Allow cancelling personal housing lottery bid - here's why

[XiaoShengwu]

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,

he was mocking you. because you're asking them indirectly to put caps on how many people can bid on a house. you're not the only one who wants a house. you're not the only one who is going to bid. want better chances? wait til last day of bidding. walk around wards, and mark down which plots are getting the most bids, and avoid them.

[Silverbane]

want better chances? wait til last day of bidding. walk around wards, and mark down which plots are getting the most bids, and avoid them.

And level an alt or seven. Although each account can own only one personal house on each world, you can place as many bids on a plot as you have qualified (level 50, 2nd Lt.) characters. My spouse placed three bids on a small plot in Shiragane last round (out of 50 total on that plot) and won it.

[I am not sure what happens if each alt bids on a separate plot; since you can't win more than one, it doesn't help your odds to do so.]

My own long-term campaign to get a personal medium has me:

1. leveling three new alts right now, in addition to the three I already have qualified, and
2. putting a hold on my spending on glamour, since I'll need the gil for the bids.

That last is important; I have single glamour plates that are worth more than a small plot.

Note however that whichever alt wins the plot will be the only one of that player's characters that can live in it: just as you can't send mail between alts, you can't make any of your other alts tenants of the personal house that one of them owns; this means that unless you open the house to the public, the non-owning alts cannot even enter it. So if your goal is to have a particular character own a house, multiple-bidding with multiple alts doesn't help.

However, it works for me, because I'm really getting the house for my spouse, and once I have it, the tenants will be four of my spouse's alts, who will have full privileges. I'll be a mainly-absentee landlord.