Thread: In Regard to Housing in Patch 4.1

Prioritize FC over Personal plots. Something like: For the first 24 hours all available plots are available for FC purchase only. After 24 hours, non-taken plots will become available for personal purchase at a discounted rate.

There are far too many FC's left homeless due to people snatching up personal plots. An FC with multiple members (and actual in game uses such as workshops) should be priority over someone having a fun time decorating. 3-100+ members per FC versus 1 person holding a plot... It's a bit crazy.

And it should be 1 Personal and 1 FC house per account, not by character like it is now.

There's also the other problem of tiny FCs with like 4 members taking up a whole large FC house. Clearly there needs to be more limitations or people are just bound to abuse the system.

Thank you xoxox

Originally Posted by Niwashi

I don't think that will actually prevent speculation.

It will certainly not prevent speculation here on the forums - encourage speculation is more likely.
What it will prevent is market speculation - where people buy or sell or otherwise prepare to make money from this. If people do not know what changes will come they cannot make preparations beforehand.

Originally Posted by Keridwyn

Delaying the sale until later in the day to ease off the initial rush is good

I think that will only make people camp the placard. Though, might be slightly better because the players who failed to get a house will blame trolls instead of the server.
I could really see the ones who were up to no good will find a way to disrupt others.
Trade cancels, Covering the placard with fat chocobo, holy spams, spreading false information.

And it might be just like Ixion farm all over again, where people couldn't get in the ward, because there are too many people in the ward due to people camping in the ward.

Thank you for the reply.

Most peoples had problem with the login & with the launcher not responding, therefore delaying login and then once they were able to login... there was a massive queue or even error while queuing.

Here's the error message I got while waiting in queue.

I have also seen many that were able to find a free plot, but when trying to relocate their existing house, they received an error, even though the plot was free.

I just feel that most people were after a large plot, but there just wasn't enough housing availability and many had settled for small or medium, if they were lucky enough to get a house in Shirogane.

Adding extra wards does help with availability, but I would like to see more Medium House and Large Mansion plots being offered. Also another increase in outdoor furnishings slots would be great!

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

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.

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!