Dev Requests Housing Timers

[BillyKaplan]

With a lottery they can let people sign up for more than the one plot. If you won one lotteray, then the next roll you participate in will see - oh this person already has a plot, NEVER MIND, REROLLING.

The biggest problem system-wise I see with a lottery is that it is something the server initiates. When you try to click on a plot, the server checks then if the plot is open and tells the client whether or not it is. A lottery will have to be initiated by the server when the time is up.
A solution to that is that anyone who signed up for the lottery would have to come and check if they won or not .The first person who does that actually initiates the lottery. If it's theirs, hurray! If not, they take their money and skeedaddle. There's a short period after that for people to claim their plot or their money back. It's a bit of a hassle but it removes the responsibility for keeping track of time from the server, which would be why they wouldn't want to go there.

[Renato]

Having done this last night, I totally agree with the RNG timer being a PITA.

I was running around the Goblet for about 2-3 hours while doing some duties in between. I was literally running around from plot to plot hoping I'd find one that was allowed me to purchase it but kept getting the dreaded "This plots isn't available for purchase" message over and over again. I ran into another player, who I guess had noticed me running around looking for plots who told me that he'd been waiting for a particular plot for around 6 hours. (as if to shoo me away)

I ended up leaving my character AFK and went to watch TV for about another hour or so. I switched over to the game, clicked on the sign and ended up getting a house in a pretty cool loacation. :-D As satisfying as it was, it was still annoying AF! This was around 9-10pm CDT on Goblin.

I get why SE implemented this...but I feel like there needs to be another safeguard for this opposed to some invisible timer.

[Eriane_Elis]

Or just add more wards based on player population. Permit people to move their houses for free from one ward to another so that people can move into more populated communities (must be same house value so if you try to move your B class house to a A class house, it's a no-go, same with trying to move to a different sized house also it needs to be within the same residential area like you can't go from shirogane to lavender)

But you want to know why they don't implement a better housing system? Because they would lose money on subscription. People don't want to lose their mansion that cost 60mil gil + the furniture in it so they stay inactive but subbed, occasionally going back to their house.

[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.

[van_arn]

The issue right now is the price of housing is too low; too many people can afford a small (and that price cannot increase to adjust to the demand) so you get stupid camp battles like this.

We either need an auctioning system to skyrocket the price during periods of extreme scarcity, or we need upkeep costs to prevent anyone sitting on a house for too long without paying enough to maintain it.

Perhaps both. Ultimately, we need to get people out of houses sooner and get them in faster.

[Alpha087]

Would rather they just fix the overall problem which is not enough housing for everyone. I can think of six other MMORPGs off the top of my head that managed to provide every single player with the option to own a house. What's SE's excuse?

[MsMisato]

Would rather they just fix the overall problem which is not enough housing for everyone. I can think of six other MMORPGs off the top of my head that managed to provide every single player with the option to own a house. What's SE's excuse?

Too hard to code in this game. that will be the excuse.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Would rather they just fix the overall problem which is not enough housing for everyone. I can think of six other MMORPGs off the top of my head that managed to provide every single player with the option to own a house. What's SE's excuse?

And they're so stuck on neighborhoods that they're willing to let their playerbase suffer poor housing implementation and be unhappy rather than put in instanced housing.

We know they can do instanced housing. House interiors are already instanced, apartments are instanced - they have the ability to do it if they wanted. They just refuse to because they're so stuck on this neighborhood thing.

[Vahlnir]

And they're so stuck on neighborhoods that they're willing to let their playerbase suffer poor housing implementation and be unhappy rather than put in instanced housing.

We know they can do instanced housing. House interiors are already instanced, apartments are instanced - they have the ability to do it if they wanted. They just refuse to because they're so stuck on this neighborhood thing.

Players: "Can we have more houses, SE? Instanced housing would solve this issue..."

SE: "...but my immersion!"

[supergiz]

How is a lottery worse than not being able to play a game because if you want a house you better be clicking the sign to buy it for 11 hours

Yeah and that's just for a chance of maybe getting it b/c there are at least 2-3 other people doing the same thing on that house. The system is incredibly ridiculous and needs a revision. They are basically saying anyone with a shit to do IRL and who doesn't want to make this game their life you to basically give up any hope of getting a house.

Having done this last night, I totally agree with the RNG timer being a PITA.

I was running around the Goblet for about 2-3 hours while doing some duties in between. I was literally running around from plot to plot hoping I'd find one that was allowed me to purchase it but kept getting the dreaded "This plots isn't available for purchase" message over and over again. I ran into another player, who I guess had noticed me running around looking for plots who told me that he'd been waiting for a particular plot for around 6 hours. (as if to shoo me away)

I ended up leaving my character AFK and went to watch TV for about another hour or so. I switched over to the game, clicked on the sign and ended up getting a house in a pretty cool loacation. :-D As satisfying as it was, it was still annoying AF! This was around 9-10pm CDT on Goblin.

I get why SE implemented this...but I feel like there needs to be another safeguard for this opposed to some invisible timer.

You got really lucky being on a low pop server. On excaliber at any given time there are at least 2-3 people sometimes going up to 10 plus on an open plot. Sometimes you get lucky at very odd hours with nobody at a plot, but even when that happens it isn't long until ppl start showing up.