All vacant plots in all wards and districts should be raffled, not camped

[Johners]

As the title says, all the vacant plots should be raffled instead of just the new plots coming with Ishgard's housing district in patch 6.1.

There's at least one vacant plot on the server I play on Lich, that has come up since the release of OCE servers and I suspect more will come in the next 12-24 hours as the paid transfers open up.

A lot of players want to buy a house and the current system of camping a plot on the timer promotes both botting and just unhealthy of gameplay of spamming the purchase land button until it becomes available in the hopes you are first. This is how my FC acquired a small plot in The Goblet last year, someone camped until whatever stupid time at like 4 AM to buy it.

I'd like to see all existing plots that become vacant raffled on a 14 day timer once they become vacant. That gives people enough time to make an entry into the raffle without it taking months to become occupied again.

Likewise, there should really be a limit of one house per game license across all servers/DCs with said change being retroactively applied. I know it probably affects a few players but there's also a limited number of housing plots in comparison to the amount of people playing, this would be an entirely fair change.

I'm aware that SE are just adapting a system that was clearly designed with a smaller player pool in mind, but I feel like they're leaving it too late to actually fix the house acquisition system. I know private islands are coming but they're not the same feeling as being in a community alongside other players.

[Veranolth]

They're doing the lottery system in 6.1 for housing.

[Skivvy]

I feel 14 days is way, way too long. I'm hoping it's on a 24 or 48 hour timer.

[Moonlite]

I feel 14 days is way, way too long. I'm hoping it's on a 24 or 48 hour timer.

The speed at which SE implements housing improvements(i know questionable improvement) 14 days is light speed.

[Maxilor]

Boy do I have good news for you then.

[Vahlnir]

I feel 14 days is way, way too long. I'm hoping it's on a 24 or 48 hour timer.

Yeah, I would argue that even a day is too long for a raffle like this. I don't really like the idea of having 50 mil tied up for a few days to a week while I wait to lose the raffle on a large. lol

[Shibi]

As the title says, all the vacant plots should be raffled instead of just the new plots coming with Ishgard's housing district in patch 6.1.

Let's make it regional based then please. At the moment we don't have the ability to buy at all on OCE, and there will be 36,000 plots opening over our region. All of them being lotto in OCE will just delay things, especially if the lotto is 14 days long.

[Lunalepsy]

As the title says, all the vacant plots should be raffled instead of just the new plots coming with Ishgard's housing district in patch 6.1.

There's at least one vacant plot on the server I play on Lich, that has come up since the release of OCE servers and I suspect more will come in the next 12-24 hours as the paid transfers open up.

A lot of players want to buy a house and the current system of camping a plot on the timer promotes both botting and just unhealthy of gameplay of spamming the purchase land button until it becomes available in the hopes you are first. This is how my FC acquired a small plot in The Goblet last year, someone camped until whatever stupid time at like 4 AM to buy it.

I'd like to see all existing plots that become vacant raffled on a 14 day timer once they become vacant. That gives people enough time to make an entry into the raffle without it taking months to become occupied again.

Likewise, there should really be a limit of one house per game license across all servers/DCs with said change being retroactively applied. I know it probably affects a few players but there's also a limited number of housing plots in comparison to the amount of people playing, this would be an entirely fair change.

I'm aware that SE are just adapting a system that was clearly designed with a smaller player pool in mind, but I feel like they're leaving it too late to actually fix the house acquisition system. I know private islands are coming but they're not the same feeling as being in a community alongside other players.

Please look forward to it.

[Yodada]

As the title says, all the vacant plots should be raffled instead of just the new plots coming with Ishgard's housing district in patch 6.1.

There's at least one vacant plot on the server I play on Lich, that has come up since the release of OCE servers and I suspect more will come in the next 12-24 hours as the paid transfers open up.

A lot of players want to buy a house and the current system of camping a plot on the timer promotes both botting and just unhealthy of gameplay of spamming the purchase land button until it becomes available in the hopes you are first. This is how my FC acquired a small plot in The Goblet last year, someone camped until whatever stupid time at like 4 AM to buy it.

I'd like to see all existing plots that become vacant raffled on a 14 day timer once they become vacant. That gives people enough time to make an entry into the raffle without it taking months to become occupied again.

Likewise, there should really be a limit of one house per game license across all servers/DCs with said change being retroactively applied. I know it probably affects a few players but there's also a limited number of housing plots in comparison to the amount of people playing, this would be an entirely fair change.

I'm aware that SE are just adapting a system that was clearly designed with a smaller player pool in mind, but I feel like they're leaving it too late to actually fix the house acquisition system. I know private islands are coming but they're not the same feeling as being in a community alongside other players.

Never heard of "Prime Time" for Plots, Huh? Whoever is going to camp fore more then 4 hours is just lazy to look and ask for proper information.
But dont tell anyone :P You may want to have a small advantage over those tired or sleepy 24 hours Camper :P

[Johners]

Let's make it regional based then please. At the moment we don't have the ability to buy at all on OCE, and there will be 36,000 plots opening over our region. All of them being lotto in OCE will just delay things, especially if the lotto is 14 days long.

I still don't see an issue with it being a lotto. Given that pretty much every good plot will be camped by many people, your chance of getting it is basically RNG anyway. By raffling everything, even if it's on a staggered system where one ward per district is done at a time, means everyone gets a fair chance at everything. You're not all going to get a house but making it some right of passage to wait for a random timer to kick in isn't exactly fair or good design.

OCE servers are entirely fresh, there's no rush to get everything up to speed. It'll all be dealt with in time, I don't see why waiting and giving everyone a fair chance at a house is a bad idea.