Idea for housing system

[Bright-Flower]

Literally anything is better than a RNG lottery imo.

Hard disagree. I think that being able to pay into a lottery and then get your gil back if you lose is infintiely better than competing against click bots for random timers.

Yes, rng is rng and it can suck, but on the other hand, it's more fair than the clickbot situation we have now, and less time consuming if you want to be doing other things in the game beyond standing next to a placard waiting.

[Vahlnir]

Hard disagree. I think that being able to pay into a lottery and then get your gil back if you lose is infintiely better than competing against click bots for random timers.

Yes, rng is rng and it can suck, but on the other hand, it's more fair than the clickbot situation we have now, and less time consuming if you want to be doing other things in the game beyond standing next to a placard waiting.

They are replacing one bad system with another bad system. Two wrongs don't make a right, and neither are beneficial to the player base. Anyone who thinks a lottery is better is naive.

[Bright-Flower]

They are replacing one bad system with another bad system. Two wrongs don't make a right, and neither are beneficial to the player base. Anyone who thinks a lottery is better is naive.

It's not a perfect system, but both systems having flaws doesn't mean they're equally bad.

[Seer7]

Hard disagree. I think that being able to pay into a lottery and then get your gil back if you lose is infintiely better than competing against click bots for random timers.

Yes, rng is rng and it can suck, but on the other hand, it's more fair than the clickbot situation we have now, and less time consuming if you want to be doing other things in the game beyond standing next to a placard waiting.

But why don't just make a system like what I talk about at the beginning? if we are talking about a fair way to buy a house queuing is going to be the fairest way, people may think that is too many players want a house so is almost impossible to queue until you, but the same thing happens in lottery system or what the situation right now, some people might say lottery system is fair to people who come late, but what about those who already wish to buy a house for a very long time, it's not fair to them at all isn't?

[Jadedsins]

I know about the lottery system, just wonder if there is another better solution, because I don't really think the lottery system is the best solution for this, but we'll see.

The best would be buy a whole bunch of new servers and figure out a way to have so much server space for Housing that anyone can get a house if they wanted it.

That is the best solution well I think so anyway. lol

[Absurdity]

You people seem to forget something. They're not replacing one system with another, they're running both systems. You get housing wards that keep the current "first come first serve" system and then you get housing wards that have the lottery system.

[ReynTime]

Nah lottery is better.

What is that people LOVE to say in this community? "FFXIV respects your time"?

The lottery definitely respects your time better than a stupid placard spam system.
Unless of course you're a bot user, and definitely don't want to lose the advantage you currently have.

[KayRadley]

We have a housing forum. Please keep discussions like this quarantined there.

[Jadedsins]

I'm so glad they added RNG. Like I saw a house on sell and like a ton of people was just standing around clicking it over and over. Husband told me about how the system worked and I LOL so hard. At least it being random, I don't got to waste my time. Or do like some of these people do. Use a bot.