spot opened at LB 29/59 for me, but I moved there instantly when it did.

Get your foot on the ladder. That is the important first step.

[Jojoya]

Last time I checked Coeurl for census, (this was 3 days ago). There weren't 600. I'd have believed you if you said Goblin because that's actually the amount there.

I just did the census on the census on the 24th. Check the census thread. It might be a little lower now but not significantly so. We've been running 500-600 available houses pretty consistently since the wards were added at the start of the year since we're usually marked as a preferred world (lost the status for about 6 weeks then got it back). The number of available mediums can vary a lot though there's usually at least 3-4 open.

[MicahZerrshia]

It also stinks we cant just trade our house in. I don't want to keep my mansion since idk if I am going to stayed subbed at this point but I don't wanna loose 40m gil in case I don't so I am just sitting on it, not only does the timer need to tick past 45 days but also I need to wait til it starts again since they shut it down for the hurricane.

There is no logical reason housing should be this convoluted…

[worldofneil]

How am I trolling or even griefing other players. Please show me.

Hours? I've done it in two minutes lol.

Sorry, but what?

To get an FC from 1 to 6 requires the FC to earn about 86,000 credits. The FC doesn't get that much for each hand in (you might get 1400+ seals for handing in level 70 items, but the FC only gets a few points, even if you're getting the bonus for being the only one online) so even if you had an absolutely massive stockpile of items ready to hand in, that's still going to take more than a few minutes to actually hand them all in, as well as all the preparation time it took to acquire all those items in the first place.

I know that raising an FC to 6 can be done in a few hours, I've done it myself in 6 hours, although not something I want to repeat any time soon. For me it was a combination of HQ crafting/hand ins, but even then I'm not including the time taken to gather materials to craft with before I started (which with hindsight maybe I should have done while in the FC as HQ gathers would have earned 3 points each time too...)

But what you're saying, that is just not possible. But hey, I'm happy to be proved wrong! (and it'd be useful if I ever needed to level up another FC!)

[NotOliverB]

A few points he said. Not possible he said while begging to be proved wrong. Okay, here's my guide to leveling an FC, the smart way.

Step 1: Ditch the guides that tell you to gather thousands of items and craft militia chokers. It's 2018, not 2015 my lala.

Step 2: Fill your inventory with ilvl 220/ ilvl 170 items on the market board that players have obtained from ventures and therefore don't have any clue what they are actually worth. If you know your way around the market board, chances are you already bought these HQ 220 items that were being sold for 5000 gil but since you're here...

Step 3: Ignore the /tell you just received about this player who's trying to lowball you on overpriced vintage items that nobody crafts, because you know he's gonna buy them anyway.



Step 4: Teleport to your GC

Step 5: Watch this short repetitive video:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/329884659

Step 6: Come back to the forums and pretend not to be upset because you got proved wrong.

Ilvl 250 - 750pts
Ilvl 220 - 660pts
Ilvl 180 - 540pts
Ilvl 170 - 510 pts

Inventory: 140 slots

Do the math.