Plots everywhere demolished and open!

[SturmChurro]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

[Nabiri]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

Not necessarily. Some people just stand there clicking for hours while watching youtube/netflix. XD

[Wrestlefire769]

Not necessarily. Some people just stand there clicking for hours while watching youtube/netflix. XD

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

[gilmorej]

Is it a bot when I see these people looking up and down at the board every few seconds?

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

I have done Housing Savage twice, in person, for hours. It's really not hard to do it on kind of semi-conscious auto-pilot while you are watching something else....

0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0 ... over and over. You can go pretty fast. Your character will be nodding like they've got some sort of condition.

Players around me probably thought I was a bot.. but I was not.

In truth, there's not really any way you could tell if a person was botting or not.. The behavior would look the same whether they are or aren't. Since it just boils down to repeatedly pressing a series of keys over and over, you could even program your keyboard to do it, if your keyboard is fancy enough.

[Seraphor]

you could even program your keyboard to do it

That's a bot.

[Wrestlefire769]

That's a bot.

Exactly. Because that's exactly what the scripts are doing.

[Nabiri]

I'd really like to know if there are any live people out there doing this. There can't be that many.

I was one of them. 9 Hours for the first try. I didn't get the house.
7 hours for the second try. I didn't get the house.
10+ hours for the third try. I got the house.

Of course I would step away for an anxious moment to get food, drink, and take bathroom breaks, before rushing back. In that time my character was unmoving.
But I was pretty stubborn/determined. And I'm not super opposed to repetitive activities. I just watched movies at the same time to keep me awake.

Edit: I will say that my hand was pretty sore (arthritis acting up) at the end of each of these nights though.. XD
But wrecking our health is what it takes to get a house in this game, and having one was that important to my happiness within the game.

[SturmChurro]

I was one of them. 9 Hours for the first try. I didn't get the house.
7 hours for the second try. I didn't get the house.
10+ hours for the third try. I got the house.

Of course I would step away for an anxious moment to get food, drink, and take bathroom breaks, before rushing back. In that time my character was unmoving.
But I was pretty stubborn/determined. And I'm not super opposed to repetitive activities. I just watched movies at the same time to keep me awake.

Edit: I will say that my hand was pretty sore (arthritis acting up) at the end of each of these nights though.. XD
But wrecking our health is what it takes to get a house in this game, and having one was that important to my happiness within the game.

Jesus. Hope you got an actual desirable plot for all that time. I don't even have arthritis (in my mid-20's), but after probably around 12 hours total of clicking, I could really feel it..

[Nabiri]

Jesus. Hope you got an actual desirable plot for all that time. I don't even have arthritis (in my mid-20's), but after probably around 12 hours total of clicking, I could really feel it..

Haha.. Thanks, but it was a piece of junk facing a wall in Ul'dah. I've since moved though.
Was just happy to be able to decorate and have a garden!

(X3 In my 30s, but have an old injury in that hand - turned into arthritis. D: )

[SturmChurro]

Haha.. Thanks, but it was a piece of junk facing a wall in Ul'dah. I've since moved though.
Was just happy to be able to decorate and have a garden!

(X3 In my 30s, but have an old injury in that hand - turned into arthritis. D: )

I think I know which plot you mean. You got lucky on that relocation. I've been checking housing every so often, it's literally ALL gone here. I can't relocate anywhere.

That's too bad, but now that you have that house you probably won't ever have to click like that again. Even if they don't fix, or alleviate the issue of housing.