Housing failure... Again, and a few other comments

[Bsrking5]

I was kinda surprised they let you make lotto bids on alts, too. Glad I leveled 8 characters.

It does? I thought you could only do one per service account. Im 100% sure i seen someone already said that.

[hydralus]

It does? I thought you could only do one per service account. Im 100% sure i seen someone already said that.

It let me put a ticket in the lottery for every alt so either it's not working as intended or there was some confusion.

[Krotoan]

It let me put a ticket in the lottery for every alt so either it's not working as intended or there was some confusion.

Was this for an FC house? does your FC already have a house?



Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

Edit:
Just tried placing one more bid for another plot and got: "You may only submit one lottery entry per lottery period."
Even tried placing that extra bid from my second character and got: "No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account" error. But thats for FC and we already have a house and simply try to relocate. May be it's only possible for those who don't own a house whatsoever?

[hydralus]

Was this for an FC house? does your FC already have a house?



Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

No it's for a personal.

[ZeroRaziel]

Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

I assume that noone is lying here. It seems that there are accounts which can make only one single bid per all characters and there are others that can bid with all 8. So far seems like it was intentional on SE part.
This issue has been more or less elaborated in one of the "Housing" forum threads:

FURTHER DISCUSSION

Whoever purchased the FC house from the placard is the one who is flagged and locked to a single lotto ticket entry ONLY on the character that did the purchasing. Any alternate characters in the FC will get an error message that the service account is locked from buying more tickets. Everyone else in the FC who meets the criteria (are members for at least 30 days, have permission to buy/relocate, and have the money on hand, etc) can buy tickets on every character they have in the FC.

If the character who purchased the house from the placard (and is still actively in the FC) leaves the FC, all of this unlocks and resets. (Do not do this. Leaving the FC and returning to it will just trigger the 30 day membership rule and screw you out of a ticket if you already bought one.)

I can see what SE is attempting here, but it's backwards. If you're trying to prevent people from buying more FC houses with shell FCs, there are better ways to do this. You're just locking some people out of lotto tickets who simply want to help relocate their FC to a new plot.

Flagged accounts should only be restricted from purchasing brand new housing, not moving current housing to a new plot.