Lodestone: Additional Plots and Purchasing Guide

[Nerfworthy]

For FC houses and relocating, it will be one hour after servers come online and servers will not come online early. This means servers will go live at 2am PST/5am EST and houses will open at 3am PST/6am EST.

Oh my. I was there for the 4.1 log in rush and I made it in while many others didn't. So this is a good thing, I think. Although I can see everyone piling around the aetheryte spam clicking and potentially make things worse lol

[Flashgordon1975]

This is a problem. Just being in an FC doesn't mean you run the FC, have authority in the FC, or can access all the amenities. Someone may be in an FC with one character to play with friends, but they want to start their own FC on another character. They don't own the house for the other FC and may not even be able to access more than the basic items. It's not right they wouldn't be able to purchase their own FC house when they don't already own one.

Leave the FC for a day and then come back?

[Arazehl]

This is a problem. Just being in an FC doesn't mean you run the FC, have authority in the FC, or can access all the amenities. Someone may be in an FC with one character to play with friends, but they want to start their own FC on another character. They don't own the house for the other FC and may not even be able to access more than the basic items. It's not right they wouldn't be able to purchase their own FC house when they don't already own one.

Thing is it doesn't say if you are a member of an FC your character can't buy. It states you may "Own one FC and one private house. The person who is head of the FC is considered as owner and may relocate that FC. It will count towards them as their one FC, regardless of who has permissions to relinquish/demolish. This is my understanding.

[MizArai]

Thing is it doesn't say if you are a member of an FC your character can't buy. It states you may "Own one FC and one private house. The person who is head of the FC is considered as owner and may relocate that FC. It will count towards them as their one FC, regardless of who has permissions to relinquish/demolish. This is my understanding.

If you are a member of an FC with a house, then you own the FC house in SE's eyes, since some day you might inherit the FC if everyone else goes inactive.

[TaleraRistain]

Thing is it doesn't say if you are a member of an FC your character can't buy. It states you may "Own one FC and one private house. The person who is head of the FC is considered as owner and may relocate that FC. It will count towards them as their one FC, regardless of who has permissions to relinquish/demolish. This is my understanding.

It does. From that page.

"Has another character on the same World that is a member of a free company that owns land" and the column for Eligible to Purchase Free Company Land is "No"

It's as the MizArai described. And you would have to do what Flash says and leave the FC to purchase the land. That's a broken system when it actively encourages you to leave your FC.

[Tussin]

It does. From that page.

"Has another character on the same World that is a member of a free company that owns land" and the column for Eligible to Purchase Free Company Land is "No"

It's as the MizArai described. And you would have to do what Flash says and leave the FC to purchase the land. That's a broken system when it actively encourages you to leave your FC.

i think they are doing it that way as another preventative measure against people hoarding

[Darrcyphfeid]

This is ultimately just the end result of what the community has been begging Square to do: Make it harder for people to hoard houses/buy them up for the express purpose of reselling.

Unfortunately they did that without realizing that anything Square does to inconvenience that small subset of players will also inconvenience everyone else in the process. Arguably moreso.

[Vrankyl]

Personal housing is a complete unknown. They may opt to post an advance notice, as they're doing with this Feb 6th maintenance, or they could pull a Christmas 2015 and just randomly flip the switch at any time from 6am EST on Feb 6th onwards. For the sake of your sanity, I would hold out on camping plots while praying it's the former.

I doubt we will see anything on Personal housing for at least a week or two after its been available to FCs. The housing site itself says they will monitor the situation with housing and investigate the potential of allowing private purchases again. To me this means they will likely do a once a month data review the way it seems they handle server pop status checks.

[Rinuko]

I doubt we will see anything on Personal housing for at least a week or two after its been available to FCs. The housing site itself says they will monitor the situation with housing and investigate the potential of allowing private purchases again. To me this means they will likely do a once a month data review the way it seems they handle server pop status checks.

2 weeks or more. Maybe a month. But we all know by that time it will be too late (people would made small FC) and a shitstorm will hit both
forums and Reddit.


I even see how people would flip houses with FCs. Buckle up people

[Tussin]

2 weeks or more. Maybe a month. But we all know by that time it will be too late (people would made small FC) and a shitstorm will hit both
forums and Reddit.


I even see how people would flip houses with FCs. Buckle up people

the only way that can work in the new system is if someone wanted to have their own FC that doesn't currently own one... so -_-