So, a lottery system and a divide between FC and solo wards, eh?

[Divinemights]

Partially, yes. But here's the thing, we don't know specifics. As we have seen from NUMEROUS game promotions, any idea can be presented in a way that will cause hype... but what the actual implementation of that idea and the hype surrounding it may be two very different things.

For all we know, this lotto could really be an auto allocation system based upon neighborhood and house type, and you enter the queue and eventually get your house and it happens to be called a "lotto".

We simply do not have enough information at this time.

Yeah, no.
It is going to be a contest of all the characters on a server for an empty plot.
People's odd will decrease dramatically.
This only makes much easier for RMT to abuse it by have army of characters to submit a claim request to this LOL lottery.

[Divinemights]

Hmm I wonder why you didn't bother to quote the whole comment I made.

Your suggestion would screw everyone over, even the top 1% you claim you're trying to stop with these idiotic suggestions.
Also since when I have I worshipped and adored anyone?

And you wonder why you're so disliked in this forum.

Oh, you didn't know the original RNG timer is from him too?

[Nepentha]

Oh, you didn't know the original RNG timer is from him too?

We have no real way of knowing if SE got the idea from him, other than the very interesting coincidence that they did it exactly as he had been promoting it.

Yet curiously seeks to distance himself from it rather than tout it as a victory either way. They implemented it precisely as he specified. You'd think he'd be crowing about how great an idea it was now that it's in use.

He was promoting it back then about as heavily and obstinately as he is promoting his idea of rent now.

Which should speak volumes.

[Vahlnir]

We have no real way of knowing if SE got the idea from him, other than the very interesting coincidence that they did it exactly as he had been promoting it.

Yet curiously seeks to distance himself from it rather than tout it as a victory either way. They implemented it precisely as he specified. You'd think he'd be crowing about how great an idea it was now that it's in use.

He was promoting it back then about as heavily and obstinately as he is promoting his idea of rent now.

Which should speak volumes.

[Almagnus1]

God forbid anyone play on NA or EU servers if they live in JP then, rip for their houses.

That's why I'm suggesting a system that allows for someone to unsubscribe and keep their house as long as the upkeep gets paid (either by their banked upkeep or some other person paying upkeep on it) for an indefinite period of time. Why are you so blind to that positive?

Would if you could only think outside your very one dimensional box. There is not one universal experience for everyone. You act as if everyone has and uses Discord. You act as if everyone has big FC and friends groups who wouldn't be affected and therefore able to help. Your desire to punish rather than rehabilitate clouds your vision.

And you have yet to provide a concrete example (other than emotional based reasoning) where what I am suggesting actually has a negative impact on anyone. If there was an upkeep, there's likely to be threads on this forum that will allow those that seek help to get it. Stop assuming that the average player is completely helpless and won't seek help if they need it. Additionally, if you are so ardent to help people you would be able to cruise the neighborhoods and help pay upkeep so you yourself could help people on your datacenter in those times of need.

This is a mechanic that enables us to help each other when it's needed.

Does nuance mean nothing to you?

I'm starting to wonder if you're not saying this to yourself and not me....

This is what I said before, you just want to sledge hammer everything. To bankrupt land barons and make them rethink ownership you would have to charge something ridiculous like 400k a day in rent. Is that what you want.

And what exactly does bankrupting land barons have to do with any of this?

There are plenty of gil sinks in FFXIV that aren't bankrupting people like the repair and teleport costs. Just because it's a gil sink, doesn't mean that it's designed to make the rich less richer, just bleed out a bit of gil from the economy. I see housing upkeep more in line with teleport and repair costs than something like the 25M or 50M mounts. The only way it ever gets to that point is when you start having to pay upkeep across 20-30 properties. Again, your ersatz fixation on making this into some way to bankrupt the rich shows a complete loss of nuance.

[Almagnus1]

We have no real way of knowing if SE got the idea from him, other than the very interesting coincidence that they did it exactly as he had been promoting it.

