Housing market

[RayneLittlewinkle]

There are still plots "open" on Balmung A few maybe like 6? In the Mist and probably 10 in the goblet. HOWEVER these plots have a timer and can bet your last cookie they are being camped. So good luck everyone!

[Dzian]

Honestly, the invisible timer is great. It removes the resale of houses. There was always a crew on my server who bought everything right as soon as you could, wait a week while people complain and report dealers, then go sell discreetly and quote profitably

The resale of plots was never a problem to begin with. The problem was the people that bought them for the sole purpose of flipping.

They need a legitimate resale and exchange system in place there are quite a few people that would like to get plots near there mates and make a neighbourhood of friends sort of thing but instead are scattered here there and everywhere.

Even more annoying when your friends have neighbouring plots but in a different ward. Like one has plot 11 in ward 3 and the other plot 12 in ward 7..

a legitimate exchange system might then allow that guy to swap his house with the owner of plot 12 in ward 3 so he can be neighbours with his mate

[Kytrin]

The resale of plots was never a problem to begin with. The problem was the people that bought them for the sole purpose of flipping.

They need a legitimate resale and exchange system in place there are quite a few people that would like to get plots near there mates and make a neighbourhood of friends sort of thing but instead are scattered here there and everywhere.

Even more annoying when your friends have neighbouring plots but in a different ward. Like one has plot 11 in ward 3 and the other plot 12 in ward 7..

a legitimate exchange system might then allow that guy to swap his house with the owner of plot 12 in ward 3 so he can be neighbours with his mate

I actually really like that idea! I know several in my FC would like to live closer together.

[Dzian]

Yeah I've known people that would like to be to get houses closer together for years now.

Has been said it's a big part of why the wards are so dead and never see many people there. Because there far to scattered.

[Boldprint]

there is a super easy fix to this, just open up a new ward every time one gets filled, it would stop all this. I have played this game for years and never been able to get a house. On Gilgamesh in ward 16 (one of the new ones) this one person bought out 12 slots the day they came out. Hasn't built on one, 10 of them are actually named unused house! During this time people just made FC's bought out housing slots, just to sell, before it even opened up to players.

[Maero]

Adding wards does not fix it though. Thankfully after 3 or so years i finally got a house but until instanced housing is added (at least as an option) there will always be players unable to get even the slightest chance of obtaining a home

[Vahlnir]

Adding wards does not fix it though. Thankfully after 3 or so years i finally got a house but until instanced housing is added (at least as an option) there will always be players unable to get even the slightest chance of obtaining a home

Hopefully they'll add more plots on a semi regular basis. While it might not have fixed the problem, it certainly increased the number of people who now have access to housing and its features. On high pop servers it's never going to be enough though. Instanced housing would help a lot, however.

[worldofneil]

On Gilgamesh in ward 16 (one of the new ones) this one person bought out 12 slots the day they came out.

Sorry, but that's actually impossible... The most they could possible buy in the new wards is 9.

The new rules allow only one FC purchase and one personal purchase per SE service account per world.

You could work around that with another person/3rd party to get up to 8 FCs, but they can't get past the personal restriction.

What you are probably seeing is either multiple people buying houses all with the same looking FC tag? They're all on different accounts, not the same person, they're just associated with each other.

Or, they just relocated a lot of existing housing all into the same ward (so they didn't take up any additional houses, their old houses would have gone back on the market)

[HyoMinPark]

You can't own 8 FC houses on a single server on a single account anymore. If you have a character that is in one FC, but an alt in another FC, if the first one owns a house or is part of an FC that owns a house, your character in the second FC is unable to purchase an FC plot.

Ownership of Free Company Estate Halls

If a character on your service account is a member of a free company that owns an estate, you will be unable to purchase a free company plot with any other characters on the same World on that service account.

* Relocation of a free company estate is still permitted.
* You may purchase land for a free company if:
・Your character is in a free company that does not own land.
・None of your other characters on the same World on that service account are in a free company that owns land.
* These conditions only apply to purchases made after the release of patch 4.2. Any land purchased before patch 4.2 will be unaffected, and no land or estates will be lost as a result of these changes.

[illgot]

You can't own 8 FC houses on a single server on a single account anymore. If you have a character that is in one FC, but an alt in another FC, if the first one owns a house or is part of an FC that owns a house, your character in the second FC is unable to purchase an FC plot.

That's actually wrong. You can keep buying houses as long as it is for an FC. I know the rules state otherwise but I think that's a mistranslation. You can have 8 fc houses on one account.