Broken Lottery, Please Rollback

[Greyhawk]

It makes sense for them to code in a failsafe of sorts for plots with no bidders. However, I’m fairly certain that you can design code to “ignore ‘0’ if x condition is met”, which, in this case would be “ignore ‘0’ if plot has active bids”. The more I think on this, the more I’m starting to believe that this 0 is not a bug and was 100% intentional.

From the Housing Lottery notes: "One winning entry will be randomly selected from the pool of applicants, and the player who submitted that entry will gain the ability to finalize their purchase of the plot."

That tells me that there will and should be a winner, not a possibility that no one would get it.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...796b3f56abbd28

[HyoMinPark]

From the Housing Lottery notes: "One winning entry will be randomly selected from the pool of applicants, and the player who submitted that entry will gain the ability to finalize their purchase of the plot."

That tells me that there will and should be a winner, not a possibility that no one would get it.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...796b3f56abbd28

Yes, I know. And that ultimately depends on what their definition of “winning entry” is. If it is one made by an actual player, or the failsafe.

I have no faith in the development team when it comes to housing in this game. So this might just be my cynicism showing. Either way, this looks bad on them: either they launched this system with it bugged (because clearly they didn’t try to test their code), or they launched a system with a possibility that no one won.