HOUSING NEEDS TO CHANGE

[Batbrat]

I think a big glaring issue here, is that a lot of people simply do not read the rules of owning a house.
Time after time, we see people come to the forum confused and outraged, because their house that wasn't even theirs to begin with got repo'd. That's not the case here I don't think, but there needs to be more thorough reviews of the rules when people win one. I think they get too excited that they finally won and just zoop past the information menu and click Own Plot, or whatever. So let's review.

1. Being on or near your property is not enough, you must go inside your house at least one time a month.
2. If you are a tenant, you do not own the house. If the owner who is not you does not enter for a month, the house will be demolished. The only exception to this is FC's. If it is a private home and the real owner does not go in, it will be lost.
3. Check your /timers, don't rely on emails. "I'm never on my dc" and that's why you'll lose it, because you aren't even using it anyway, evidenced by you not even being on your own dc enough to be bothered to check.

It's very simple. Did you personally win that house? Ok, go inside it every week to be safe.
Every single week, go inside. Log out in it. Every time you play, before you finish, run into your house and log out-put your character to bed. Foolproof method. "Alright guys, I gotta go home now!" Don't idle in towns forever, logging in and out off the street. What sense does that even make? You own that house, be in it as often as you can. Don't confuse yourself with multiple properties. This happens a lot too. "I know I went into my house!..it was right after visiting my two apartments and shared house #3" No, you're confused. You likely went into a shared plot or apartment, and mistook that in your memory as going into your actually owned house. Don't juggle a bunch of properties to avoid making that mistake. Or if you do, just make sure again, that no matter what, you're in your actual house so often that there's no mistaking it. Make a habit of taking screenshots when you were last in your house as well, if you wander away for days at a time. If you're going to be infrequent, keep track.

As for what else they could do, the pop up menu that they use for the Eternal Bond renewal thing could also be repurposed into housing reminds as well. Also, I think that the beds we get for our houses should allow us to log out from them too-from personally owned plots only to avoid confusion over which property they're logging out from, and ensure that they're preserving their owned house keenly. I'm sure its complicated to implement, but people being able to log from their beds would not only be a tad more immersive, but would also encourage people to go the heck home for the night!!

[Khryseis_Astra]

Also, I think that the beds we get for our houses should allow us to log out from them too-from personally owned plots only to avoid confusion over which property they're logging out from, and ensure that they're preserving their owned house keenly. I'm sure its complicated to implement, but people being able to log from their beds would not only be a tad more immersive, but would also encourage people to go the heck home for the night!!

Funny, when I first got a house, I was so used to logging out from the bed in the Mizzenmast that I didn’t realize my house bed wouldn’t allow me to log out! XD I had never done it any other way! My hubby and friends still tease me about it.

I’d like to see that just for the immersion. But really I’d rather see them give us an additional room to every house, personal and FC, that’s essentially a copy/pasted inn room. Then we could have the glamour dresser accessible through our own property, and log out in the bed. Two birds with one stone! lol

[JohncarterIx]

i have a large wow house and a med ffx14 house now i got my wow house today lots of land animals bam had lot people try to get it i killed it soon as i landed im on a cliff and i can look down in the valley

[Solowing]

Funny, when I first got a house, I was so used to logging out from the bed in the Mizzenmast that I didn’t realize my house bed wouldn’t allow me to log out! XD I had never done it any other way! My hubby and friends still tease me about it.

I’d like to see that just for the immersion. But really I’d rather see them give us an additional room to every house, personal and FC, that’s essentially a copy/pasted inn room. Then we could have the glamour dresser accessible through our own property, and log out in the bed. Two birds with one stone! lol

I like that as long as the connection is stable, it doesn't log you out. Ive managed to avoid the Playstation Network outages, by being logged in when the outage happened. It'll boot me off PSN, but it'll remained logged into XIV. But it needs PSN to authenticate. So you're already in before the outage, you're good, if youre not logged in you wont be able login.


I park out in my plot, set up pose n leave for the day.

[Shistar]

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Truer words have never been said on this forum.
Also, catch me getting out of my bed on the wrong side, clipping to the void and dying. lmfao
Or the game suddenly deciding my main bed is the one I have glitched on my ceiling to prevent the camera from glitching!

[Yuniko]

question. Is there any specific ''BEST TIME'' to bid on a house? or is it just random or Whenever?

[Shistar]

question. Is there any specific ''BEST TIME'' to bid on a house? or is it just random or Whenever?

Absolute BEST time? Right before bidding time ends, because that's when you can see which plots have the least competition and also don't have to wait very long to know the results. Extra points if it's a dead patch like a couple months into .55 or a similar time where many players go into a hiatus and some don't remember to keep their houses on check.


If I were you, this would be my plan:
- Wait until it is bidding time
- Manually comb through all the wards in the district(s) I'm interested in, then make a list of all the plots I would like to bid in
- Wait until the last day for bidding, make sure you're not late
- Go bid on whichever plot in your list has the least amount of bids
- Pray/Profit/???/etc.


Repeat until you win. This is a game of endurance.

[Yuniko]

Absolute BEST time? Right before bidding time ends, because that's when you can see which plots have the least competition and also don't have to wait very long to know the results. Extra points if it's a dead patch like a couple months into .55 or a similar time where many players go into a hiatus and some don't remember to keep their houses on check.


If I were you, this would be my plan:
- Wait until it is bidding time
- Manually comb through all the wards in the district(s) I'm interested in, then make a list of all the plots I would like to bid in
- Wait until the last day for bidding, make sure you're not late
- Go bid on whichever plot in your list has the least amount of bids
- Pray/Profit/???/etc.


Repeat until you win. This is a game of endurance.

Thank you so much Shistar. <3 I'll absolutely do that!

[Shistar]

Thank you so much Shistar. <3 I'll absolutely do that!

Best of luck Yuni!

[VictorSpoils]

I can do this. Hold my beer.