Questions about FC Lotto and FC/FS wards.

[Nepentha]

They didn't state an answer to your first question but I imagine it will be mentioned when housing is discussed again prior to 6.1.

It would make no sense for purchase refunds to go to someone other than the player who purchases the entry, even if it's on behalf of a FC. There's always had to be some level of trust between a FC and the members allowed to purchase land when it comes to the gil.

That's not what I meant. I meant is the extra gil they put in refunded, or is it simply the price of adding extra tickets for the FC.

Why wouldn't brand new FCs be allowed to purchase as long as all other requirements are met?

When you track these resellers the way I do, you see very clear patterns. Too many times I've seen an FC created on a Monday already have a house on Tuesday, passed off to a lvl 1 alt (if they haven't already sold it), and have created a new FC they are either in the process of leveling up to 6, or have already done so and are prepared for the next placard clickwar.

These operations count on fast sales, they want to unload their houses asap and move on to the next one. It's the opposite of the medium/large plot snipers, who hold onto their plots to sell to the highest bidder. The only way to hamper these operations is to force them to slow down. If they have to wait for their FC to be so many days old rather than run to placard click soon as it hits lvl 6 (which, btw, takes literally half an hour or less if you know what you're doing and they do), it'll definitely make them have to rethink how they do things. Put the FC master restrictions on top of that and it won't entirely stop them, but it will definitely throw a monkey wrench into their current dynamic.

YoshiP specifically stated they will have systems in the background monitoring house purchases and player accounts with unusual housing related activity might be deemed in violation of the ToS (obstruction of others' game play).

I read your reply last night and rather than kneejerk, I decided to sleep on it. Basically, SE has lost my faith and my trust in their ability to handle problem players. After years of reports filed by hundreds of people, these same botters and resellers have been operating with impunity. While all these measures are nice, it would have been nicer if they'd actually read our reports and taken them seriously and handled players who were clearly violating the rules.

If you swear at someone in game, a GM will be in your grill within a few hours if not sooner. If you abuse housing for years by using a bot program, nothing is going to happen to you.

I don't believe they will hold this up on their end of things. They will have to earn back my trust on this front, by showing the playerbase that violating the ToS actually has consequences. Because right now? It doesn't.

Why do you think these changes will result in a flood of clickbots? The vast majority of wards are expected to be lottery, making a clickbot useless. Unless you're talking about clickbots in the period leading up to 6.1, not after. And I doubt SE is going to care about those anymore than they care about them right now since it will only be a temporary problem.

Where did they say the vast majority of wards will be lotto only? Far as I could see, they didn't really talk about the split.