Will lottery destroy or fix housing?

[Zaniel]

It's all relative, clearly the lottery is an improvement but going from 1/10 to 2/10 isn't awesome. However, going from 3/10 to 8+/10 just isn't happening because they haven't rebuilt the entire housing structure, so while we can be disappointed in not getting a full rebuild there is no point being a lunatic and pretending the lottery is not an objective improvement.

[Broken_Wind]

I think they should have luxury apartments
Allow players to choose from a couple different layouts (one of which has a garden area for crossbreeding if they choose)

Not as desirable as houses, yet more attractive then the current apartments

[HeyMcFly]

The lottery only keeps people from sniping
It doesn't solve any other problems, if anything adds more frustration due to empty FC plots that will be available for bots to seize with their hoards of gold

[Solarra]

It certainly won't destroy housing but it won't fix it, either.
This system is slightly fairer than what we have right now, but without a significant increase in the actual number of houses I think a lot of people are going to remain frustrated and disappointed.

Being a pessimist, I expect to see a huge upswing in FC dramas as multiple members are given gil to buy tickets for their FC, because there seems to be ample room for people to make honest mistakes. e.g. I can imagine people doing silly things like accidentally buying a private plot or changing Grand Company during the lottery period and not realising that failing to rank up again will invalidate their ticket.
As well as that, of course, there will always be people who see an opportunity to scam a FC and will take it.

[GeminiReed]

As well as that, of course, there will always be people who see an opportunity to scam a FC and will take it.

This one is easy to avoid or at least mitigate. Require the recipient of funds to state in FC chat that they will use the funds to place a bid on the agreed upon FC plot and will return the proceeds if the bid was not successful. Because it's logged in-game it's something the GM's can act on and have done so in the past.

The one silver lining in the whole ward 1-18 mess is that it's impossible to place a Private bid there.

[Catwho]

It won't fix it. All it will fix is people standing outside of a placard for 16-18 hours straight making themselves sick spamming it.

Reminds me of the old Pandemonium Warden fiasco in FFXI. The boss may or may not have been bugged, or the people trying to kill it may or or may not have been doing it wrong, but the first kill attempt took 18 hours. SE then patched it to despawn after 2 hours.

[Seig345]

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The community have actually put a lot of effort into making the awful click placard system work, the aforementioned script, housing alert servers, charts displaying peak chance times on a case to case basis [...]

Some of the community have put effort into a system that isn't inherently visible to players who simply log into the game. The fact that some people had better odds with the player-made system relied on the fact that the entire player-base wasn't aware of it or willing to go to such extremes to get a house.

That system wouldn't have been necessary if the upcoming lottery system had been in place in the first place. Until they find a way (or the will) to fix the bigger issue altogether, any in-game replacement of a "meta" community solution was always going to make the odds worse for those "in the know" by increasing the accessibility and the number of players who are "in the know".

Yes, they nerfed Housing Extreme and made it easier for "casuals" (even if only a little).

[Bearded]

Lottery will not destroy housing as it was doomed to fail without any proper fix like instancing. More people want housing than SE can supply houses for. Even those who do not actually want houses get housing things thrown at them for rewards and end up looking for a house just to put the damn things in.

It was failed from the start and this could have been a chance for them to fix it by having instanced (and infinite) housing but they chose to recycle more of the same old.

Best housing solution in an MMORPG is probably that seen in SW:TOR - many options for budgets. No supply issues and no silly resale market.

[Seraphor]

No difference, there won't be any more houses to go around, just different people getting lucky.

[MistyMew]

It cant get any worse, but it will not fix it.
Applying yet another band-aid will only hide the problem as it continues to fester underneath.


There's only a solution when everyone can have a home, anytime they wish,.. with no shady demolitions for actual subscribers (lol)