The HORRENDOUS State of Housing

[EaMett]

This is a super old topic of debate. I'm not going to repeat all the stuff that has been said over and over again in similar threads.

On the other hand I'll say this :
- Housing in ff14 has a pvp connotation, getting a house is only as hard as the other players want to make it for you. It's meant to be a challenge, it's meant to reward people who put more time/effort than others. (Raffles wouldn't work, in part, because of this). So if you want to make worthwhile suggestions, it'll have to be a system that statistically rewards players who spend more time than other players while also allowing people that have jobs and lives to come on and have a chance of getting lucky. This eliminates raffles, it eliminates turnins as those would exclusively benefit hard core players and push away more casual players. There's no easy solution here (no instanced housing is not a solution either)
- You may be doing it wrong if you got sniped by a relocation. Your first house should almost always be a small plot in goblet and/or mist. If you spent 16h in a lavender bed or shirogane ward, you set yourself up to get sniped. It's not to say that nobody ever gets their first house there, but you should know going in that you'll be forfeiting that time more often than not.
- Housing as it stands in FF14 is a fight of attrition. It's not something you should bash your head against. It's about using your time wisely, not quantitatively. Currently, demo timers are off, so simply don't house hunt. Do other stuff and wait a few months for the timers to go back up. Make sure you come on when they turn timers on again and make sure you log in 45 days after that as well. You'll get another chance after that when Ishgard hits as well. The most successful people with housing are smart about it and play the game over large periods of time instead of hitting their head against it day in and day out.