Thread: 4.2 Housing Update

Originally Posted by Mithia

I highly doubt players will have to get rid of their houses on patch day, even if they have multiple houses how do you decide which one they get to keep and which one they have to abandon, they may not even be able to log in on patch day to decide that for themselves.

I was not even saying that people should get rid of it which patch release (if you even mean my post). Just that with the new patch they would enforce the rule that anyone that already owns one personal and one fc house per server cant just buy more with alts. That would be fair imo because people can still keep their houses but with that patch forward they cant just get more on the same server.

Anyway I still dont understand what the new way to obtain a house will be if we only get the houses over a period of time anyway..because a lottery system would have taken care of this without the need for the time span (and no I dont like the lottery)

Originally Posted by Acilith

A lottery on all relinquished plots would DEFINITELY obliterate the flipper issue though.

Only partly. They would still be able to try it and probably some will get lucky. (And depending how many houses you can choose it might be even more of them) Sadly even if this might punish sellers (which they already could with the one fc/prive house per server..) this will also not be great for the rest of us. Some might finally get their house but a lot of people will just lose to the lottery RNG instead of other RNG. It will change nothing big with the housing system.

The only thing where it might stop flippers is when the house that will be freed will be put to lottery too so that they cant just simply sell it anymore but that would also mean that someone cant get lucky after an demolishing and just get their house..they would have to compete with others there too. (Kinda wondering how a lottery will function with such houses?)

So no I cant see much positive for a lottery system but since its an often written idea in the Japanese forum they will likely use that..

Originally Posted by Rinuko

Was exacly my thoughts too. Until we can read the new purchase restrictions in patch notes i'm going to assume it litterally the same system as today. Still going to be a rush. STill going to be a shitstorm

Yeah its kinda frustrating that they are not sharing informations until its too late because they fear that people will just prepare themselves for that...but those that already want a house will have the money ready for it so how can they even prepare more? I mean flippers will already try to prepare for things like an auction or an lottery system..not giving us a hint of what is to come will just leave those that dont have much out of the run. I also get the feeling like they knew that this is going to fail or can be misused..and if this is true I kinda question why they are not doing anything against that before they are releasing it? If 4.2 does not change anything big or is just another band aid that will leave most of the people without houses..I really hope that they will get all the rightful criticism that they deserve for this...there is only so much that people are willing to take..