With the crowd camping in each houses? Are my chances that good? And when more wards come, the same thing will happen again, not just for me.I read and I don't think you understand the fundamental reason of why a timer is installed (even you are claiming you did your research)
The timer is to prevent flip-flop in which often involving RMT.
Without this timer you will never see an empty plot to begin with since all trades were done under a sub-reddit of Reddit called FF14 Housing Market (forgot the actual name)
Under high demand from this same Housing forum, a timer is installed.
Normal players therefore now is able to see an empty plot showing up.
The timer was never meant to torture people, you did it to yourself.
The original idea is for players to check the empty plot occasionally but it is you who decides to non stop clicking.
I have tried camping before; but I only click it once when I got out of Frontline and I didn't feel stress.
It is your own choice not the system
System itself or course will never be perfect and since when we are able to create a perfect system to keep everyone happy?
The timer system is merely to give you a chance to obtain the plot.
If Yoship is true to himself in his interview, he did planning to move all housing wards to dedicate servers instead of attached to current server.
The plan was interrupted by the Covid 19 and 5.35 is just a band aid according to him.
You will need to have some patient and wait until all housing wards moved to dedicated server.
The increase in supply of plot is the true resolution
Again, what would it do you any good if you cant even see any empty plot?
Increase the supply is the only resolution as the popularity of FF14 rises
There will be no camping if the timer is removed because there will be no plots to camp. Before the timer was brought in houses were snapped up within minutes or even less. It was so rare to see an open plot.
I got my house from demolition before the placard timer existed, but it wasn't the first house I tried to get. For over a year I saw only four houses available for purchase. The fourth house is the one I got.
For the first three I witnessed them either change their icon to a purchased plot on the map or saw someone who got to the placard seconds before I did and get the house. It felt horrible. It felt hopeless. It was so rare to even see a plot for sale and I was never the first person to reach the plot. Not even the time I got my house was I the first person to reach the plot. Someone else was already standing at the placard when the house came in view but they must not have had enough gil and/or were waiting for someone who had. The nearest aetheryte is quite far from the plot (plot 60 Lavender Beds) so they had plenty of time to buy it before I could even get there. I took my chances, clicked on the placard and got the house. I couldn't believe my luck.
The placard timer sucks but the above is not better. I think both situations are as bad as each other just bad in different ways.
With the timer you're far more likely to see open plots but you could spend hours camping it with a lot of competition around you. Without the timer the plot can be purchased so fast you wouldn't even have gotten the chance to even see it in the house listings before it was bought. Both situations are horrible. The era before the placard timer isn't the wonderful thing you think it is, and the placard timer isn't any better.
The absence or presence of a timer doesn't make it easier to get a house. You know what does? More houses. The more houses there are the less competition there will be. Removing or having a timer doesn't solve availability issues because these do not create more houses.
Last edited by Penthea; 10-16-2020 at 06:49 AM.
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