Thank you, lottery

[LaylaTsarra]

I think it's pretty sad personally that many people were excited for Ishgard and a new housing district only to find that only 25 percent of the wards were allocated private and that only 24 wards were added with no new wards added anywhere else. Not that it would have solved the problem but a minimum of 30 wards per housing district would have helped the supply a bit.

I also think the FC allocation/split and the decision to go with FC only wards was a mistake. FC purchases have been abused for so long and still are and the current restrictions are only enabling the creating of solo FC's in order to get a house which defeats the entire purpose or intent of what a FC is about in my view. Given that decision enabling ward divisions should have applied to the first lottery or two and not what will probably be in effect until 6.2 hits. By then most if not all housing will be gone.

One can hope with the addition of new servers for data center expansion we'll also see a boost to the number of wards everywhere. A statement of what to expect with housing should at the least be communicated when it comes to how they are going to deal with the supply. They have to have some concrete numbers now as to how many people want housing. When 288+ people bid on a small in Balmung in round 3 that says something and this is only going to get worse. One person won that house but 287 people lost.

[Shibi]

A statement of what to expect with housing should at the least be communicated when it comes to how they are going to deal with the supply.

As there will be zero FCs on the new servers I think it will follow the same, now established pattern.

90 or so days with zero housing, all cities locked out - including the housing area unlock quests.

Then 1-18 for FC purchases for a scant few more than 4 cycles to give FCs a chance to form, grind to 6, and buy a house.

We don't know the upper limit yet on FC weighted cycles for a new server, but on Materia (like everyone really) it's been three with the fourth coming and no talk of rebalancing yet.

I think this will continue for JP/NA/EU new servers too.

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

I refused to placard spam because I didn't want to bot and didn't want to spend 8 hours of my life in this game not actually playing it. I was never going to get a personal under the old system. I got one under this one.

No, lottery doesn't solve the supply problem, but its a godsend for anyone who actually has a life outside this game. Its a much smaller turd sandwich than the old system, and I thank SE for implementing it.

To be fair: people who have no lives outside this game are more likely actually going to maximize their use of acquiring a house. If SquareEnix was doing the equivalent of dangling a crack pipe over an addict's head, you just did the equivalent of grabbing that pipe, then smashing it and laughing.

I'd rather camp a placard. I've lost 3 lotteries on medium houses, and I haven't checked yet, but there's probably none left now in any of the areas' personal wards. Every lottery cycle that goes by gets worse and worse, as fewer and fewer houses are available, and more and more people bidding on the smaller number of what's left.

I just checked the districts. 11 small houses available - assuming no one else claims houses (and the one I lost the roll on still hasn't been claimed).

[PredatoryCatgirl]

To be fair: people who have no lives outside this game are more likely actually going to maximize their use of acquiring a house. If SquareEnix was doing the equivalent of dangling a crack pipe over an addict's head, you just did the equivalent of grabbing that pipe, then smashing it and laughing..

No, I did the equivariant of grabbing that pipe, taking a few puffs, and then putting it in my pocket. And if it really is a crack pipe, I'd be doing them a favor. If we're going to make gross false equivalencies here, lets at least portray them accurately.

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

If we're going to make gross false equivalencies here, lets at least portray them accurately.

It sounds like you're the one suggesting that you're doing a housing junkie a favor by denying them a house.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

It sounds like you're the one suggesting that you're doing a housing junkie a favor by denying them a house.

You mean in your analogy where you compared it to smoking crack, one of the most addictive and destructive things you can do to yourself? Yes, I am doing them a favor, because I won't use it like an addict, because its not crack for me.

Or you can just admit that your gross false equivalency is just that, that in game housing isn't a drug or anything anyone actually needs, and stop making me out to be the bad guy because I won a virtual dice roll and don't want to spend 8 hours of my life in this game not actually playing it. (Not an exaggeration, btw. Prime time for placard camping is roughly 8 hours.)

But I'm guessing you won't do that, because you're determined to blame someone for SE not giving us enough houses, and we can't actually blame SE now can we?