A Better Way for Houses Up For Grabs

[tdb]

Oh I don't have to imagine it i've done it. I won a house on Balmung clicking a placard. I've also had people swoop in and transfer after having clicked the placard for hours. I would rather see them remove the timer altogether than have an RNG lottery replace it. Please don't try and pretend a lottery is a better solution to the problem then simply removing the timer.

If the timer was removed we'd be back at the rich players buying up all the empty plots they can find and selling them for profit. The timer makes that impossible to do reliably. A lottery would as well, but it would also allow people to plan their schedules. Do you have an alternative solution for stumping house flippers?

[LaylaTsarra]

If the timer was removed we'd be back at the rich players buying up all the empty plots they can find and selling them for profit. The timer makes that impossible to do reliably. A lottery would as well, but it would also allow people to plan their schedules. Do you have an alternative solution for stumping house flippers?

A small percentage of people bought up houses for profit/resale. The current system hasn't stopped resale of FC's for profit. No a lottery is bad and only gives a large group of people who wouldn't even bother trying the opportunity to get one putting people willing to work for it with a terrible rng system they have no control over.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion but so am I. And furthermore I think SE has good things for housing planned with the new dedicated housing servers they have yet to install and Ishgard and I'd be willing to bet a lottery isn't part of it.

[Catstab]

If the timer was removed we'd be back at the rich players buying up all the empty plots they can find and selling them for profit. The timer makes that impossible to do reliably. A lottery would as well, but it would also allow people to plan their schedules. Do you have an alternative solution for stumping house flippers?

I have a solution, I posted it in my own thread

When housing launched, a small cost 40 million, a medium 150 million, a large 500 million. These prices aren't suited to being flipped and they also gouge the profits of shell FC workshop farmers. The price being so high also reduces demand since a smaller percentage of the playerbase qualifies for housing.

People complained the price was high, I've heard that Yoshi P responded 'If I lower the price, wealthy players might buy up everything' but people still pushed. So prices were cut down by 90%. Now anyone who could have afforded a house can afford 10 houses. With a 3m pricetag, anyone who is progressing in the MSQ can afford a house. And we have ~4300 personal houses per server.