So with the lottery fix

[Faafetai]

I am not joking; My routine of the day is to log in each day over my zero-won plot. I run down to the marketboard and retainers, collect my Bom Bokos for the hour, and run back up to sit on the little hill over the plot. I look down from my vantage point into the plot at the red marker where my house could be, and sigh. Another hour passes and a few more Bom Bokos join my collection, while it starts raining. Little puddles of water pool at my feet, and while the umbrella does keep some of the rain away, I now have a wet shoulder. Like you, once a day I run to the placard and click it, just in case something changed, refuse the proffered refund, then put a red line through the date on the calendar. Inexorably but slowly we move towards the 16th and my hopes that once more the development team don't let us down by falling into a sake induced stupor that results in the complete loss of all results.

Aye, partly tongue in cheek, but much not so. Mine consists of logging within the little park across for the plot. I always sit on one of the fence pillars because it was kind of relaxing to run along the fence while waiting in queue when initially awaiting the results. After the news I haven't played much besides checking the placard, I wasn't going too, but the temptation before and even after the date was given still didn't stop me from checking just in case things may be different today. Maybe they just didn't update the news yet, but alas the same message 0 won one bet placed on the lot. I also refuse the refund every time just in case this might let me purchase the plot whenever, (please not too much sake yoshi p and team! I know its golden week please have your fun but don't at the very least lose the results somehow) however long it may take. I than also check to see if my retainers sold anything, replace the items that have, and wait a bit, usually tab out for a little bit to look up news for final fantasy on the jp side because there news is usually posted quicker. I get a bit distracted looking up other stuffs like currently seeing if anyone is talking about something silly on the forums. Tab back in toy with the idea of doing some of my dailies or the wondrous tales inevitably come to the conclusion I really don't wish to play right now, and log back out right in the same spot I logged in.

I did go in to test stuffs in a dungeon today as well as see if the animation for Continuation looked strange after realizing I never got my level 70 weapon to even get into Malikah's Well because I was leveling in Bozja/palace of the dead/heaven on high. Went through with the trusts, felt a bit sad at the end like I had been leaving friends behind in my absence, but inevitably logged out afterwards. I know it is just a game and all, but it just stinks. I just wish to decorate with my friends in our fc like we were going to weeks ago it feels. Was it? I know my friend on another server was doing something similar, 'guarding my house in protest' she said. It is adorable, but it also sad.

(an aside my friend who put in for a house on their server can not put the money inside of his fc storage, so I am assuming they locked the currency for those who did win and got the refund so they do not spend it. which did give me a small amount of hope. Though the whole reason he wanted to put the gil in there was so he didn't spend it, but this solution square came up with works just as well.)

[LianaThorne]

I mean, my apartment is at its item limit fully decorated and I want a house so I can have a larger item limit and 2 floors...

You can technically make two floors in apartment/FC room with lofts. I do it regularly in mine and makes it feel a lot more spacious.

[Imora]

i just "love" how every single person claiming to want a house for housing just conveniently ignores apartments or FC private rooms. sure they arent as big as an actual house, and doesnt have an exterior garden either.. but to say it doesnt exist is just hogwash

I have both.

I still want a house.

[Imora]

You can technically make two floors in apartment/FC room with lofts. I do it regularly in mine and makes it feel a lot more spacious.

I don't have two floors but my apartment has three "rooms", no glitches. My FC room only has a couple, mostly windows on partition glitches.

[Midareyukki]

i just "love" how every single person claiming to want a house for housing just conveniently ignores apartments or FC private rooms. sure they arent as big as an actual house, and doesnt have an exterior garden either.. but to say it doesnt exist is just hogwash

I have a private house and an apartment. I'm waiting on the lottery to get fixed so my FC can get a house and I can decorate both it and my FC room.

I just have a housing decoration addiction. Please save me, it's stolen so much of my mental health...

You can technically make two floors in apartment/FC room with lofts. I do it regularly in mine and makes it feel a lot more spacious.

I'm VERY inclined to agree with you... it's just that as a Hrothgar (or, in the past, a Roegadyn), I weep because it's never spacious enough for me T_T

[Illmaeran]

it's just that as a Hrothgar (or, in the past, a Roegadyn), I weep because it's never spacious enough for me T_T

I weep with you, Brother-in-Spirit! I decided to use my alt's apartment to make a hang out space for our Femroe LS and try as I might, I just couldn't make the two-floor thing work. Some creativity with white partitions, arched marble partitions, and chirurgeon's curtains made for a spacious feeling area even accounting for the amount legroom Femroe's need when sitting.

[DiaDeem]

We currently have no way of knowing exactly how many plots went without bids, unless you wanna check every single house manually. I wanna say that there's a few more plots bidless than people realize, but I really haven't checked.

I truly hope everyone who wants a house can eventually get one, but I'll never agree with anyone saying that FCFS is any better than the lottery. It's still just a coin toss up whether you get it or not, except instead of going up against 12 bots in daily 8 hour clicking sprees for over three months, you just place your bid and go do literally anything else than placard click spamming.

[Vahlnir]

I truly hope everyone who wants a house can eventually get one, but I'll never agree with anyone saying that FCFS is any better than the lottery. It's still just a coin toss up whether you get it or not, except instead of going up against 12 bots in daily 8 hour clicking sprees for over three months, you just place your bid and go do literally anything else than placard click spamming.

It's a better system in the same sense that stepping on a lego piece is better than breaking a toe. Neither system is good. One just sucks less. And I think it's a shame that people pushed so hard for this.

[Theodric]

It's a better system in the same sense that stepping on a lego piece is better than breaking a toe. Neither system is good. One just sucks less. And I think it's a shame that people pushed so hard for this.

It's kind of fascinating, really. For the longest time I saw consistent calls for instanced player housing. As it happens, that's something Yoshi-P is on record as being firmly against due to wanting to maintain a 'neighbourhood feel'. Despite various other MMO's respecting players enough to have instanced housing and the ability to take a break for months and come back to still have one's house and furniture intact...FFXIV is pushing ahead with the non-instanced route.

I didn't see many people call for a lottery system to be implemented and when they did it seemed to get a mixed reaction. I've seen some people call for a monthly rent to be implemented so I wonder if that'll be the next bit of feedback embraced in order to try and 'fix' the system.

[Amenara]

You can technically make two floors in apartment/FC room with lofts. I do it regularly in mine and makes it feel a lot more spacious.

Completely missing the point. I want a house so I have more room and a larger item limit to decorate. 100 item limit goes away really quickly when you add things like lofts or partitions in your apartment.