Something has to be done about the housing RNG timer...

[Hash_Browns]

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This would lead to +50mil small houses, houses that barely leave the timer because people keep outbidding each other, and the same experience: people having to put aside hours to assure they get the house.

This potential system isn't better. It would just cost more.

[Akamukai]

Wait, what's this about a RNG timer? Isn't it just the first to click after the timer ends gets the house?

[Vahlnir]

Wait, what's this about a RNG timer? Isn't it just the first to click after the timer ends gets the house?

Yeah, but the timer is completely random. It could be an hour, it could be a day. I don't necessarily agree with it but I understand why they added it.

[Hash_Browns]

Wait, what's this about a RNG timer? Isn't it just the first to click after the timer ends gets the house?

Housing has an invisible timer. The timer you see is the timer that drops the price of the house. The invisible timer makes it so the house can't be bought until the timer runs out. Apparently it goes from anywhere from a couple hours to 24 hours.

[Akamukai]

Housing has an invisible timer. The timer you see is the timer that drops the price of the house. The invisible timer makes it so the house can't be bought until the timer runs out. Apparently it goes from anywhere from a couple hours to 24 hours.

Dang, had no idea. And here I lost my house because I wasn't active enough. Guess I should have held onto it better.

[Losara]

Dang, had no idea. And here I lost my house because I wasn't active enough. Guess I should have held onto it better.

We shouldn't have to be subbed to hold onto houses since we've already paid for them.

If housing was designed the way apartments are we wouldn't have to. At the moment houses are a limited resource so unfortunately we have to deal with it since otherwise we'd end up with even worse deserted wards and no active players having a house.

Can only see this becoming more of an issue the more popular the game becomes.

[TheJarvisMan]

Wait, what's this about a RNG timer? Isn't it just the first to click after the timer ends gets the house?

The timer itself is random and invisible to anyone. It also has a range of up to at least 22 hours meaning that to maximize your chance at a getting a house you stand at the placard spam-clicking against everyone else from the time it opens up until the time the random/invisible clock runs up (which again can be at least up to 22 hours).

[Akamukai]

The timer itself is random and invisible to anyone. It also has a range of up to at least 22 hours meaning that to maximize your chance at a getting a house you stand at the placard spam-clicking against everyone else from the time it opens up until the time the random/invisible clock runs up (which again can be at least up to 22 hours).

There's currently a bot camping the house I want, so I'm not even going to bother.

[Elkanah]

There's currently a bot camping the house I want, so I'm not even going to bother.

If you know it's a bot, you can report the bot. I've reported several users using key programs (you can tell with how many minutes and seconds per check and look away of the placard). If they're at set times, you'll know each time they check by just hovering over their name and watching the clock. They're not hard to tell who is and isn't a bot lol.

[MaybeOliverB]

This would lead to +50mil small houses, houses that barely leave the timer because people keep outbidding each other, and the same experience: people having to put aside hours to assure they get the house.

This potential system isn't better. It would just cost more.

2.1 prices or higher would be beneficial as it would actually remove a lot of gil from the game instead of having it simply exchange hands. 50m right now is absolutely nothing because SE has nerfed housing prices into the ground.

Let people fight each other through the devaluation timer, not by using automation or by wasting their free time.