Fix Housing Megathread

[Valfreyja]

Sitting with a friend last night who had been trying to get a house plot for 12 hours+. We discussed several options that are better than the current system.

It was down to three people wanting it. The BS part of it was that one of them got their FC to show up and start trying to buy it. I assume so they could pass it off as a "tenant" thing and give them better odds. Which just seems wrong to me in so many ways.

We talked about options in my FC for this.

First, make it a silent auction. A house comes up for sale, you make a bid. One bid per service account per plot. First highest bidder gets the plot. Sure people with more gil get an advantage. But it comes down to whether they are willing to bid 10 or 20 million gil to get a small housing plot.

The second option was presented by someone in my FC. That being putting it to RNG. The house comes up for sale. Every 18 hours a player can walk up and use the Placard. If the RNG hits, and they have the gil to make the purchase, they get the opportunity to buy it. If not, they have to wait 18 hours for another chance at it.

The current system just fosters animosity between players and encourages harsh feelings when players gang up to all bid on a plot in order to give it to their friend. Or stand around the placard to try and throw off targeting on it.

Edit: As an update, my friend lost the house. The one who got her FC to come and all bid on it for her got it. So one of her friends owns it and now she's a "tenant". Which is honestly the sh******t way of doing this.

The tenant system needs to be changed to prevent stuff like this.