Housing: Purchase Timer - Alternative Idea

[Levin_Azure]

It would definitely be nice to have a large house in the future, but I've written that off as a fever dream at the rate I manage to save gil, haha! If we could build our houses up in a manner, that'd be superb, though of course they'd have to do some landscaping changes for the current housing areas.

I don't know terribly much on the raw details of world visiting yet, but I wasn't sure if we would still have our primary worlds, and if it'd cost anything to change primary worlds within the same data center. [If there's a list of said raw details, a point in that direction would be greatly appreciated <3]

[Penthea]

I don't know terribly much on the raw details of world visiting yet, but I wasn't sure if we would still have our primary worlds, and if it'd cost anything to change primary worlds within the same data center. [If there's a list of said raw details, a point in that direction would be greatly appreciated <3]

There is no exact date for world visiting but we do know it will be before 5.0. So it's going to be in a few weeks or months.

From what I recall world visiting will be pretty simple. You go to a main aetheryte in a capital city and from there you can choose a server on your data centre to visit. You can use the market board on other servers but you can buy houses only on your home server. What this means for someone like you is that you can leave Mateus to get a house but you can still visit that server to interact with any friends you have that stayed there.

If you look at your top right of your ui there should be a little house icon and your server name near the mini map (assuming you did not move these elements). That is something added pretty recently to the ui, and it's there to indicate what server you're currently on. When you visit another server the name will change to that server.

SE have said that when world visiting is introduced there will be free server transfers. If you are thinking about leaving your server to get a house I suggest you start planning now.

Even though your chances of getting a house will rise you obviously would be one of a large number of players who will move to find a plot. There's still a chance you'll find no empty plots. Make some alts on other servers, have a look at what's available, how much and where. Make sure you have enough gil to buy any class of plot of your desired size so that you won't miss a chance because you lack a bit of gil. If you go to the Land Pricing tab in this link you can see the prices of each class of plot for each size.

Along with world visiting the data centres will be split differently. Below shows the data centres after the split. World visiting does not allow you to visit worlds on another data centre. So if you're changing server choose carefully so you don't end up separated from friends on other servers. The data centre names in the red boxes indicate new data centres that will be created with the split.