House Raffling

[Catstab]

if we have one person enter 8 raffles, they would need enough gil to cover 8 houses as each raffle ticket is the full purchase price of the house... So while what you're talking about would be doable under this system, it's going to take a pretty hefty amount of gil.

A small house is 3,000,000 gil. So someone who wanted to enter 8 FCs into the raffle would need 24,000,000 gil, or at most 30,000,000 if we are talking a grade 1 plot. Let's be honest, 24-30 million is not 'a hefty amount,' it's a few weeks of earning.

I think this suggestion puts way too much influence in the hands of people who have multiple characters, multiple accounts, and multiple millions of gil. Someone who plays a single character on a standard account would suffer a significantly reduced chance of ever getting a house as compared to today's system.

I agree that the hidden timer and camping is a dreadful system. I dedicate hours of my time on a regular basis to educating campers to help them past it. But a housing lottery/raffle will only cause more problems. It's been suggested a million times, and the potential exploits have been highlighted a million times.

[Almagnus1]

A small house is 3,000,000 gil. So someone who wanted to enter 8 FCs into the raffle would need 24,000,000 gil, or at most 30,000,000 if we are talking a grade 1 plot. Let's be honest, 24-30 million is not 'a hefty amount,' it's a few weeks of earning.

I think this suggestion puts way too much influence in the hands of people who have multiple characters, multiple accounts, and multiple millions of gil. Someone who plays a single character on a standard account would suffer a significantly reduced chance of ever getting a house as compared to today's system.

That also highlights the problems with shell FCs... which is why I would like to see housing for FCs tied to active subscriptions. That's kinda the thing with housing it's not just one issue that's causing the problem, it's a giant pile of issues that are loosely interconnected that are difficult to untangle into a small issue to be rid of.