A Critique an suggesion

[Og_]

I have never been able to get a house, have been in the lotto system since it was released, its actually so frustrating that we pay a subscription for this content and yet it is not available to most people

[Elkanah]

I have never been able to get a house, have been in the lotto system since it was released, its actually so frustrating that we pay a subscription for this content and yet it is not available to most people

I see you're on gilgamesh. im gonna tell you right now-- that's nearly impossible for you. Odds are better being struck by a car, or a tornado in California. Aether DC has always been the roughest for housing purchasing.

[Jojoya]

I have never been able to get a house, have been in the lotto system since it was released, its actually so frustrating that we pay a subscription for this content and yet it is not available to most people

Unfortunately, that's a consequence paid for choosing a congested world (and data center) for your home world. I doubt that SE will ever change how they handle the ward system to accommodate the congested worlds because they want players to stop choosing those worlds.

Housing is available. Your problem is that you aren't choosing to go to where it is.

It's not hard to get a house if you transfer to Dynamis. There are so many available houses on the 4 new worlds right now including larges. You would still be able to use data center travel to play with your friends on Gilgamesh and Aether whether you go there or they came to you on Dynamis.

I know many players feel they shouldn't have to transfer but that doesn't change the current situation. If you want a house that badly, then either transfer to where they are or create a new character on those worlds. You can get a new character purchase eligible very quickly.

- Complete MSQ up through the quest Sylph Management. This allows you to unlock retainers, Grand Company and jobs.

- Gain rank in the Grand Company you chose. GC Hunting Log Rank 1 entries plus unlocking PvP will give you enough seals to get to Corporal. You can get to Sgt. 2nd Class through a combination of GC leves, FATEs, and repeating Leveling Roulette as AIN.

- Once you reach Sgt. 2nd Class, Expert Deliveies will get the rest of the seals you'll need to rank up. There are plenty of cheap "greens" on the marketboards across the NA data centers if you don't have a max crafter that can make them cheap and quickly (you'll get the same number of seals whether NQ or HQ). Then you just need to complete the GC Hunting Log Rank 2 along with your Grand Companies quests to complete Dzemael Darkhold and Aurum Vale.

Working on the GC rank should get your character to level 50 without a problem with Road to 80 in effect on a New World as long as you keep up with your job quests and class Hunting log. I just did the process with a new character I created on Cuchulainn last Friday afternoon and was ready to bid Saturday night. My alt turned 50 just before I got to Dzemael Darkhold.

Again, houses are there for the taking on Dynamis. You just have to be willing to do what's needed to get one.

If you're not willing, well... good luck in your future lottery attempts on a congested world.

[ShadowyZero]

Housing is available. Your problem is that you aren't choosing to go to where it is.

It's not hard to get a house if you transfer to Dynamis. There are so many available houses on the 4 new worlds right now including larges. You would still be able to use data center travel to play with your friends on Gilgamesh and Aether whether you go there or they came to you on Dynamis.

I know many players feel they shouldn't have to transfer but that doesn't change the current situation. If you want a house that badly, then either transfer to where they are or create a new character on those worlds. You can get a new character purchase eligible very quickly.

Again, houses are there for the taking on Dynamis.

Respectfully i am going to have to disagree with this take, i know its logical to go to these empty places like you say if they want a house so terribly but the world visiting system is way to restrictive for people to even fully enjoy it with their friends the developers meant well and it was a heavily request feature to open up servers so that people could facilitate more players into their groups, to ease up congestion on overpopulated worlds.
but imagine a few scenario's where some might want to show their friend glamour they've collected or want to show off the house they collected but oops sorry can't unless you inconvenience yourself or your pals cause then they have to either travel with you and wait in ques or you have to go alone and suffer the inconvenience of two ques when the path to least resistance would to be able to make it so a person has access to things like retainers for the glamour example
i mean hell at that point its better just to make an alt on your friends server cause they dont have any restrictions at all when it comes to being on the same world/data centers.
and now yes you could argue that we have screen shots we can share or screen sharing but sometimes its just nice to be able to have people visit your place an just idle with you on your lot or while waiting for duties to pop up not the same thing if your sacrificing that one comfort while your friend doesn't need to etc.
to finish out my point here i think they could ease restrictions some more or if thats just not feasible on a technical level then allow people to have like cross-travel inventory space so they can throw things into it for when traveling and give people priority status when returning back home to their own data center to speed things along a bit more i feel like that would go a long ways to making it less of an inconvenience and so on.