Remove timer SE

[Almagnus1]

This is precisely what makes the situation infuriating. The tech is there, SE can well afford to do this. And everyone knows this. But having the money and wanting to spend it on housing are not the same thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's some seemingly random reason for why this isn't possible tied to 1.0's design decision that makes this far more expensive than we would have thought.

That, and I don't think it's going to be taken seriously until Yoshi-P (or another major dev) decides to try to get a house on the live service as housing probably isn't high on their list of things to fix.

As long as all we have is wards I seriously doubt they ever will.

Also factor in FFXIV's growth... that's another aggravating factor for this issue. Owning an entire ward on a low pop server was fine back in ARR or HW when we didn't have near as many players... now... it's tying up a scarce resource.

I just want the housing system to no longer rely on luck.

I think that's what a lot of us want (at least, those that aren't rubbing it in our faces that they have multiple private houses, multiple shell FCs, or are just trolling).

Ugh some of the comments you have gotten about that timer thread have been awful. You're not directly responsible for it. The most likely thing is that you and SE had the same idea.

Yeah, it's like "that was almost three years ago when it was posted, why are you necroing/linking to it?"

The timer does definitely hinder most house flipping but because the housing system is so flawed it ended up replacing that issue with another issue.

I don't know if there's really a good solution there. I imagine SE was probably getting enough tickets about some random person walking up and stealing the house, or someone deciding to peace out after the trade, that they wanted to take a nuclear option to the problem. Then there's the distinct possibility that there was RMT activity tied to accruing enough gil to get a house off of one of the the house trading sites.

However....

Having it potentially has high as 24 hours isn't helping anyone and we have seen it creates a lot of unhappiness. I think a max of five hours would be enough for it to still function as intended without players doing something as unhealthy as camp for more hours than a work shift.

This is not a good thing, and definitely needs to be looked at. Camping a house site for anymore than about four hours (let alone as long as some have reported) is not healthy, and SE should make it a priority to find a solution (like raffling off the lot) so that this kind of behavior isn't possible in FFXIV.