Adding housing after a Maint. Why?

[RayneLittlewinkle]

Do you guys really think the queue will be that bad even when people without a home can't buy one this time around? The new restrictions has cut more than half of server's population down by only allowing relocation or FC purchases.

Granted I am sure some people are going to still try just to see if they could do a loop hole and get a personal home

[HiroKirito]

In response to the why a week later, the bottlenecking was a joke when 4.2 released followed by emergency maintainance. This was just for new content and the raid. It would have been 100 times worse had housing also been unlocked at the same time and impacted other people not interested in housing.

Regardless had it launched at 4.2 you would have still had exactly the same issue. Maintaince always happens before they add and it always ends around the same time. They operate off of Jpn working hours and NA drew the
Short straw due to time zones. Nothing more to it than that.

And as for the 1 hour thing. Seems like an oversight that it is not on the lodestone, but it's was directly from Yoshi himself in the Live letter. I watched it. Go back and watch it yourself if you need the proof.

[BeatrixEiffel]

And as for the 1 hour thing. Seems like an oversight that it is not on the lodestone, but it's was directly from Yoshi himself in the Live letter. I watched it. Go back and watch it yourself if you need the proof.

I watched it but I don't speak Japanese. It wasn't mentioned in any of the English translations I read. Can anyone else that understands Japanese confirm this for us please?

[illgot]

Why bother adding it a week later then? They could have just added it last Tuesday? Same rush. Same bottleneck. Same issue of people not being able to get houses.

It's to separate the people excited to log on instantly to access content versus people doing so to get a house.

You have to remember that housing this round is also starting an hour after the servers go live to give people a chance to get in.

[killstein]

the only thing i'm worried about is camping. i'm assuming the newer wards will be available for access as soon as maintenance concludes, giving people the ability to run to their desired house and wait until it becomes available for purchase. idk how i feel about having 20 people standing around a placard lol but for relocating i'm curious if the former rule still applies meaning no restriction or again, you have to wait an hour for all houses to be purchaseable/relocation worthy. i'm thinking the latter...

[fantasticm]

for relocating i'm curious if the former rule still applies meaning no restriction or again, you have to wait an hour for all houses to be purchaseable/relocation worthy. i'm thinking the latter...

If the new wards were up for relocation but locked for new purchases in that first hour, the shitstorm would be so immense we'd be getting 5 new wards every major patch until 5.0.

[killstein]

yea that's why i don't think they'd do something that stupid. also rereading the slide/other material it makes it sound like they'll bc fc only, for purchase, definitely, but not sure about relocation. hmm...

i just hope they keep the wards locked until the hour passes, it'll really put fcs on equal footing looking to buy instead of "how fast can you click/navigate a d-pad" right at the placard.

[BeatrixEiffel]

Bummer no one could substantiate the one hour claim. It would have given me a little hope.

[Cylla]

I recall reading somewhere that housing will only open an HOUR after servers open up, possibly to avoid people DCing.

Can anyone confirm?

No, as people above said nobody knows if it actually true. Best bet is to just be on and ready to go the moment servers go live.

[Tussin]

i just think its cheap when personals can relocate from a small to a large before FC's get their chance, medium's are more plentiful and still a great enough size for personals