So if new housing drops.

[Driavna]

Because who would pay another player 999 mil to abandon a plot and then *still* have to sit there themselves click-camping the sign post for hours because of the random timer, with a chance to lose it to someone else?

Hello?

Not long ago someone was willing to buy my plot to move theirs after I abandon it. FFXIV housing has a lot of holes in that regard.

[Liam_Harper]

I don't quite understand why players buy houses off other players for hundreds of millions. Since it isn't covered by the ToS, isn't it perfectly legal for the seller to just take your money and run? Or am I missing something?

[Nemmar]

new housing? did I miss anything?

Nothing confirmed.

People are just assuming that Ishgard housing will happen after the reconstruction event.

[Shougun]

Nothing confirmed.

People are just assuming that Ishgard housing will happen after the reconstruction event.

Wonder if it will open up farming, something they've also vaguely mentioned. Farmlands via reconstruction or something. Need some nice place to grow stuff after losing so much good land to snow, maybe lol.

[Big_Bap]

1) Multiboxing 40 alts would require 40 systems the game could run on.

2) To buy a house you still need to have certain requirements to fullfill, like reaching level 50 and being a second lieutenant in one of the GCs. They would need to level 40 alts to 50 AND do all that GC-stuff (I doubt that buying jump potions would be worth the investment)

3) Other people - no matter how good that persons scrpits are, I'd imagine they'd end up in a queue just like everyone else so its not a given that all 40 alts will get logged in in time.

4) The question: Can 40 alts even be created on the server in question? Some servers are after all simply completly locked for character creation or only have some tiny windows to allow for a few characters being created. Lots of the bots we're seeing atm on the EU-servers are being created on the new ones and use the world travel to come over, because they just cant create characters on the popular servers.

5) To make 40 alts on one servers you need to buy the game 5 times and pay 5 subscriptions... not impossible, obviously, and I suppose we all know of someone doing that to game the housing market, but still not a very likely scenario.

I'll give you the benefit to assume your post was a bit hyperbolic, so to answer the underlying question: Will the housing market be gamed? - Sure, to a degree, probably. Globaly speaking the odd plot will go to someone who technically shouldnt have that plot - like a shell-FC. But log in queues, restrictions on character creation and who can even buy land are making a scenario you described pretty unlikely...

1: I run up to 6 clients on a single computer without even using virtualization. Sounds like you have no idea what you are talking about.

2: Leveling up an FC to rank 6 is a question of minutes if you know what you are doing. Things aren't improving for you.

3: The only accurate thing you've said.

4: There's 7 congested servers out of 68. Balmung, Gilgamesh, Mateus... all open...

5: You think it isn't likely for someone to spend less than 100$ per month for a hobby? lmfao

Here's a chance to redeem yourself. Easy question. What are the current restriction regarding FC housing on a server basis?

I don't quite understand why players buy houses off other players for hundreds of millions. Since it isn't covered by the ToS, isn't it perfectly legal for the seller to just take your money and run? Or am I missing something?

Scamming is against the ToS.

[SomeRandomHuman]

5) To make 40 alts on one servers you need to buy the game 5 times and pay 5 subscriptions... not impossible, obviously, and I suppose we all know of someone doing that to game the housing market, but still not a very likely scenario.
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Standard account lets you have 8 characters on 1 server, so they'd be paying 5 subscription fees to this, but its not exactly uncommon for people to invest a lot into something they enjoy.

[Raven2014]

Standard account lets you have 8 characters on 1 server, so they'd be paying 5 subscription fees to this, but its not exactly uncommon for people to invest a lot into something they enjoy.

And only 1 character can be log in at a time. So in this scenario it will require the person to log in, buy a house, log out, get back into the queue (because you can bet there will be queue when housing drop), log in again, rinse and repeat 7 times. If you think that would somehow favor the players in question, think again.

The problem with hyperbolic arguments is it treats every variables as independence all push to the extreme, but in reality it doesn't happen. So I believe this is the best answer so far in this thread:

Reality.

/10char

[Shougun]

Not that I'm saying it will happen but just wanted to say people shouldn't think it's that weird to spend LOADs of money on a game, we hear about this all the time for mobile games- thousands of dollars in a month. I personally know people who almost regularly spend around a hundred every month in this game's cash shop (they buy all the things lol).

Would it really be that weird that of all the players in a data center to have at least one person with multiple accounts (and multibox)? Now getting them all herded into the housing ahead of all the other players trying to get in would be quite the challenge lol.. but I think it's a bit unrealistic to think there is not multiple people in this game who own and operate multiple accounts. And of those few, some who are able to muster means to manage them at least half decently as a unit (clearly we've bots that can do that on a very large scale).

I mean we've basically got someone coming out and saying as much (wealthy in game, willing to spend real cash, many accounts, multi-house owner). Certainly some challenges in racing people with 40 characters under your belt but where there is a will there may be a way (bots, getting friends to help out, throwing 40 characters at the queue wall and at least getting 3 through lol, etc).

Maybe the whole 999 mil thing is a bit of a steep price lol but some people play this game so much, pay for things with their own money so much, that they've nothing to do but own houses like some king of monopoly slapping hotels down just because they can. Also while selling a house to someone who doesn't own a house wont work very well you can sell a house to a person who owns a shell house (which is what a lot of people do and recommend anyways even if you're not buying from a player, I see shell house frequently recommended as a way to move around the placard system). Shell housing = buying a house for the purpose of using it to relocate and not because you actually want that particular plot, this goes around the placard. Also you can use FC to sort of pass them around. (IIRC depending on how you do the above you can get in trouble in game, but I'm fairly certain the people who do the above probably are going to use discord or something).

So I guess I think it's not as dark as some people fear but not nearly as bright as some people are suggesting- at least I think that lol.

[Mistyregions]

Thank you guys for the input, I was just curious as the difficulty. I really see no end game to it unless you charged that 999mil for the housing then flipped it to a RMT place for 50 cents a mil. I am not promoting this in any way shape or form I'm just thinking about how less savory people may game the system, how you can protect yourself from this and maybe raise awareness.

[DarkMasamune]

Wonder if it will open up farming, something they've also vaguely mentioned. Farmlands via reconstruction or something. Need some nice place to grow stuff after losing so much good land to snow, maybe lol.

Hey to be honest I'd be SUPER down for that. It sounds fun and I've been expecting it since it was mentioned (not announced, sadly, but at least mentioned). It's OK if it ends up not happening, but I still think it's a darn good idea !