Largest house on Hyperion = 150M gil = 150 people donate 1M each, easy

[axemtitanium]

I'm going to set aside the 625M for JP legacy because few of us are on those servers.

The most expensive possible house on Hyperion (legacy) costs 312M, which can go down as far as 155M with full discount. FCs can hold up to 512 members and the largest houses are "supposed" to be for the largest FCs. If everyone in your FC contributes an equal amount of money, you can raise 155M with a measly 300k contribution per member. That's not unreasonable. Obviously very few FCs have that many active members, but even with only 150 members, it'll only take a contribution of 1M each. I can make 1M in less than a week just by casually selling HQ mats. If I were more serious about selling 2-stars, I could easily make more.

Obviously the price is way too high for smaller FCs with fewer members, as it should be since a giant mansion isn't the correct size for companies with that few members. I recall somewhere (forget where) that small houses are recommended for <20 members and large mansions are recommended for 100+ members.

Now the hard part is convincing/forcing every member to donate.

tl;dr housing prices are appropriate for the size of house you're getting, assuming all FC members contribute

#overreaction #howtomath #whiteknightswin

Math Addendum:
Largest possible plot: 155,000,000g / 512 members = 302,734 gil per person
Largest possible plot: 155,000,000g / 155 members = 1,000,000 gil per person
Small first class plot: 25,000,000g / 20 members = 1,250,000 gil per person

SE seems to be trying to combat a phenomenon called diffusion of responsibility. YES, it's difficult for any one person to meaningfully contribute to the giant honking mansion. However, if you guys can't trust people in your FC enough to donate a small amount (500k-1M, which is not large) to a common cause, then there's a problem. The other problem is that everyone assumes they're going to get the highest quality largest size mansion, when that mansion is designed for super large FCs. OF COURSE it's unreasonable for a 50 person FC to get the giant-ass mansion because it's designed to be bought by 100+ people.

I'm not in their FC but I like hanging out in TS3 with Pass the Bong (the largest FC on my server) and yesterday I heard them all banding together as a group to brainstorm ways to make money and then they went and got it. Obviously, it's a long, hard, three month project to raise 312M to get the big-ass house but they sound committed and it's giving them a cause and a goal to rally around. If a bunch of stoners can summon the effort to make 312 million gil, why can't you?

HOW TO MAKE 1 MILLION GIL IN 2.1 A COMPLETE BEGINNER'S GUIDE

From Reinheart's google doc translation of 2.1 bonus mini-live letter:
"YoshiP is saying it was set this way so players don’t buy out all the lands right away and end up in situation where none is available. RMT estimated gil has been removed from their amount, they checked how much gil the FC’s have and got the estimates.
with battle alone you should be able to earn 15000-18000, little bit over 20000 gil with role bonus every day. If you farm 7 days that’s good amount X number of members.
It’s set so players can buy in 3 month time.
He says again he will look at situation and make adjustments.
The information posted on the patch notes it the highest amount and most likely not much people will buy, he wants people to use this as example to have players talk over how to gain the gil to purchase"

Dailies + duty roulette + treasure hunt = 20k gil per day per person
= 140k gil per person per week
= 6-7 weeks to reach 1M per person
1M per person * 200 members in FC = 200M raised = Big friggin' house in ~2 months