Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

[Jojoya]

They never even alluded to the entirety of Materia being lottery. Even when they started muttering about the possibility they teased us with partial FCFS and partial lottery.

And why on earth would there be people who don't want houses in anyone's FC? Do you understand that not a single soul on the data centre has had the ability to purchase a plot until now? God even people who have never wanted it before are going to be lotting on OCE to 'try their luck'. .

I give up, I swear it's like banging my head against a brick wall trying to explain that the situation on Materia is not like the situation on every other data centre.

They also never alluded to Materia being treated different from the other data centers. Again, always better to plan for the worst case scenario.

Not every player cares about housing. That's not difficult to understand. That doesn't mean they don't want to be part of a social group like a FC. FCs aren't about housing.

If someone has two (or more) characters in a FC, only one is capable of owning a personal house unless each character is on a separate service accounts. That leaves one to buy a personal house and the rest to help out the FC.

We understand that Materia's situation (for now) is different from other data centers. We get that players there are increasingly frustrated. If it had been up to me, I would have made housing available 4 weeks after the worlds opened - plenty of time for veterans to get their characters transferred or new players and reroll characters for veterans leveled enough to be eligible to purchase. I feel it is a bad decision for SE to wait as long as they have to give you access to housing.

It doesn't change that SE has chosen for its reasons of its own to wait until 6.1 and apply the lottery to all Materia wards just as they are doing with all other regions. We can't change things for you. Only SE can do it and at this point they probably don't have the time needed with all the other things they need to do to prepare for the patch release.

I still don't see any problems for Materia given the extremely low number of current active player there.

Anyone who just want a house WILL get a house provided they aren't fussy and go for unicorn plots.

I think someone looked up the numbers and even on Ravana which is the most populous Materia server, there are only about 1K free companies, and that's not discounting those which are ineligible for housing at 6.1 due to being new or not rank 6.

Just to put things in perspective, there are going to be 7k new plots per server and from what Yoshi-P alluded in the latest live letter, they will be allocating more plots for FCs so at least half or 3.5k plots will be available for FCs alone.

Simply put, empty wards are going to be more of an issue then players not being able to secure a house.

But it could be a problem for those who were hoping to secure a medium or large for their FC at the same time they wanted to secure a medium or large for themselves. There's only going to be 720 large houses and 1680 mediums. It's hard to say how many players transferred characters to the Materia worlds with sufficient gil (or more) to buy those prime plots and if they've spreading any excess gil around the community to stimulate the economy.