Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

[Shibi]

I hope you do manage to get one.

Thanks Jojoya. I do want to start growing my FC, but I have never started this task - in this game or other MMOs - without having the base of operations first. Others claim a homeless community can be formed with everyone sitting in Limsa, but this goes against what I have seen in some 18 years of MMO playing.

At this point, with 6 alts over 2 service accounts I think I will do 1 FC bid on a Mist Medium, and 5 FC bids on a Mist small, and just hope I can deflect people towards other small plots. To maximise my chances for the FC I will forego a personal.

So we look to Materia over the next month. What will actually happen with housing on the Materia worlds? Some believe there are already too many players and FCs, and that everything will sell out. Others think there are almost no players eligible to buy and the wards will remain mostly empty. It's a learning experience for all of us, and hopefully SE will take those lessons to heart when it's time to open the new worlds for EU and NA this summer.

One thing we have learnt already is that 90+ days for release is just too long to cement a community together, and those first days are 100% crucial to do it in. 90+ days also allows far too many gil sellers to grind up their shell FCs - this could more prevalent when JP/EU/NA words become available as there will be intra-DC travel for those by then.

The no-housing lockout on JP/NA/EU worlds will been to be longer than the 30 day minimum FC membership, maybe 45 or 60, but I really hope that SE learn from what I see as huge mistakes they made for us, and don't lock the rest of the world out for 90+ days again. That was bone-headed of them.