Getting Housing is a Problem

[alpacaurbags]

This is beyond true. The 'no timer' houses lasted 30-60 minutes on most servers. So if "when you got up in the morning" was not 6am eastern when the servers came online, you were not motivated enough to skip the timer. There were houses open for the entirety of the day, but they were houses that needed to be camped. By 8pm eastern, only half of the houses with timers were gone. To have "All houses gone" by the time you got on means you didn't log on at all on 10/13.

We did not expect the demand to be as bad as it was. We got on at 8 and all housing was gone, don't know what to tell you. We checked, assume what you want about the situation.

[Greyhawk]

We did not expect the demand to be as bad as it was. We got on at 8 and all housing was gone, don't know what to tell you. We checked, assume what you want about the situation.

How could you not? Housing has been the hottest topic around for years - one of the biggest gripes of not enough housing. You literally have to have the game patched, ready to hit 'Play' the moment it comes up and get in queue to be able to even have a chance at getting a house right now (if servers are brought down for patch/maintenance/etc.). You'd probably have to be logged out where you want to buy in order to get it - that was the only way I finally got mine. I hit 'Purchase Land' just as the steamrolling stampede of Shirogane was rolling to my house. I've also literally camped a house for over 12 hours for my wife (we took shifts), just to get her a small house. Housing is like Black Friday for the first time, every day.

[Catstab]

We got on at 8 and all housing was gone

That's totally impossible.

Timers last a minimum of 8 hours on relocated houses. Many of the new 720 houses were relocated to. That means that the houses those players relocated from were open and on timers until at least 4 pm eastern time, 8 hours after the server came up, in the original wards 1-21.

[Shibi]

Sadly, it is how it is, and it won't change in the near future. So like grinding raid progression you need to get in there and just do it.

We did not expect the demand to be as bad as it was.

For weeks and weeks anyone who was placard clicking had known demand would be huge.

We got on at 8 and all housing was gone

The housing discords had spreadsheets that tracked the vacant properties, and those show you were wrong. And this is the thing... Most housing becomes available around 12.5 hours from the point it's vacant, 10 to 14 hours being the prime window. This means you could have come on - with your FC members - at 6pm your time and likely taken a property.

Best advice I can give is; join the housing sweep discord plus rope in your FC members to look three or four times each day, turn up to a placard around the 12 hour mark with as many FC people as you can and get to clicking for 30 to 45 minutes. The more FC members you can get clicking the greater your chance.

[Catstab]

The housing discords had spreadsheets that tracked the vacant properties, and those show you were wrong. And this is the thing... Most housing becomes available around 12.5 hours from the point it's vacant, 10 to 14 hours being the prime window. This means you could have come on - with your FC members - at 6pm your time and likely taken a property.

Best advice I can give is; join the housing sweep discord plus rope in your FC members to look three or four times each day, turn up to a placard around the 12 hour mark with as many FC people as you can and get to clicking for 30 to 45 minutes. The more FC members you can get clicking the greater your chance.

With respect, OP did amend her statement when pressed to 'all houses with no timers were gone by the time I woke up' as she was not interested in placard clicking. So while you are correct, this is covered in previous pages of the thread. Appreciate you lending some advice, too. I also supplied my reddit thread with new ward tips and general camping tips. Hopefully something helps her out!