Fix Housing Megathread

[Jojoya]

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.

Silent auction still doesn't solve the supply problem and encourages RMT by players desperate enough to get a house they're willing to pay any price. It could potentially give house flippers more control over the highly desirable plot locations. Wouldn't it be better to solve the supply problem?

The suggestion by your FC member is what players should already be doing. Check the placard. See if you get lucky. Go do other things and try again later if you aren't. If you can only check it once every 18 hours, kiss your chances of getting the house goodbye because someone else will have gotten it before you can check a second time.

If anyone is feeling animosity toward other players over not getting a house, that's a personal anger issue they need to learn to manage. It's a game. Feeling frustrated and disappointed because of a poorly implemented game system is normal. Feeling hatred toward other people, especially those who have nothing to do with creation and implementation of the system, is not.

You aren't paying attention.

The unfair advantage lies in 10 or 15 FC people showing up to buy a plot. Not to legitimately share it. But to just give one of their friends "Tenant" rights, and let the friend own it and do whatever they want.

You act like the one who purchased the plot was actually going to use it. And that's not the case. They only did it to give it to their FC friend to use.

There is no unfair advantage.

About 2 months ago, a house near mine became available. There were 11 players camping the placard with 9 of those players representing 2 different FCs. Who got the house? One of the two solo players camping it (which I was glad to see because that player had been camping for at least an hour before the rest started showing up).

Someone in my FC was competing for a house a couple of weeks ago against 4 other players all from the same FC. Who got the house? The one in my FC. I'm sure the players from the other FC were bitching that she got the house even though they had more people camping the placard.

There is no unfair advantage when it all comes down to RNG. You still have to be the player clicking at the right moment.

As for the house that your friend didn't get, the owner will have to use it at times or the house will demo. Tenant entry does not reset the demo timer. The player who bought it can't just give it to their friend then forget about it.

It will also be actively getting used by other players who haven't gotten lucky enough to purchase their own.

I'm not seeing a problem with that.

The system definitely could stand improvement but that particular complaint you're making is just sour grapes because someone else got lucky instead of your friend.