So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Silverbane]

The only way to improve a player's chances of winning is to reduce the number of players competing against each other.

That's true for characters, but not players.
Last lottery, I (one player) entered 8 times in the lottery for one small plot, using the 8 housing-qualified characters on my account [on that world]. My odds of winning were 8X better than a player that only entered once: 18% instead of 2.3%.

I won, BTW.

[anguel]

That's true for characters, but not players.
Last lottery, I (one player) entered 8 times in the lottery for one small plot, using the 8 housing-qualified characters on my account [on that world]. My odds of winning were 8X better than a player that only entered once: 18% instead of 2.3%.

I won, BTW.

yes but that house now belong to an alt right ?, how do you transfer ownership to your main ?

[LianaThorne]

yes but that house now belong to an alt right ?, how do you transfer ownership to your main ?

You can't but doesn't change the fact that you own a house. Which is why people like the one above you put in multiple entries to try to shift the odds in their favor. The point is to get one.


Unless it's an FC then it can be transferred.

[Silverbane]

yes but that house now belong to an alt right ?, how do you transfer ownership to your main ?

Depends on what you mean by "alt."

For all things housing related, the character that won the lottery instantly became my "main" housing character.

I have another character that's my main glamour character, a main mentor character so I can get my friends that 20% XP boost when we run together, a main crafting and gathering character, and a main experience-the-MSL-slowly character, a main running-a-popoto-is-hilarious character and so on.

Alt-vs-main is an arbitrary and somewhat meaningless distinction, especially when you have more than one character that's at endgame and/or has all crafters and/or gatherers to 90.

[anguel]

Depends on what you mean by "alt."

For all things housing related, the character that won the lottery instantly became my "main" housing character.

I have another character that's my main glamour character, a main mentor character so I can get my friends that 20% XP boost when we run together, a main crafting and gathering character, and a main experience-the-MSL-slowly character, a main running-a-popoto-is-hilarious character and so on.

Alt-vs-main is an arbitrary and somewhat meaningless distinction, especially when you have more than one character that's at endgame and/or has all crafters and/or gatherers to 90.

that is unfortunatly a playstyle that i could never have, i mean i got this character since 2012 and got way too attached to it, not to mention to split task amongst character meh, but it is sure an interesting take on the subject, never thought someone would play the game like this ^^

[Silverbane]

that is unfortunatly a playstyle that i could never have, i mean i got this character since 2012 and got way too attached to it, not to mention to split task amongst character meh ... never thought someone would play the game like this ^^

If you haven't re-done the ARR MSQ in it's present incarnation as a popoto, you've missed out on some fun times.
Heck, just re-running the MSQ after all these years is fun. Like watching an old movie you really liked.

[Bukachu]

That's true for characters, but not players.
Last lottery, I (one player) entered 8 times in the lottery for one small plot, using the 8 housing-qualified characters on my account [on that world]. My odds of winning were 8X better than a player that only entered once: 18% instead of 2.3%.

I won, BTW.

yet another issue with whole housing system.

[EZGIL]

That's true for characters, but not players.
Last lottery, I (one player) entered 8 times in the lottery for one small plot, using the 8 housing-qualified characters on my account [on that world]. My odds of winning were 8X better than a player that only entered once: 18% instead of 2.3%.

I won, BTW.

This is exactly what I'm currently working on, qualifying my non-main characters to 'bid level'. This not-thought-out system they created only encourages this type of cheesing. While I'm at it, I'm going to buy, and deck out, FC chambers for all of them too.