How to combat housing resellers and make it fair for everyone

[StouterTaru]

Your solution is "there's no problem just ignore" which just isnt reality.

Your solution is "the house is on fire, throw a water bottle at it."

My solution is to keep the minimum prices for houses where it is, and up the starting price to 10x what it is now. The reverse auction system is a great idea, but pointless when the starting price is a fraction of what people are willing to pay.

there are people who have many alts with many houses - sure the number with 20+ might be pretty few (though they're draining resources extraordinarily) there are many people have 10+ also.

How many people do you personally know of? You're trying to gets the townspeople to break out the torches and pitchforks with incredibly vague information.

Also, are these people that are permanently holding on to these large quantities of houses, or are they simply buying and reselling them? Resellers aren't draining resources; they're just shifting them from people that camp the housing districts and get lucky to those that have large amounts of gil.

[OliviaJ]

How is the reclamation going on other servers? On Diabolos it's working as it should. I'm still seeing smalls nightly in all three areas open up every hour or two. Mediums are a little rarer and you never see a large but in this period between content the system seems to be working just fine. I'd consider us a medium pop server.

[Besame]

The 2 houses across from mine sat for 3 months with no one around and no decos. They both came available for around 1.6 mil a couple of weeks ago, I expect after the 45 day demolish. They were both recently bought maybe a week ago and same thing. No people around and no decos and so it goes.

[Pyrali]

SE will probably be able to do more with housing once they drop the dead weight that is the PS3. And by do more I mean add more, and up limits/caps ect.

[Dustytome]

SE will probably be able to do more with housing once they drop the dead weight that is the PS3. And by do more I mean add more, and up limits/caps ect.

I'm not so sure they'll be able to do much in regards to actual housing availability. It's not like they're feeding information for every ward available to the ps3 at once. You request to go to the ward, then the servers feed you the information for that particular ward. If their side could handle storing thousand wards, the ps3 could probably keep up. At best they might be able to ease up on the furniture limits with more rendering power from the ps4.

[Naunet]

SE will probably be able to do more with housing once they drop the dead weight that is the PS3. And by do more I mean add more, and up limits/caps ect.

SE's housing issues have a lot more to do with poorly thought out server infrastructure than PS3 limitations, unfortunately.

[Illmaeran]

Necroing out of interest; check out the date the OP was written. What's worse, having to pay tens of millions of Gil to buy a plot off a reseller or camping a placard for an unknown amount of time clicking so much that your fingers, mouse, keyboard, controller buttons break?

*sigh*

[Sotaris]

Necroing out of interest; check out the date the OP was written. What's worse, having to pay tens of millions of Gil to buy a plot off a reseller or camping a placard for an unknown amount of time clicking so much that your fingers, mouse, keyboard, controller buttons break?

*sigh*

or soon, pay for a lottery ticket and fight against 100s of people to win a rng game.

[Frizze]

If youre placard camping youre doing it wrong. If the house isnt available go play the game and check back in a couple hours. It seems like it wouldnt work, but a lot more people then you think succeed in getting houses that way - even on the busiest servers.

As for the necro, my memory isnt sharp enough to remember the exact tenor of the housing board 5 years ago(nor am i bored enough to scroll back 100 pages to find out). And thats if i even skimmed it back then. That would be mid-HW, so im not sure i did - didnt get a house until some point in the stormblood cycle. For some reason i dont think Lily was the one who originated the random timer idea, and this probly wasnt the first thread it was brought up in. I find it amusing that the first reply a bit over an hour later had the exact work around that the resellers would end up using, but i dont remember if this was also brought up commonly back then too. Today you see constant asks for a lottery, and in every one someone(or multiple someones) points out that it wont help you get a house - it only stands to stop people from hurting themselves because they dont use the system the way it was intended. Wonder if someone will necro one of these in 5 years for a similar reason. Hmmm.

[Elemenz]

Best ways are: lottery, and 1 plot/acc limit.
That's by far the best solution. No matter how rich you are, you can't buy more than 1 house/plot.

And if a plot in high demand has 100 offers, doesn't matter who has the most gil, everyone gets a equal rng lottery shot at it. As long as they can cover the entry fee ofc, with full gil refund if they don't win the rights to the plot.