Please remove random purchase timer!

[Sairys]

Since I'm still new to FFXIV, perhaps I'm not understanding why it's not possible for a person to just walk up and buy a house if they see an empty plot. If it were that way, would it not mean that even if gold were exchanged for the plot, the seller would have no control over someone just walking up and purchasing the plot if it's available - so it wouldn't be something that any buyer would do? Thus, there wouldn't be flipping because there won't be people willing to risk giving their gil to someone when they wouldn't have a guarantee of getting the plot. Perhaps I'm just naive.

This is how house selling used to work and made flipping really easy. At the end of the day, if you're selling a house you can just not start the process if you can see any player nearby other than the buyer.

Barring just being able to purchase a plot outright, I do support the lottery system, but only if it collects a certain number of people's entries and is within a certain time frame if the limit isn't reached. As an example, if a plot were to come open, it would accept the first _X_ people's entries who try to buy the house, or it would only stay available to accept entries for 12 hours - whichever comes first. That way, people who are actively trying for homes won't have to sit there for days praying for RNG to bless them, and those who get to it early will have a better chance at getting a try because the entry limit may not have been reached yet . (And they won't have to wait forever to find out if they won or not if they do get an entry.)

There's no real reason to limit the number of entries to anything less than everyone or make the time for entries less than 24 hours.

All that really achieves is pushing people to constantly check the boards because it's still a form RNG to be waiting for decay timers to pop, then on top of that you're praying RNG works out in your favour at the end of the auction.

If you doubled down on this with a 12 hour time limit for the winner to complete the transaction then you're also introducing the joy of hoping the 12 hours to claim actually falls in a window you can actually play in.
Combined with a limited number of entries this would mean you'd probably need to avoid bidding on stuff until later in your normal play time. Otherwise you're either bidding on stuff you'd need to pay for when you can't be online, or you're running the risk of delays in you being online the next day causing you to miss the deadline.


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Personally I'd rather wait til the auto-demo timers are back up, then look at the impact of people who got grandfathered into the new ownership rules (i.e people with more than 1 personal and 1 fc house), and then have another look at the acquisition method.
If we get housing to the point that there's more plots than people interested in housing the timers shouldn't be an issue because we'd likely start seeing plots going for reduced prices.