Quote Originally Posted by Almagnus1 View Post
And what happens if the FC that likes being on somewhere like Cactuar wants to find a home?



I'm not the one who's attacking other players here, I'm looking for a way to better optimize housing distribution so that more can enjoy it because housing is such a scarce resource.

And if you perceive that to be an attack on you (or your playstyle), then that's a problem that exist solely in your head.



I haven't put in the time to work with XIVAPI to pull the data and make sure it's valid. Most of what I was looking into involved using a packet sniffer to pull the data from the ingame traffic and storing it as it's being sent from the server to the client in plain text so I'd get the addresses and FC tags - which means I can do a focused Lodestone pull via XIVAPI for the FC tag on that world and verify it with the address.

And honestly, I got sidetracked into other projects so that got put onto the backburner. Speaking frankly, no amount of data I can provide, or arguments I will make will ever be sufficient for those who are abusing the current system because they will always see themselves in the right and most of them (like yourself) cannot be reasoned with because they only think that people like myself are incompetent simpletons that are doing this out of jealousy. When you're fighting that perpetual uphill battle... why waste the effort?



You've got a website, why aren't you pumping the data into the website's database, and going from there?

While a spreadsheet is a great tool for analysis (at least as far as Excel is concerned - the Google Spreadsheet is a POS), a spreadsheet is a horrible way to store data, much less make it accessible to anything else.
I don't understand what is the point of you ranting here on an idea that will not sold; to both community and SE.
They will not touch grandfathered houses (I have to bold for you)
They have announced the plan of new housing plots then just get ready and combat the login server like every one of us did in the past when we try to get our first house plot.
Your little crusade on the anti-grandfathered house will never sold and it doesn't increase your chance of obtain a plot too.
All the issue in regard to the housing is the basic supply vs demand.

No sane gaming company will touch the asset that players obtain through legit mean.
Bathesda was only the idiot that done that in Fallout 76 and how they end up with?