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  1. #1
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    SparkleStarwind's Avatar
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    Ravi Rune
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    Sophia
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    Conjurer Lv 3

    <MATERIA> First-Come First-Served AND Lottery Plots

    The Materia DC has been anticipating the release of 6.1 housing and in today's Live Letter, it was announced that all plots would initially be lottery-based.

    This puts many people in a tough spot and also heavily encourages the use of alt accounts and bots. Many of the Materia community ask the dev team to reconsider this 100% lottery-plot plan and make half of the wards first-come, first-served as it was in the past.

    This new system heavily favors numbers. Materia is still a fledgling data center, and with a small community, we'd all like a chance at houses.

    I'm sure that within the community there are many personal reasons that people will also have for not wanting a lottery-based system enabled in all wards.

    On behalf of the players, I urge you to reconsider.
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    Shibi's Avatar
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    Lala Felon
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    Zurvan
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    Gunbreaker Lv 80
    Frankly, For Materia, I want housing in LB, Mist, Goblet, and Shirogane opened as soon as possible, fcfs.

    Then we can do ishgard like all other data centres.

    There isn't any sensible reason to keep delaying our ability to buy a house.

    We've been open a month and we got 1,000,000g bonus for new characters, and another million gil bonus for transferring over an apartment. With earning over the month, it's more than enough for many people to start buying.
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  3. #3
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    Altria Pendragons
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    Leviathan
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    Ninja Lv 100
    They are giving fresh players a chance to compete with all of you who moved there with gils.
    Not my business, just saying.
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  4. #4
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    LunaFancy's Avatar
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    P'ahkti Coeurleone
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    Zurvan
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    Bard Lv 90
    I agree with OP. Housing in new worlds should at the very least open with the four systems outlined prior to the slide that indicates all will lottery in 6.1.

    It makes no sense to run a lottery only system when opening housing on new worlds in a new data-centre, no sense at all.

    Many of us left houses on our old worlds to support the opening of the new data-centre, it seems unfair to subject us all to the mercy of RNG only in our attempt to reclaim what we gave up.

    Some lottery and some FCFS would be the fairest solution.
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  5. #5
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    Damp Toe
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    Kujata
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    Bard Lv 100
    Materia likely won't have the same problems with housing supply that other data centres have, so I don't think the lottery serves much of a purpose here.
    At best, it should just be an option for those people who might prefer it, even though I think majority FCFS makes more sense for a new DC like ours.

    Making all plots lottery-based just delays opening up an entire section of the game that is currently closed off to OCE players.

    Other than it taking longer to be able to play a large part of the game, this delays starting up our already slow economy where an entire category of items is unsellable. It delays our ability to build a new community. There is no supply for certain glamour items that come from submarines and airships too.

    As a personal side note, crafting without housing merchants is unpleasant and I can't wait to get out of Limsa.
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    Last edited by Damptoe; 02-19-2022 at 05:19 PM.

  6. #6
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    LunaFancy's Avatar
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    P'ahkti Coeurleone
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    Zurvan
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    Bard Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by Damptoe View Post
    As a personal side note, crafting without housing merchants is unpleasant and I can't wait to get out of Limsa.
    I've taken to spending time at the MB in Empyreum when crafting- at least I have a summoning bell and MB right there lol! But I am not doing well as a hobo, not going to lie.
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  7. #7
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    Taitaibun's Avatar
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    Tai Tempest
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    Bismarck
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    Gunbreaker Lv 90
    I agree and I am also rioting over an all lottery system.
    This is plain unfair to those of us who dislike the lottery system, to those of us who are fine with the effort needed for first come first serve, to those of us who have already given up our houses on other datacenters only to be told we're running on another chance.

    It is illogical to go through this lottery system on a low population data center where there are going to be 7200 houses opening per server and there might not even be that many people wanting a house. Hell, there might not even be that many people on the actual server. A couple servers on Materia have populations under 2000 people. Houses greatly outnumber players and those who possibly want a house.
    The lottery system is intended for larger servers and datacenters who have an active need for a housing system change.
    Some wards being first come first serve makes it easier for those who want their dream house, for an fc that immediately wants to work on engaging content for their community to go get a house and dive into it, for those who want to garden and decorate.
    This will just be a hinderance on a player or free companies time to begin what they want to do in this game and gatekeeps content.

    Materia should be half first come first serve and half lottery. This way, everyone gets what they want with housing and those who want to immediately do their housing content have the ability to do so.
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  8. #8
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    Meowsalotte's Avatar
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    Charlotte Mori
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    Ravana
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    Astrologian Lv 100
    I agree completely, at least reconsider Materia because it's a completely new data center with new worlds. I left my medium house behind and now I don't want to have to fight a lottery just to even get a small.
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  9. #9
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    Lala Felon
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    Zurvan
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    Gunbreaker Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Divinemights View Post
    They are giving fresh players a chance to compete with all of you who moved there with gils.
    Not my business, just saying.
    Nothing about moving over with gil. I started a brand new character on Materia, from level 1. It's been a month, and there is no need to wait longer.

    Certainly not until April. Open the old housing zones right now, FCFS, just as the other regions have, and then so there is no difference, open Emperyum the same as the other 3 regions.

    But right now, Materia is being quite disadvantaged should housing be lottery come April.

    Quote Originally Posted by Taitaibun View Post
    A couple servers on Materia have populations under 2000 people
    Sophia 30,002
    Sephirot 26,935
    Ravana 25,881
    Bismarck 17,226
    Zurvan 12,197

    The under 2000 is people who have finished Endwalker. But you don't need this to have earned enough to buy a home, not with Materia X prices how they are. heh.
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    Last edited by Shibi; 02-19-2022 at 05:35 PM.
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  10. #10
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    Inara Flamesong
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    Zurvan
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    Dark Knight Lv 90
    We've all been rather patient in the hopes of getting a house. To find that it will all be a lottery system gives a lot of us anxiety.
    As a head of an FC, I am painfully aware that a house is a requirement for a lot of content (workshops, vendors, crafting stations, personal rooms in the FC house, GARDENING - can't grow my Thavnairian Onion anywhere else). We got locked out of this content on the other Data Centers as personal housing competes with the FC housing. Give us a fighting chance!

    With a lottery system, it would take a fixed amount of time to know if we have missed out on our first choice before we can look at our back-up alternatives. With First come First served, we can run around and buy an empty plot.

    You mentioned in the Live Letter that FCFS may be an option if there is demand. We are all trying to show you that demand is here, now. Please.
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