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

[NanaWiloh]

Do people want empty plots to buy or full wards?? Seems to be some contridication going on..

[Jojoya]

What confuses me is parts that go against each other, not very clear information:

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...5c5bb27b61905c

"Methods of Purchasing Land
Depending on the housing ward, land may be purchased on a first-come, first-served basis, or by lottery.

At the release of Patch 6.1, all land available for purchase will be subject to the lottery system."

I understand the last sentence, but the first one makes it sound like fcfs areas might be coming to some wards/areas (I understand not Ishgard, they want that to be lottery, but the older areas, specially on Materia with 0 taken?)?

Also:
"* Methods of purchasing land and/or purchase availability may vary by World in future updates."

I hope that this might help Materia DC out specifically, we have literally no homes. 7000+ per server will take a fair while to fill up, and waiting 5 days each time you attempt, could be weeks or months depending on the RNG and if anythings even left. FC's will have it a bit easier hopefully, as a lot of people from the FC can be bidding on 1 plot, making their chances go up significantly depending on number of bidders.

They're saying that the system has been programmed to allow FCFS if SE should decide there is a need for it in the future (and probably once they get an idea of whether the FC changes have managed to curb reselling).

If Materia wards do not fill up fairly quickly via the lottery, SE may choose to switch some of them to FCFS. The lottery doesn't serve much purpose if there are not enough players/FCs interested in buying a plot. Might as well set at least some of them to FCFS if there are still lots of vacancies after the first two lottery periods. SE has a good idea of how many characters and FCs on each world are currently purchase eligible. I'm guessing those numbers are high enough that they wanted to go only with lottery for now so they could gauge actual interest.

I doubt very much that the current NA and EU worlds will be seeing any FCFS at any time in the foreseeable worlds. The new worlds being added in July and August might see FCFS depending on what happens with the Materia worlds and how many players transfer/roll new characters on those worlds once opened.

Do people want empty plots to buy or full wards?? Seems to be some contridication going on..

Not really.

Players want empty wards so there's something available when they're ready to buy. Once they've purchased, they want full wards so they aren't staring at a sea of empty plots (I remember that well from 4.2 - it took 10 months for my ward to fill up).