Dev Requests Housing Timers

[cicatriz313]

Why would waiting for a slowdown make sense? Your chances of getting a house when only one or two is on sale is much worse.

Uh, no? If you aren't in any rush to get a house, you can get one quite easily on most servers because people get bored quite fast in this game. Buuuut I see you're in Balmung, so meh.

[alimdia]

Uh, no? If you aren't in any rush to get a house, you can get one quite easily on most servers because people get bored quite fast in this game. Buuuut I see you're in Balmung, so meh.

No, in most servers you can't get one quite easily, most servers aren't like Midgardsormr. Few NA servers had housing available all the time before auto demo was removed.

[cicatriz313]

No, in most servers you can't get one quite easily, most servers aren't like Midgardsormr. Few NA servers had housing available all the time before auto demo was removed.

Well, notice how these types of threads tend to only pop up at times when people have massive housing shifts and housing demo has been off, and you wonder why...

[alimdia]

Well, notice how these types of threads tend to only pop up at times when people have massive housing shifts and housing demo has been off, and you wonder why...

These threads popped very frequently on Reddit, not everyone uses these forums.

[Vahlnir]

I get why they added the random timers but I do think it's a little excessive. The actual wait time definitely needs to be reduced. The ideal solution would be creating enough housing for everyone but that's not realistic atm.

[BillyKaplan]

The ideal solution would be creating enough housing for everyone but that's not realistic atm.

Not if you want to have a neighborhood attached, no. But Apartments already give us the system needed, what they need to do is create bubbles your private, instanced house will exist in that you'll teleport to. Heck, make a way for people to cross-garden in-doors and you lose a lot of the functional need for a yard, too, so you can simply teleport people inside the house itself rather than to the main gate.

And you'd be surprised how many people will stop at a medium if not outright a small, since not everyone actually wants a large.

Thing is, if no other reason, they won't do that because you can store more items in even a small house (I think at least) than you can in an apartment, so that's one motivation why they won't go there.

[LalaRu]

Lower timers will advantage more the spawn-camping people than everyone else, maybe even worsen the situation, with hordes waiting at the plate because timer is expiring "soon".

It is best to keep timers as they are now, and good luck.

[Crushnight]

Lower timers will advantage more the spawn-camping people than everyone else, maybe even worsen the situation, with hordes waiting at the plate because timer is expiring "soon".

It is best to keep timers as they are now, and good luck.

i do not think so current timers can punish you with having no access due to basic stuff like sleep, a maximum of 8 hr timer (but can be random before that time) would be far less punishing. Do bare in mind current timers can run up to 24hrs+, people can be stupid and decide to stay at the placard spamming until the plot has sold, that kind of thing is incredibly unhealthy but the current system can make players feel forced to do that just for a chance at a house and this was something FF11 had bad news articles about when people tried to kill Pandemonium Warden. The big difference between the two is PW was forced to be that length while the Housing isn't, but People do not have a choice in the Plot buying timers and no knowledge when it is up so they can feel forced to stay there for the entire day(I do mean a literal 24hrs) if they are stupid/desperate enough and i think SE should try to mitigate that level of desperation/stupidity

[Flu]

I made a recent post suggesting a fix for this timer. It involves replacing it with a lottery system. If you all would like to give it a read and offer suggestions that would be awesome

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...on-For-housing

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Honestly if they want to keep it a random system, at least make this a lottery. We all pay the plot price up front, get thrown into a pile, and can get on with our lives while praying RNGesus favors us. If it does, hurray - we got a house without wasting our lives and playtime clicking a placard like mindless drones! If it doesn't, we get our money refunded and just try again at the next one.

I hate the randomness of this, but at least make it so we aren't wasting actual playtime trying for a chance at a house because SE refuses to make a better system. I'd be a lot happier with a lotto than this hidden timer BS.