Housing Woes

[MizArai]

A few points he said. Not possible he said while begging to be proved wrong. Okay, here's my guide to leveling an FC, the smart way.

Step 1: Ditch the guides that tell you to gather thousands of items and craft militia chokers. It's 2018, not 2015 my lala.

Step 2: Fill your inventory with ilvl 220/ ilvl 170 items on the market board that players have obtained from ventures and therefore don't have any clue what they are actually worth. If you know your way around the market board, chances are you already bought these HQ 220 items that were being sold for 5000 gil but since you're here...

Step 3: Ignore the /tell you just received about this player who's trying to lowball you on overpriced vintage items that nobody crafts, because you know he's gonna buy them anyway.



Step 4: Teleport to your GC

Step 5: Watch this short repetitive video:https://www.twitch.tv/videos/329884659

Step 6: Come back to the forums and pretend not to be upset because you got proved wrong.

Ilvl 250 - 750pts
Ilvl 220 - 660pts
Ilvl 180 - 540pts
Ilvl 170 - 510 pts

Inventory: 140 slots

Do the math.

That's a lot of prep work aka more than 2 minutes, but it really does just prove that it doesn't take long if someone knows what they're doing.

[NotOliverB]

Prep work? You should already have these if you look at the market board. And even if you don't, it takes 10 minutes to purchase the items you need. Top.

[MidnightHimitsu]

Saw this thread and just needed to vent so just let me okay? I play on Mateus. Houses come up 1-3 every 3-4 days. Only S plots normally. Once a M in the 3 months I have been playing. I am a big RP player love the FC im in etc. I want a house for story reason between GF and I IG. Won't bond till we have a house. S comes up. sat for 10 hours. Relocator comes up and takes it. S come sup. Sat for 5 hours. Relocator comes up and grabs it. M comes up. SAT FOR TWENTY HOURS to get it. Relocator comes up and takes it. This has been my days off from work to do this. Housing is ridiculous to the Asheron's call level. For those who don't know what they did they announced housing then released about 400 houses for the entire server when at low they had over 700k accounts not counting duplicates. We have 600k accounts on one server! Let's release 600 houses should be fine right? I also want to include the jerks with the grandfather clause who still own several houses but only log in to keep their houses from house release. Having the ability to own a house and a FC house is stupid. FC housing should be instanced like apartments were in 11. That would free up houses for other people (maybe)

Having invisible timers is useless and infuriating. I can't even buy a house from someone willing to sell it cause of the timer. Having relocation as a FC only option is also making me hate this game. Okay my vent is over sorry just had yet another house sniped from me after waiting hours.


Edit: Also discovered people running bots to sit and click for them to try to buy the house every so often. Easily done as I was informed with a simple mouse repeating 3rd party program allowing them to sit at an available house when not at the computer and try to buy the house without having to sit there for hours on end.

[MizArai]

Saw this thread and just needed to vent so just let me okay? I play on Mateus. Houses come up 1-3 every 3-4 days. Only S plots normally. Once a M in the 3 months I have been playing. I am a big RP player love the FC im in etc. I want a house for story reason between GF and I IG. Won't bond till we have a house. S comes up. sat for 10 hours. Relocator comes up and takes it. S come sup. Sat for 5 hours. Relocator comes up and grabs it. M comes up. SAT FOR TWENTY HOURS to get it. Relocator comes up and takes it. This has been my days off from work to do this. Housing is ridiculous to the Asheron's call level. For those who don't know what they did they announced housing then released about 400 houses for the entire server when at low they had over 700k accounts not counting duplicates. We have 600k accounts on one server! Let's release 600 houses should be fine right? I also want to include the jerks with the grandfather clause who still own several houses but only log in to keep their houses from house release. Having the ability to own a house and a FC house is stupid. FC housing should be instanced like apartments were in 11. That would free up houses for other people (maybe)

Having invisible timers is useless and infuriating. I can't even buy a house from someone willing to sell it cause of the timer. Having relocation as a FC only option is also making me hate this game. Okay my vent is over sorry just had yet another house sniped from me after waiting hours.

Relocation isn't an FC only option. If you had a personal house, you could use the relocation option to transfer to another plot (as you're not over the item limit). And it would free up more houses to make personal houses instanced instead of FC houses. Sorry that you're now on one of the more populated servers (Mateus sat mostly empty before the free transfers from Balmung), so it's a bit harder to get a house. I agree that the invisible RNG timers make it super hard to get your first house on a populated server, but I don't see that changing any time soon. I wish you the best of luck in trying to get yourself your first home!

[worldofneil]

A few points he said. Not possible he said while begging to be proved wrong. Okay, here's my guide to leveling an FC, the smart way.

Well thank you for your reply and explanation, but you've just said exactly what I already said about handing in items in bulk to level up the FC. You just went into more detail about it. My point was that it's not possible to do this in just a few minutes as you claimed and you've just confirmed that I was correct in that statement.

I also can't help but notice that the economy on your server is considerably different to mine. We don't have an abundance of 170+ items on the marketboard, and certainly not at prices you'd want to pay in bulk (nothing like 5k each!). However, we also have a lot of available houses/choice and from what I understand that's not the case on your server.

If you want a true tip to levelling an FC fast, just buy one from another player who's already levelled it. There's always people moving server who have them to offload and even with the marketboard prices you're paying, it'll be cheaper too.

[Araminta]

Honestly... first-time home buyers need to just buy whatever plot is open first, then worry about getting their dream plot later. Relocating is really the only reliable method to getting the plot you want.

I agree! When the new wards came out I settled for my non-dream small plot. When I saw the plot open up I relocated ASAP. I think it's all about helping the veteran players get what they want as they have been playing longer, Im not saying newbies can't but they need to go through stages we did. I know on Lich the small plots are abundant.

[MeriAngel]

I wish they gave more money back to those who want to give up home so as to make more available. I know many who dont want to be part of the seller problem - but really want some money back and to transfer to a small (which is what I want) will loose me over 10mil.
I know it is a money sink- but it shouldn't be this much of a ding.

[Dreamer130]

well its been a few days and still no luck, with 2 of us waiting and hoping for a small house anywhere only for it to be taken by a faster clicker or a relocater :/
just be nice to actually get somewhere so then we can actually get on the housing scene.

Also no were not making an fc to get a house since were happy with the fc we in.

[Numenor1379]

A FC would have the same problems getting a house anyways.

[Dustytome]

well its been a few days and still no luck, with 2 of us waiting and hoping for a small house anywhere only for it to be taken by a faster clicker or a relocater :/
just be nice to actually get somewhere so then we can actually get on the housing scene.

Best of luck on your house hunting, I know it can be frustrating. Just a small reminder for when you do actually get one if you're sharing it, the person that buys the plot (for personal plots) is the owner. The owner is the only person that will reset the 45 day auto demolition timer by entering the house (tenants will not reset the timer). Keep this in mind if you're splitting costs or adding furniture together and one of you tends to take long breaks from the game or has less interest.