In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

**Mature** · 10-12-2017 05:59 PM

Thank you xoxox

**Zfz** · 10-12-2017 06:00 PM

At this point the minimum I think should be achieved for 4.2 should include all of the following:

One private house and one FC house per service account per server, including already owned houses.
A person loggin in 48 hours after the new wards go online should not be disadvantaged when compared to someone who got in 1 second after server went online.

Seriously I won't know what to call the FFXIV team if 4.2 is yet another log-in war to get housing plots.

My suggestion: one week before 4.2, everyone can bid for plots at the placards and gil will be deducted in full. You get one bid per service account per server. You can cancel a bid and get your gil back once every 18 hours. You get to see how many other bids have been placed at each placard. During maintenance, one lucky bidder is drew randomly by the server and the plot given to the bidder. Everyone else's gil is refunded.

Afterwards, relinquished plots will all have a 72 hour bid time, and a lucky bidder drew at the end of the countdown.

EDIT: to clarify: the "bids" are at the system specified prices, not free auction bids. If it started at 3.75 mil, all bids will be at 3.75 mil. It's not a highest-bid scheme, as should be obvious from the "system random draw" part.

**Katzena** · 10-12-2017 06:06 PM

Sorry for double comment
This is a bad idea. You'll just get a bunch of people who do RMT and buy gil. You'll get a gil buyer who buys like 100-200 mil and put that down on houses and then no one that worked and crafted for gil will get a house.

**Katzena** · 10-12-2017 06:03 PM

I can't wait to see how you're handling this. But I agree either do instanced housing or 1 FC house and 1 personal per account

**Outrack** · 10-12-2017 06:09 PM

Thank you very, very much. It's been distressing to see so many friends left disappointed and this response has restored a lot of faith, good luck with your implementation and looking forward to 4.2!

**Ishinaia** · 10-13-2017 07:25 AM

I was one of those many who got a launcher error, by the time I got it fixed and managed to log in (half an hour after servers came up) our plots were all sold out on Lamia.

I know you are looking into people that bought to flip houses at inflated prices etc but this should show you there are more people wanting houses (and have worked hard for the gil for them) than there are houses available.

I do believe that restricting housing ownership to 1 FC plot and 1 personal plot PER ACCOUNT rather than per character would go a long way to both opening up more housing and stopping the people that are making profit from this.

**Clover_Blake** · 10-12-2017 06:09 PM

Thank you very much for the response! ^^ I'm happy to know that more people will have a chance to get a home in Eorzea.

**Rinuko** · 10-12-2017 06:10 PM

Not expected this. However I don't think this will help unless they implement some preventionsystems in place.
Last time we got wards (like some already stated) was sold in minutes, how is going to be different this time?

**Galaick** · 10-12-2017 06:11 PM

Are there plans or possibilities to increase the amount of tenants per house, or scale them up with housing size?

**Asteria_Solstice** · 10-12-2017 06:14 PM

How about having private housing on a different area and FC housing on another. Example, when u click the Town Aetheryte, there is an option to go to (Private Housing Ward) or (Free Company Housing Ward)
Then bound private housing to 1 per account. There is no overlapping housing between private n FC so it should be possible.
As for increasing the wards/division, unless its by a huge amount it won't solve the lack of housing issue.

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