Disallow Relocation, At Least Temporarily

[Awha]

Relocation is a great thing! It has fueled many trolly nights for me.

[Catstab]

You are suggesting that the FC leader's "perfect plot" opens up, so they're willing to go entirely houseless for a CHANCE to get their 'ideal' spot? Because guess what, they still can't relocate. They would literally have to do all the things you said, get rid of their housing, and then camp the placard. Not just purchase outright

Let me try to explain this, even though it's clear that aspects of housing and human nature are being left out of your thought process.

Your FC wants Lavender Beds 15. Recently you moved from Goblet outer ring to Goblet poolside. Lavender Beds 15 is one of 6 plots open today.
Options:
A) Wait the month, and keep looking for your dream plot afterward. You may never see it again.
B) Break the house down and camp for the new one
C) Break the house down, ending the relocation cooldown attached to the estate. Check the 6 open houses for being purchase-ready. If one is ready, buy it and relocate to your dream plot (before you try it: no, purchasing does not trigger relocation cooldown, only relocating does)

You call option B and C "farfetched things that are so far away from reality." But you're plainly wrong. They are the only options other than "accept defeat" and they both can work. That means people will try them. And if they do, they have to break their FCs down.

So currently:
-No one has to break FCs down for housing reasons, ever.
-Campers only face the timer once, then access the housing market freely

The suggestion:
-Sometimes social FCs die, but only if their leaders dare make a mistake in your deeply flawed system
-Campers camp every relocation they ever want, because standing at a placard adds replayability to ff14

[Catstab]

What your saying just doesn't make any logical sense.

See the above post.

[Venjamin]

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B) Break the house down and camp for the new one
C) Break the house down, ending the relocation cooldown attached to the estate. Check the 6 open houses for being purchase-ready. If one is ready, buy it and relocate to your dream plot (before you try it: no, purchasing does not trigger relocation cooldown, only relocating does)


So currently:
-No one has to break FCs down for housing reasons, ever.
-Campers only face the timer once, then access the housing market freely (THIS is the problem.)

The suggestion:
-Sometimes social FCs die, but only if their leaders dare make a mistake in your deeply flawed system
-Campers camp every relocation they ever want, because standing at a placard adds replayability to ff14

Firstly: No. Why would you be allowed to relocate directly after purchasing? The suggestion, ultimately, is designed so that players can't jump the timer. That is the problem.

Secondly: "Facing the timer once" is either a head-in-the-sand best case scenario, or a plain lie. So far in the last two weeks I've played the "camp the placard" game DOZENS of times.

Third: The system is ALREADY deeply flawed. The suggestion just makes it so people who ALREADY have a house don't have a SIGNIFICANT advantage over those who do not. I don't care about relocation, in the end. I think relocation is fine, with one caveat: I care about relocation taking priority over those who do not have a house. I would take the massive price inflation of house flippers over this "hey spend several hours doing NOTHING because of FOMO/playing the placard roulette, only to have someone walk up and relocate onto the plot you've been camping." Like, HALF of that equation is already garbage, the second half just propels it into the core of Trash Planet.

[Catstab]

Firstly: No. Why would you be allowed to relocate directly after purchasing?

Because that is how it works! Have you even played final fantasy? The 5-minute relocation cooldown is activated upon relocating, not on initial purchase. Changing it to 30 days doesn't change that.

[Venjamin]

Because that is how it works! Have you even played final fantasy? The 5-minute relocation cooldown is activated upon relocating, not on initial purchase. Changing it to 30 days doesn't change that.

Sure I have. I just haven't played with a house, because I have lost my rounds of placard roulette thusfar. Once more, you are WILDLY missing the point. Relocation should NOT be allowed to cut the timer. They should have to sit and camp with the rest of us schlubs.

[Catstab]

WILDLY missing the point.

This after you read "don't say this isn't how relocation works, because it is" and responded "but that's not how relocation works!"

Just re-read my post above if you want to know my point.

[Venjamin]

This after you read "don't say this isn't how relocation works, because it is" and responded "but that's not how relocation works!"

Just re-read my post above if you want to know my point.

Your point is that people without a house should be treated worse than people who already own a house, and is therefore not a good one.

[Catstab]

Your point is that people without a house should be treated worse than people who already own a house, and is therefore not a good one.

Your point is that you love placard clicking for hours so much, you want to do it every time you move, too. You want to waste hundreds of extra hours of people's time. It's also not a good one.

Improve things for campers, don't create issues for relocators. Relocation should go away. But only because the timer itself is gone. Lengthening the cooldown is only a change for the worse.

[LaylaTsarra]

Your point is that people without a house should be treated worse than people who already own a house, and is therefore not a good one.

There is nothing wrong with relocations. It does not take a house away from those available. The problem is the timer and that needs to be addressed. The long times associated with the cooldown before a house becomes available is ridiculously long. I sincerely doubt SE will remove relocations as an option but the request to include a longer cooldown before a house owner can transfer again is a good one. Multiple transfers in a small space of time needs to be discouraged.