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

[Haru_au]

The way this system is designed, and being applied to materia, makes me deeply regret giving up my houses to come here.

Good luck getting a plot on Sophia or Ravana, the only saving grace might be that the population isn't high enough to fill all the wards. Of course there will be a rush towards the end of the first draw, to get bids down on plots that nobody else has bid on yet. Leaving scraps at best for anyone who missed out in the first round.

Also this:

Characters who fulfill the requirements below are eligible to submit one lottery entry per lottery period.

Is a slap in the face to FC leaders. We have to choose between buying a house for our FC, or buying one for ourselves? And/or ask the same of our officers?

I was actually looking forward to the lottery system, but this is poorly designed.

[LunaFancy]

The way this system is designed, and being applied to materia, makes me deeply regret giving up my houses to come here.

Good luck getting a plot on Sophia or Ravana, the only saving grace might be that the population isn't high enough to fill all the wards. Of course there will be a rush towards the end of the first draw, to get bids down on plots that nobody else has bid on yet. Leaving scraps at best for anyone who missed out in the first round.

Also this:

Is a slap in the face to FC leaders. We have to choose between buying a house for our FC, or buying one for ourselves? And/or ask the same of our officers?

I was actually looking forward to the lottery system, but this is poorly designed.

I have an alt to buy for my FC for this reason, you still have time to do the same seeing as the 30 day timer only applies to transfer of leadership.

The way they handled the Materia data centre has really dimmed my view of the devs, I gave up a large house to support the move and this feels like a slap in the face from them.

[Shibi]

I have an alt to buy for my FC for this reason, you still have time to do the same seeing as the 30 day timer only applies to transfer of leadership.

The 30 days applies to buy too. An alt put in today can't buy on the 11th.

The way they handled the Materia data centre has really dimmed my view of the devs, I gave up a large house to support the move and this feels like a slap in the face from them.

Big time.

[LunaFancy]

The 30 days applies to buy too. An alt put in today can't buy on the 11th.

Oh damn. Good thing that I used my alts to found the FC I guess lol!

At this point the fact that I really love hanging out with the people in my FC is the only thing that will keep me in the game. If my second account doesn't get his house, that is a sub I will cancel for sure. I wonder how many people they will lose over this in the end tbh.

[Shibi]

I wonder how many people they will lose over this in the end tbh.

I am not going to keep putting all that effort into a new alt if he's homeless.

[Jojoya]

I have an alt to buy for my FC for this reason, you still have time to do the same seeing as the 30 day timer only applies to transfer of leadership.

They had said in the live letter that it would also apply to giving members a rank with land acquisition privileges.

What is uncertain is if an alt could be added as a new member to a FC today and given a rank with land acquisition privileges, and would then retain the privilege once 6.1 is released since they would already have been given the rank and privilege under the current rules. SE doesn't tend to remove things retroactively.

At this point, there's no harm in trying just in case. It won't make a FC any worse off, and it might actually work to its advantage.

[DeNada]

They had said in the live letter that it would also apply to giving members a rank with land acquisition privileges.

What is uncertain is if an alt could be added as a new member to a FC today and given a rank with land acquisition privileges, and would then retain the privilege once 6.1 is released since they would already have been given the rank and privilege under the current rules. SE doesn't tend to remove things retroactively.

At this point, there's no harm in trying just in case. It won't make a FC any worse off, and it might actually work to its advantage.

I don't think that will be workable though, since the new requirements for purchasing a new FC plot is that you need to be a member of the FC for at least 30 days.

Doesn't matter if you have land acquisition privelege or not in any case since the 30 days requirement will override it.

[Jojoya]

I don't think that will be workable though, since the new requirements for purchasing a new FC plot is that you need to be a member of the FC for at least 30 days.

Doesn't matter if you have land acquisition privelege or not in any case since the 30 days requirement will override it.

I saw that, but I still have to wonder if that's actually separate because during the live letter they said that members still in their new member period could not be granted the land acquisition privilege, not that there would be a blanket block regardless of what rank privileges they have.

Like I said, at this point it doesn't hurt a FC adding more alts to give it a try. They won't be any worse off if it doesn't work and it could be to their benefit if it does.

Regardless, it's only going to have a measurable impact on those who didn't prepared in advance. Those intending to abuse the system would have been stocking their FCs with the needed characters the week after the Live Letter if they hadn't already done it. Those characters will be past their 30 days by the time the patch is released (I'm assuming that will be April 12th). Flippers will still be able to get rid of their houses since they can move a 30-day character that wasn't the "buyer" into the FC master position then transfer the rest into a series of FCs rotating through buy/wait schedules. There's still a lot of holes in the system for flippers to slip through. Winning a lottery (once all the available plots are reduced to a few per lottery period) is more of a barrier than the new member restrictions, and they'll probably be able to make more money per sale from those not interested in fighting the lottery odds.