First Storm Leiutenant, have twice as much as asking price, but unable to buy house

[Random0]

Has anybody done research/experimented with how the timer works? Like is it an exact specific number of hours, or can the timer be something like 9 hours and 27 minutes? I mean, would I have better luck by timing it to be on the hour exactly?

Google suggests that relocation bypasses the timer. Is this true? Will it work for my FC private chambers if I select 'relocate' and select the FC chambers? I can always just buy another FC room

It's been suggested that plots open up on the hour.

And using relocation to bypass the timer only works if you already have an existing housing plot, since that sort of relocation opens up your old plot. You cannot relocate from a FC room to a full housing plot.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[...]the only thing that is close is us losing patience with you lol

I'm losing it when I read this lmao.

[Catwho]

INB4

"So I have signed up for house lottery 10 times in the past 6 months and each time there have been around 50-80 other players listed on the lottery. How the **** am I supposed to get a house in this game?? At this rate it will take literally years.

Hey, welcome to my life for the last two months playing the Newegg Shuffle trying to get a 3070 or 3080

[worldofneil]

When 6.0 housing drops will be the best time to get a plot.

I'm very happy to be wrong, but realistically it's probably going to be 6.1, much like Shirogane was 4.1.

In 4.0 we could see the first ward of Shirogane and walk around, but it wasn't until 4.1 it acually opened to let us buy the plots.

Although SE haven't said either way, there's probably going to be some MSQ restrictions on the new housing area (namely finished HW) which is more than the current housing requirements for Lavender/Mist/Goblet. And releasing housing at the same time as a main expansion... that'll just be carnage :S

[Nayout]

The posts are a valid description of what players can experience

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...lly-impossible
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...r-specifically
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-future-update
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...hocobo-past-10
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...mmand-Missions
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...but-others-can
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...s-casting-gear
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...r-s-New-Shield

[Jojoya]

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...lly-impossible
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...r-specifically
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-future-update
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...hocobo-past-10
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...mmand-Missions
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...but-others-can
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...s-casting-gear
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...r-s-New-Shield

I'm aware of his other posts.

Regardless of whether he's trolling, the posts are bringing up issues that new players can struggle with. They're bringing discussion that includes helpful information for new players in one of the places they're going to look for it. If you've spent time in a helpful NN where sprouts aren't afraid to ask questions, you're going to see the same things getting mentioned.

The only one I read where he went way off base was the Thav Onion thread.

[Vahlnir]

I can’t help but think we’re maybesorta being trolled here.

It is what they are known for.

[worldofneil]

You're not wrong, this was already confirmed (forgot when, probably in the last live letter). Edit: No, it was during the EW announcement I think, lol.

Ah I didn't know that that was confirmed, thank you for letting me know!

[lezard21]

Tbh the timer does a poor job at stopping people from selling the plot at ridiculous prices, now there's simply the added requirement of "you need to already have a house AND pay me this exorbitant amount of gil so you can relocate to the plot".

Not really. Because even if you sell it to someone relocating, a plot becomes available regardless, that is, of the person that relocated.

I am seriously hoping these private islands they mentioned in the new xpac have some kind of housing option. I love to design player housing but I have zero interest in battling other people or invisible timers on the hopes of getting a lot that may be in a decent location. Give me my own private instanced island with zero neighbors to build my own home on and I will be a happy cookie.

We could have a bit of both worlds.

Allow players to buy private islands.

Allow FCs to buy bigger private islands in which FC members can buy house plots and you can have your own FC neighbourhood. You will even make happy the FCs that used to buy entire wards with the old system!

[Absurdity]

Not really. Because even if you sell it to someone relocating, a plot becomes available regardless, that is, of the person that relocated.

What does that have to do with anything? You still have people selling medium and large plots for exorbitant prices and now you also have people sitting on small plots for what might be months, keeping other players from getting a small house, just so they can relocate.
It doesn't matter if that small plot becomes available to people afterwards. Players still have to pay ridiculous prices for anything above small and small plots are still occupied by players who do not even use those plots and just keep it so they don't have to deal with the timer in the future.


Add to that the fact that bots have a significant advantage over normal players when it comes to acquiring a housing plot and I think it's quite obvious where the plot timer does a poor job at solving the issue.