Allow cancelling personal housing lottery bid - here's why

[LailaTov]

They could have read the lodestone news to the lottery system before placing their bet. No one is forcing people to bid on the first day.

That doesn't make sense. I knew how the lottery worked. I was complaining about how it worked.

[StriderShinryu]

I understand - though it is very tribal and not in the spirit of the game to do such a thing - so like @burmecia said, there needs to be a cap on the lottery for each house, and/or MAYBE

Make a general pool for people who just want a house, that doesn't specify the location, but would almost guarantee a house SOMEWHERE (unspecified or very loosely specified so as to decrease trolling by friends) and have people enter THAT lottery and be unable to retract their bids - say...20 bids for 10 properties or something. Its still a choice and would still allow bidding on specific properties in separate lotteries.

I actually don't think this is a bad idea. Of course, there would need to be some sort of regulator in place to ensure the "random" entries weren't going towards plots that people had specifically bid on but if we ever do get to the point where there are plots left sitting with no bids on them I don't think it's out of line to just have a "place a random entry on whatever is available" box.

[Shuuli]

This is absolutely not a good idea. People will just ask their friends to bid on the house, making the numbers look HUGE, and then their friends would pull back last minute so the original person will get the house. So no dont do this

You on the other hand made a major mistake. You could have entered the lottery last day 1 hour before the timer and you could have seen which houses have lowest bids. Now, what you can do is wait to lose and then bid in the next round. Good luck.

I personally just want them to make apartment rooms or FC rooms in multiple sizes. Like medium and big. As they are instanced that should be not a problem...

[Shibi]

...now, let's see how long it takes for someone to seriously suggest there should be hard cap to how many individuals may participate in single case of lottery...

First to get there when the lottery window starts gets the sole bid, and the placard is locked from all other entries until the end of the bidding window. It's then opened for the last 30 seconds for anyone to enter.

and PVP mode is turned on

[HeyMcFly]

I just made a thread about this too- I agree btw, the small plot I bid on has 40 bids, its discouraging to see & just want to take my gil back
It started out as just 2 bids
They could probably add some kind of cool down once you take out a bid until you can bid again

[HeyMcFly]

First to get there when the lottery window starts gets the sole bid, and the placard is locked from all other entries until the end of the bidding window. It's then opened for the last 30 seconds for anyone to enter.

and PVP mode is turned on

pvp mode is turned on and everyone's HP is reduced to 1- last person standing wins

[Brygd]

First to get there when the lottery window starts gets the sole bid, and the placard is locked from all other entries until the end of the bidding window. It's then opened for the last 30 seconds for anyone to enter.

and PVP mode is turned on

Every other player bidding on the house is a black mage.

You are a dancer.

[KurohNeko]

I've been saving up for months to purchase a house in the game. I am a newish player and haven't even finished MSQ. However, private housing as part of gameplay begins relatively early in progression, and the benefits to having an estate, even a small one, are not just cosmetic (though there is nothing wrong with that). I do not own or really want an apartment, but it looks like that may be my only option. I don't want to join a FC right now, a choice I've decided to make which I know limits my gameplay a bit, but one that the Game Developers want to support (as they introduce more ways to solo-play).

I believe that with limited housing plots, a lottery system for private housing is the only fair way. HOWEVER, I FINALLY got the opportunity to enter a lottery when it went live again today, clicking on a plot that only had 1 other participant at the time. A few hours later it has 10 already. By the time the lottery ends, who knows how many it will have? Suddenly that shady plot up in the corner is looking pretty attractive to me with 1 bid on it - I wish I could pull out of the original bid and switch to a plot I have a better chance of getting. I've emptied my gil coffers, have to wait 5 days to see that I've likely lost, and will have to try all over again with no hints beforehand as to the plots I am MORE LIKELY to win the lottery on. So allowing cancellation of a bid seems only fair. It would reduce the pool for the high-demand plot, so its not like I'm gaming the system. I bet there are many solo players out there who would rather have a less-desirable plot than no plot at all - give us that choice is all I ask.

I believe that the ultimate solution is to have more housing. Somehow. Not saying it would be easy from a server standpoint, but I believe that there are minds out there that could figure out the tech challenges.

That would simply lead to people playing musical chairs with bids when they think there are too many on that plot. Which sounds like a headache for the server with the constant dumping and pulling of gill and participate numbers going around and around and I can already see a FC pooling a bunch into a single plot to get people to pull out so only they are the ones bidding. Look, no matter what you do at this point your odds are basically the same. Only real chance you had is if you did what I did and roll on a house right out of the gate where there were only like 8 bids. Also, you're not even done with MSQ and are new not even in the FC. This kind of stuff is, despite being introduced at level 15, an end game thing that people try at after years of playing. Not to say you can't participate but you'd be better investing your time in the main game first.

[Corvus_V]

There will be more housing. NA and EU have entire new worlds coming online later this year.

It's been essentially mathematically proven that this isn't going to solve the issue. They need to make instanced homesteads that are isolated plots

[Divinemights]

It's been essentially mathematically proven that this isn't going to solve the issue. They need to make instanced homesteads that are isolated plots

Get apartment and get over with it.
They are not going that route.
Apartment is the so called instanced housing in this game, whether you like it or not.