House Timer RNG

[Dustytome]

Bad idea as it could be abused by bots intercepting the information to the client or the less advanced bots by abusing the visual change. In both ways they would be able to buy the house before you even see the change on your map what would make impossible to compete. Not sure if here we have same delay like on MP when you click too fast between items, but if is present that means everyone have equal chance.

They can also check the placard consistently for hours/days without breaks. Might as well make it easier for actual players to see if something actually available.

[Madbunny]

They can also check the placard consistently for hours/days without breaks. Might as well make it easier for actual players to see if something actually available.

But then they are easy to spot. Even if SE doesnt have right now any mechanism to spot this kind of bots it would be easy for them to make one, e.g. if a character does more than X amount of clicks in Y amount of time GM gets the notification and can easily check what is going on. Actually this is so easy to spot that no bots are using this actions anymore and i saw GM fighting all sorts of bots in other games (as FF isnt my 1st MMO). Other solution would be some random timer for checks with long pauses but then there is no point to run them and legitimate players are back in the "game" with same chance to grab the plot.

[MizArai]

But then they are easy to spot.

That's the point. Right now people will spend 5+ hours camping a placard to maybe get a plot. I've seen people camp a placard that long for an FC house only to have someone relocate to the plot, which means people then have to find and camp the new plot wherever that is. If there was some way to distinguish between plots that will be available for purchase and plots that are available for purchase it would make things much easier. People could camp an aetheryte if they needed a new house, while relocaters could still just move when they see anything open.