Bidding is a terrible bandaid. . .

[Darthgummibear]

Works on my machine, I won a house.

And there's people that win the powerball, too.

[Garten]

Except JP players had been asking for side content with those types of features.

I honestly didn't know about this.. and sometimes i forgot this is a japanese game lol..

[Gunbladesman]

Works on my machine, I won a house.

Thanks for your waste of a post. Gonna follow your example and go to a hospital and tell all the sick patients " I'm healthy why aren't you?"

[Rhea_]

Thanks for your waste of a post. Gonna follow your example and go to a hospital and tell all the sick patients " I'm healthy why aren't you?"

Thanks for your waste of a post.

[Themarvin]

I still don't get why the lottery is a terrible bandaid? It is there to create a fair system, and it is people trying to divert things from the actual problem, the lottery system makes it way more difficult for people that on purpose scoop up houses as for one, and that is why there is a refusal of the system on this forum.

The question is and always will be, how do we get more houses into the game and keeping the lotter system of being permitted to purchace a plot, not all this nonsense about that the lottery system is bad.

We have already gotten rid of this hidden timer issue, that made people bot day and night.

[Rhea_]

I still don't get why the lottery is a terrible bandaid?

It’s a bad bandaid cause it doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Lottery system is as much of a terrible system as invisible timers and clicking game for a house.

Only solution is instanced housing but I doubt we’ll ever get that.

[Themarvin]

It’s a bad bandaid cause it doesn’t solve the underlying problem. Lottery system is as much of a terrible system as invisible timers and clicking game for a house.

Only solution is instanced housing but I doubt we’ll ever get that.

1. It solve one problem, no one has to camp a placecard for up to days before some timer is up, and one less reason to place bots that could put a strain on the system.

Well FFXIV is not built well for housing at all, and making it all instanced is also a terrible bandaid and show even further limitations to the system as it is, especially if you have played games with even more freedom than FFXIV ever has given and probably have been limited by as well, very few here has played Star Wars Galaxies = 100% control.

Complaining about a fair system, due to a ressource that is limited seem more like people are desperate for a missing link to resume the old ways that will create an advantage over other players if you use 3rd party party automated software, or a mindless drone clicking day and night and then after complaining about a sprained wrist or the likes, this forum is full of it if you do a little research.

2. Creating this lottery solves one problem, more problems is in line and still exist, but makes no reason to blame the fix of fairplay.

I was able to obtain a FC house without having to camp day and night, however I got hit by the 0 problem like anyone else, but that is it, I did not have to end feeling tempted to use means prohibited by the ToS ergo the sysem work.

The Lottery system is a fix to one of the problems, there is more, maybe they should actually invent an interface so you do not have to rely on "glitches" to decorate houses and much more that need to be attended and more so over than just creating more plots and wards, they need to fix the actual system as it is first as well, adding 'locks' to move stuff up and down in a 3D room anywhere not even using any walls would be a good start and by it removing the tabletop whatever thing and so on as on how things act.


3. You are still not giving a reason to why the lottery system is bad, unless you tended to abuse the previous timer system, as in higher chance to get a plot due to just camping it out with repeat clicking or using means that is prohibited by the ToS to your own advantage.

[Rhea_]

I rather click spam than wait over a week to see RNG f**k me over. As I said, it doesn’t solve anything, just giving an illusion it’s fair now.

[Themarvin]

I rather click spam than wait over a week to see RNG f**k me over. As I said, it doesn’t solve anything, just giving an illusion it’s fair now.

Explain why people who is at work... who sleep... am not on in the odd hours of the game server and DC dependent should not have the same chance to get a house as you?

And explain why it should be left vulnerable to third party software as well eludes me?

as for RNG... if there is 3 or 200 people in the lottery, then if it is an extreme crowded world, then it would most likely have had its visitors over a day to match that potential over a couple of days.

if 1 to 10 or 1 to 200 a player will win it, move to a lesser populated world point is everyone got to pitch in or simply increase your odds or don't bit on the one everyone bids on, medium/large before you got something to bargain with, your choice... depending on choice of server it is a calculated risk and for each individuel server, you get the same odds as your competitors.

Ergo the lottery is the most fair system and the game is not designet for you to click day and night on a placecard, so it solves plenty of problems.

The problem is the lack of housing and they should had implented this system years ago.

[MultihouseHoarder]

The lottery has been amazingly successful, keep up the good work SE!