Such devastation... this was NOT my intention...

[Divinemights]

My issue with the current system is it encourages an unhealthy playstyle of clicking on placards.

The announced changes are an excellent step in the right direction.

I wish they were more restrictive at an account level for estate ownership, but I'm not going to throw out changes because they're not exactly what I want when they're still a step in the right direction.

In 2022, you are going to see people wishing this lottery system was never in place

[van_arn]

In 2022, you are going to see people wishing this lottery system was never in place

Of course, people will be furious they "never get a house." Which is going to happen anyway with a highly-contested limited resource.

The difference is people will eventually no longer have an option to stare at a placard and click it for up to 24 hours, and that's a good change for the game.

I'd be fine with SE forcibly removing housing from multi-estate owners, multi server/dc-estate owners, and "trickle activity" owners. Those can wait for now, but the relocation and transfer limitations will put a good damper some of those players anyway.

[Dhalya]

The biggest issue is that it becomes so convenient and easy that everyone will join the lotteries, making it much harder for people that really care about this content, we can already see at least 40% of houses being empty-ish or with few quest rewarded furniture thrown around randomly... so yeah not too happy about this

[Xirean]

The biggest issue is that it becomes so convenient and easy that everyone will join the lotteries, making it much harder for people that really care about this content, we can already see at least 40% of houses being empty-ish or with few quest rewarded furniture thrown around randomly... so yeah not too happy about this

More people being able to try housing sounds like a good thing.

[Epowerj]

I have mixed feelings about the new system. On one hand, we won't need to click for 12 hours for a chance at a house. On the other hand, the system is now based entirely on luck while at the same time making housing much easier to try for, meaning that there will be a lot more competition. Also, it doesn't completely get rid of bots. A botter could still create a couple dozen alts that each put in their bid for the house, use that house as a FC house, then sell the FC.


In truth, I don't think any system would help the housing situation. As long as there are more people who want a house than there are houses, there will always be a housing shortage. No matter the housing system, getting a house would need to either be gated on luck, time investment, or gil. Or maybe FC size.
The only real solution is to increase the the amount of available houses.

[lezard21]

A botter could still create a couple dozen alts that each put in their bid for the house, use that house as a FC house, then sell the FC.

Haven't thought about this. Yep, RIP housing in 6.1. It gonna get destroyed by botters and RMT sellers. I'd like to hope that Yoshi-P and the devs check the forums so we can avoid this potential disaster.

[Moonlite]

Haven't thought about this. Yep, RIP housing in 6.1. It gonna get destroyed by botters and RMT sellers. I'd like to hope that Yoshi-P and the devs check the forums so we can avoid this potential disaster.

They have new anti FC trading measures. If they work we will see. Cheaters are always smarter than devs no matter what game it is. Also didn't they say only one bid per account per data centre? They would have to have dozens of paid accounts. Other wise the max amount of bids they could place at a time would be what 9?