Lottery extended to 4/29

[Rokke]

THEY CAN STILL HAVE A HIGHER CHANCE OF GETTING THE PLOT, and ruin the fairness of the lottery system. You shouldn't have to bid against one persons multiple characters, or feel like you have to start working on multiple characters as fast as possible in order to get a lot. That will just make this problem worse. Stop using alts to increase your chance on a house. It's bad taste, and will make the lottery system worse if it becomes a trend.

You are missing the forest for the trees. It doesn't matter how much gil a person has, if said person did not already own multiple houses across multiple characters on the same server before the newest restrictions went live then, as of 6.0, they only get one personal house on their server. Its not really worth wasting your lone personal plot on an alt that your main cannot easily take advantage of so alts buying houses will not be a trend unless we're talking shell FCs.

And thats a whole 'nother issue.

[Budimir]

My primary question was how do you generate enough venture tokens to keep them running? Is it just seals earned by turning in gear you get during your daily roulettes? If I were sending out all my retainers on hunting ventures more than once or twice a day I'd quickly run out of coins to pay them with. Every so often I'll do an hour of quick Shisui of the Violet Tides farming to get seals if I'm on a net-negative streak, but I'd rather get what I need doing things I already do, like roulettes. I agree; the value of the materials is much more than the Gil cost, it's the time saved by being able to not run FATEs all the time for the gems to buy the materials...especially leather!

Except for trading in gear from your dungeon runs for seals (which is an excellent way to farm ventures when leveling), in my opinion, sending your retainers on quick explorations is the best way to earn ventures. At max level, my retainers regularly bring in gear that trades in for at least 1200 seals, and since ventures cost 200 seals a piece from your grand company vender, you can invest the seals from your gear trade-ins to earn more than double the ventures you are spending.

[Midareyukki]

If you haven't read the recent updates, SE have the logs of who won all the plots, even if that data didn't get transferred to the housing server. All lotteries were correctly and legitimately run and all the people who did win them will be given their chance to take possession of the plot when the time comes; even if they refunded their deposit. This will happen sometime between now and the 29th, once they've got the error fixed.

Anyone who gets a plot from this current round will have won it legitimately. The mechanism worked correctly, it was "simply" an error in communicating the win data to the server that controls housing. Nobody's going to get a plot they shouldn't have gotten due to this bug.

That's not what I had asked, really just "when will we get the plot thing working again" and "can people who got a refund get a house?". So thank you on that front. Otherwise yeah, I understood how this bug happened from what SE explained. It's not an issue with the array itself like people thought, but rather the part that displayed results.

Because I did think "It's gonna take up to 5 business days to implement a fix, it's gonna happen in 3 stages, everyone will get their plot if they rolled for it". But then I saw people say that we weren't getting houses at all, that this was just to delay the thing until they implemented the fix for people who kept their money in the placard... so I just got incredibly confused, and people replying to me in-game saying that stuff was vague didn't help at all.

[Illmaeran]

Except for trading in gear from your dungeon runs for seals (which is an excellent way to farm ventures when leveling), in my opinion, sending your retainers on quick explorations is the best way to earn ventures. At max level, my retainers regularly bring in gear that trades in for at least 1200 seals, and since ventures cost 200 seals a piece from your grand company vender, you can invest the seals from your gear trade-ins to earn more than double the ventures you are spending.

That's what I normally do with mine. The question was posed to the person because they said they send out 25 different retainers across 5 characters on 18H ventures, I assume every day, which amounts to a lot of seals they would have to farm themselves.

That's not what I had asked, really just "when will we get the plot thing working again" and "can people who got a refund get a house?". So thank you on that front. Otherwise yeah, I understood how this bug happened from what SE explained. It's not an issue with the array itself like people thought, but rather the part that displayed results.

Because I did think "It's gonna take up to 5 business days to implement a fix, it's gonna happen in 3 stages, everyone will get their plot if they rolled for it". But then I saw people say that we weren't getting houses at all, that this was just to delay the thing until they implemented the fix for people who kept their money in the placard... so I just got incredibly confused, and people replying to me in-game saying that stuff was vague didn't help at all.

Ah, sorry. To steal a quote from one of my old chemistry professors when asked when a reaction would be done "when it finishes"; "when it's working again". Only Zodiark, Hydaelyn, and Yoshi-P know when that will be and two of them ain't talking.

I'm with you; I was concerned about some of the stuff at first two and had to read through their updates a couple times in succession to feel comfortable with my understanding of it.

[EnnCee]

no I have 4 alts with 5 retainers each that's 25 retainers for me and yes I gear them through running roulettes on each and the mats they give me are priceless not in price but in quantity. how do I have time for all this? i'm retired and the game keeps me sane against the real life dynamos ... of despair

absolutely... retirement would be deadly without gaming.

[SilverSp]

Nine more days till the next lottery round begins. I had heard that this maintenance would fix all the problems, but it was just an extension of time. I am currently making all kinds of furniture is preparation of the opening of my ward and I will throw the biggest dance party of all time. I will have a 500k raffle to celebrate the occasion. All are invited without prejudice.

fake post. Lottery didnt get extended just how long they need got extended by another 10 days. Still same glitch and nothing can be done and most people wont get a plot . lets be real

[sagacious]

fake post. Lottery didnt get extended just how long they need got extended by another 10 days. Still same glitch and nothing can be done and most people wont get a plot . lets be real

How dare you say this is a fake post. I just posted what I read on the loadstone and after seeing what I read I went to the plot I was in and checked the date and that date was nine days from then. If you don't have facts don't reply with lies.

[Shibi]

How dare you say this is a fake post. I just posted what I read on the loadstone and after seeing what I read I went to the plot I was in and checked the date and that date was nine days from then. If you don't have facts don't reply with lies.

Well, in all fairness, we don't know. They added 9 days because they think that's the maximum they will need to allocate houses to all the winners, and also, pretty much takes them up to the Golden Week holidays.

So, the next lottery might start way earlier than 9 days, possibly even this weekend, or it might be locked out until after the Golden Week holidays - just in case there are more problems. They will likely be extra cautious for the next run, and logically that means not having it happen while they are all on holidays.

We can guess when the next round is, but we can't be certain. There just hasn't been enough information in the Lodestone to know that part.

[SilverSp]

How dare you say this is a fake post. I just posted what I read on the loadstone and after seeing what I read I went to the plot I was in and checked the date and that date was nine days from then. If you don't have facts don't reply with lies.

Lets check 2 things . You basically just said you typed whatever is posted in lodestone in other words you are making a post about something that people already know and read . Then you titled your post "Lottery extended" which means Lottery period is extended for a longer duration then intended which we all know 100% false . The lottery period did not extended the lottery entry is also NOT extended . The only thing that was extended was how long they need for maintenance still. In other words your headline is completely false lottery is NOT extended for anyone at anytime anywhere .

[sagacious]

Lets check 2 things . You basically just said you typed whatever is posted in lodestone in other words you are making a post about something that people already know and read . Then you titled your post "Lottery extended" which means Lottery period is extended for a longer duration then intended which we all know 100% false . The lottery period did not extended the lottery entry is also NOT extended . The only thing that was extended was how long they need for maintenance still. In other words your headline is completely false lottery is NOT extended for anyone at anytime anywhere .

Dude it said the next round of the lottery will start on 4/29 it can't get much clearer than that .... sorry I just went back and checked and it says results period ends at 10:59 4/29 but it still means the same thing to me