may 16th for housing fix?

[sagacious]

With this timetable it is now 100% guaranteed that a horde of RMT shell FCs will be mature in time for round 2 of lottery. 18 wards worth of small houses will now be handed to shell FCs with virtually no competition. That's more than the entirety of housing available from personal wards. They're hard at work fixing a lottery that was never going to fix the broken housing system. In fact, because of the delay caused by the lottery's failure and repair, the housing system is going to be even more broken.

I agree, now RMT shells have had the time to get ready because it's taken to long. Round two is going to be interesting and I will stay tuned to the forums for the fallout with popcorn in hand.

[Avenger]

Keep in mind most Japanese businesses are going to be closed for 9 days, starting Friday, for the Golden Week holidays. The May 16th date accounts for that and isn't simply laziness on their part.

It's unfortunate timing, but it's good long-term for SE (and all game companies for that matter) to not require staff to work over holidays. Though presumably regular operations of the game servers have to continue regardless. I imagine it's even more of a disappointment to any JP players who were hoping to spend time off decorating their new houses (assuming they were lucky enough to get one.) Fortunately there's stuff other than housing to do in the game.

[Vahlnir]

I agree, now RMT shells have had the time to get ready because it's taken to long. Round two is going to be interesting and I will stay tuned to the forums for the fallout with popcorn in hand.

Yep. This next round is going to be a crap show. And easily every round from here on out. Good job, dev team. Keep up the good work.

[Midareyukki]

Keep in mind most Japanese businesses are going to be closed for 9 days, starting Friday, for the Golden Week holidays. The May 16th date accounts for that and isn't simply laziness on their part.

If this is just a display error like they say it is, then this doesn't feel like something that should have gone into Golden Week for fixing...

[Illmaeran]

If this is just a display error like they say it is, then this doesn't feel like something that should have gone into Golden Week for fixing...

From my understanding of what they've said so far, it sounds like the largest hurdle is finding a way to get the people who won, but refunded their Gil, in possession of their plot. I'm in no way a programmer, but can see coding a new system for this single event from scratch taking a while; especially accounting for how interconnected MMO systems are.

I work in life sciences research and while we do everything we can to reduce unwanted variables, we can't always account for everything. Sometimes these things are happy accidents and sometimes the ruin an entire cadre of samples. I can see this being the case with the current situation; they did what they could do to control variables and test ahead of time, but something unexpected happened and borked the system requiring them to essentially modify the test method, run a proof of concept on it, then restart the experiment.

[VerdeLuck]

Are we getting additional wards in compensation for Housing being disabled for basically a month?

It might be functionally disabled for longer, considering that most houses are going to get bought up on the next lottery and with demolition disabled indefinitely, there's going to be exactly 0 new houses for sale for the next few months.

[Palslow]

From my understanding of what they've said so far, it sounds like the largest hurdle is finding a way to get the people who won, but refunded their Gil, in possession of their plot. I'm in no way a programmer, but can see coding a new system for this single event from scratch taking a while; especially accounting for how interconnected MMO systems are.

I work in life sciences research and while we do everything we can to reduce unwanted variables, we can't always account for everything. Sometimes these things are happy accidents and sometimes the ruin an entire cadre of samples. I can see this being the case with the current situation; they did what they could do to control variables and test ahead of time, but something unexpected happened and borked the system requiring them to essentially modify the test method, run a proof of concept on it, then restart the experiment.

But in the latest notice there is no mention of how they will do this for the affected lottery winners who have collected heir refund. If they are testing it already surely they should tell us how they will proceed....

[hydralus]

I also notice that a lot of the 'empty' FC housing wards have a lot of the error of saying "No participants" when there's actually 2 or more? I checked about 10 plaques and about 8 of them had the error. So it gives the illusion that there's going to be more FC housing to bid on than there really is, it seems. Was FC housing hit with way more errors than individual plots?

[StrongWilled]

I also notice that a lot of the 'empty' FC housing wards have a lot of the error of saying "No participants" when there's actually 2 or more? I checked about 10 plaques and about 8 of them had the error. So it gives the illusion that there's going to be more FC housing to bid on than there really is, it seems. Was FC housing hit with way more errors than individual plots?

I dont want to say it is exclusively an FC error, but there are very few unclaimed personal plots on Siren, disproportionately so from FCs. Where as it seems half-3/4 of FC plots are vacant in a sud-division/ward, most of the personal wards are full (maybe 5-10 houses total unclaimed)

[IdowhatIwant]

FC tags are not unique. What you're seeing is 30 different FC's with the same tag. Kinda blatant and kinda stupid tbh. That's just asking to be put under a microscope.

It has been going on since housing launched. So I don't think the microscope has even been ordered yet.