Yet curiously seeks to distance himself from it rather than tout it as a victory either way. They implemented it precisely as he specified. You'd think he'd be crowing about how great an idea it was now that it's in use.

He was promoting it back then about as heavily and obstinately as he is promoting his idea of rent now.

Which should speak volumes.

It's cause I had an actual stalker that found the thread, followed me around to every single forum, brought it up, and I had to report them into the ground just to have a somewhat normal experience on the forum again and they kept pointing to that thread in every... single... one of their responses. Let's see you deal with that abuse and see how well you like the original idea afterwards.

[Sotaris]

SE has paused the timer in the US for a tsunami in Japan.

No, they paused it for everyone. Hate to break it to you but there is more regions than NA and JP.
It might just be that the system is universal and if you pause it it affect all data centers.

Oh, you didn't know the original RNG timer is from him too?

Great, not surprised if he hinted about it given these other suggestions.

It's cause I had an actual stalker that found the thread, followed me around to every single forum, brought it up, and I had to report them into the ground just to have a somewhat normal experience on the forum again and they kept pointing to that thread in every... single... one of their responses. Let's see you deal with that abuse and see how well you like the original idea afterwards.

I don't condone stalking but what you've described in the past threads isn't stalking.

So you don't like getting called out for your ideas? Own up to it and think twice before posting might be a good idea :')

[Jojoya]

They aren't completely wrong though. We don't know everything. I'm pretty sure we can guess what the outcome will be, but I can't say that with 100% certainty. At best...maybe 98.9%.

So then what's SE's motivation for dropping this "lack of information"?

YoshiP isn't dumb. He's not going to talk just for the sake of talking.

If we're given information that something is going to be happening, then they want us to be talking about it. They're probably looking for our responses and ideas as they finalize how the systems will work.

If we sit here and play dumb because "not enough information", we could end up with another heavily flawed system getting exploited left and right.

You only hate them because my suggestions screw over the land barons that you worship and adore.

Recurring fees won't screw over the land barons. They're earning more than enough gil by actively operating the workshops and garden patches they have access to.

While I thought I didn't need to explain money management, by turning an asset into a liability (in other words, by attaching a perpetual cost to a house in terms of upkeep) it's going to make a lot of the people holding large swaths of land question if they want to retain those properties, or if they should unload them because what was an asset is now a fiscal liability.

Again, see above.

Recurring fees are a deterrent to those who are not using their plot, not a deterrent to those who get rich from having them.

SE would need to address the multiple house ownership separate. Recurring fees won't do anything on that front.

No, they paused it for everyone. Hate to break it to you but there is more regions than NA and JP.
It might just be that the system is universal and if you pause it it affect all data centers.

They've paused the timer only for NA at times. They've paused it only for JP at times. They've paused it for all regions at times. You can confirm this by scrolling back through Lodestone notices for the past 6 years.

They do have some control over where at least this one aspect of the game works.

[Vahlnir]

So then what's SE's motivation for dropping this "lack of information"?

YoshiP isn't dumb. He's not going to talk just for the sake of talking.

If we're given information that something is going to be happening, then they want us to be talking about it. They're probably looking for our responses and ideas as they finalize how the systems will work.

If we sit here and play dumb because "not enough information", we could end up with another heavily flawed system getting exploited left and right.

You say that as if I'm not aware of the stakes. I was simply giving credit where it was due. I haven't been shy about my opinions on this idea. I hate it, and I hate the fact that naive and/or desperate players are actively supporting it. I'm pretty sure anyone with half a brain could predict the outcome. But I'm also keeping an open mind, at least somewhat. Anything is possible, even if it's unlikely. Almagnus' ideas are abominations at best, but they were correct in stating that we don't know everything. Still, I'd like to know sooner as opposed to later.

[NanaWiloh]

This is what I've been saying since forever and even on reddit I got downvoted into oblivion. :')

Would you like to be hugged into oblivion?