Dev Requests Housing Timers

[Crushnight]

You deemed Absolute Virtue and Pandemonium Warden as being too dangerous to players' health with regards to how long it would take to kill them in FF11. You have designed fights in FF14 to prevent this scenario from being repeated.

So WHY have you implemented a system that forces single player buyers to spam a single plaque for a house for a random amount of time and that can be more than 24 hours with no information players are forced to camp out if they want a house and spam buy if multiple people are there.

These timers need to be reduced significantly to maximum 8 hours

Yes players are choosing to remain there of their own free will but they have no choice if they want a House especially on more populated servers. SE can and should change them to reasonable timers or find another better system if they can.

[Sanctify]

Agree that the housing system is a total joke.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Yeah this has been an absolutely exhausting situation to deal with. SE should know better. 22 hours is far too much time for these slots to become available at literally any second.

[cicatriz313]

I would say maybe just don't try to get a house as soon as transfers open up. It'll die down once people get houses and stop playing the game again. Before housing demo was off, smalls all over the place were at 1.4 mil aka were sitting there forever. Wait for that, buy a small, relocate when your dream plot pops up. Yeah the system sucks when everyone wants housing, but people would complain no matter what system was there tbh.

[disturbedcobra]

I would say maybe just don't try to get a house as soon as transfers open up. It'll die down once people get houses and stop playing the game again. Before housing demo was off, smalls all over the place were at 1.4 mil aka were sitting there forever. Wait for that, buy a small, relocate when your dream plot pops up. Yeah the system sucks when everyone wants housing, but people would complain no matter what system was there tbh.

That would be the case in most other worlds. But in worlds like Balmung, that is less likely. Every open plot as at least 4+ people camping it meaning there wouldn't be any free ones even once this all dies down. -_-

[Hash_Browns]

That would be the case in most other worlds. But in worlds like Balmung, that is less likely. Every open plot as at least 4+ people camping it meaning there wouldn't be any free ones even once this all dies down. -_-

In Siren every spot seems to have 1 or 2 people set to private so they can't be messaged, constantly clicking the Placard.

[SerLuke]

In Siren every spot seems to have 1 or 2 people set to private so they can't be messaged, constantly clicking the Placard.

People do that so someone can’t trade them to stop the buying process.

[cicatriz313]

That would be the case in most other worlds. But in worlds like Balmung, that is less likely. Every open plot as at least 4+ people camping it meaning there wouldn't be any free ones even once this all dies down. -_-

I mean, yeah, there's nothing anyone can do for Balmung, you chose your fate lol.

[ExKage]

I mean, yeah, there's nothing anyone can do for Balmung, you chose your fate lol.

It's not just Balmung. If you're not on a small population server you're guaranteed to see at least 2 people camping the placards. Every plot on Cactuar has people scoping them trying to get it.

[Reylinn]

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.