How to Fix Housing while keeping Neighborhoods

[PrinceThrash]

Housing Lottery

• Totally remove placard purchasing/transfers
• Weekly lottery in each district
• Medium and Large restricted to FCs
• Small open to all who meet requirements (GC Rank/MSQ)
• One per account
• Increase plot costs

This is the fairest way I can think of for making housing available to all, and shouldn't be too much trouble to implement. No more click grinding or bots. Plot costs should probably be increased to a very large amount gil like it was at 2.0 launch. Let me know what you guys think as I'm fairly new to looking for housing.

Thanks!

Totally remove placard purchasing/transfers - 100% agree. The hours of clicking is ridiculous. I think when a house becomes available a 24hr timer should start. You could click the placard (as long as you have sufficient gil) and agree to buy. Anyone can do this within the 24 hr period. At the end of the 24 hrs, the house is randomly assigned to one of the players that agreed to purchase. This would solve the clicking all day problem.

Weekly lottery in each district - Not sure what this is?

Medium and Large restricted to FCs - I think larges should definitely be restricted to fc's only. Mediums and smalls should be accessible to both individuals and fc's. IMO

One per account - Yes, yes, and hell yes

Increase plot costs - Yes

Good ideas! Definitely something that needs to be brainstormed here on the forums and at Square.

[crumbler81]

Weekly lottery in each district - Not sure what this is?

They could hold lotteries kind of like what we have for the Cactpot Board. If plots become open during the weekly reset, they would go to the lottery to determine the next owner. Players could go to a housing district, select an open plot, and basically purchase a lottery ticket for the cost of the plot. This would be returned to the player if they do not win.

[Jojoya]

Where the fix? None of what you listed fixes anything.

Players need a way to interface with the game to indicate the plot they want to own. Remove placards and you've removed the ability to purchase altogether. No one gets anything. Nothing is fixed.

A lottery doesn't guarantee that a player who meets the requirements will get a house or even that anyone will (see below). Nothing is fixed.

Restricting mediums and larges to FCs means more players creating shell FCs so they can own one. Watch all the shell FCs for solo players now owning the mediums and larges while legitimate FCs can't get any housing at all because they're blocked from purchasing smalls. Nothing is fixed.

There aren't enough smalls for every player in the game. Nothing is fixed.

Taking away the excess houses from multiple house owners is a drop in the bucket compared to unmet demand. Nothing is fixed.

Increased plot costs makes it harder for players, especially those with only a few hours a week to play, to obtain a house while players with hundreds of millions of gil or lots of real life disposable income to spend aren't impacted in any measurable way. Nothing is fixed.

Before you can suggest any fixes, you need to identify the real problem The real problem is the lack of a dynamic supply able to meet the demands of a player base that is continuing to grow (which is pretty rare in a MMO that's 7+ years old) but is growing at variable rates on different worlds in different regions. We're stuck with a static supply that is the same for every world despite population imbalances and that does not automatically grow as the player base grows.

If you want to fix the problem, you need to create a dynamic supply system. Other MMOs have it - it's instanced housing. It's worked very successfully for them. Players aren't limited to one per account, or one per world, or one per character. Players can get as many houses as they want.

Let's stop suggesting that SE waste their time making torn bandages that don't fix anything and start requesting they use their time to create a real solution.

They could hold lotteries kind of like what we have for the Cactpot Board. If plots become open during the weekly reset, they would go to the lottery to determine the next owner. Players could go to a housing district, select an open plot, and basically purchase a lottery ticket for the cost of the plot. This would be returned to the player if they do not win.

That's not how lotteries work. With a lottery, participants pick numbers. Then a winning number is independently picked. If no participant picked the winning number, no one wins.

You really want to see plots sit vacant for weeks because no one manages to pick the winning number?

If you want plot ownership based on RNG, you should suggest a raffle where participants are given numbered tickets and a winner is drawn from the tickets given out.

It still doesn't fix anything.

[Seddrinth]

Where the fix? None of what you listed fixes anything.

You really want to see plots sit vacant for weeks because no one manages to pick the winning number?

If you want plot ownership based on RNG, you should suggest a raffle where participants are given numbered tickets and a winner is drawn from the tickets given out.

It still doesn't fix anything.

If you do raffle then people will just make a million alts to increase the chances of them winning the house.

[Luna-M]

Stopped taking this OP serious after reading "Weekly lottery in each district".

I ensure you, we don't want lottery. May sound good on paper but it won't in practice.