Such devastation... this was NOT my intention...

[RitsukoSonoda]

Was this lottery system specifically for the new housing area in Ishgard being added? I don't actually recall anything implying it would be on the existing areas and wards.

[Brightamethyst]

Was this lottery system specifically for the new housing area in Ishgard being added? I don't actually recall anything implying it would be on the existing areas and wards.

It's unclear at the moment. They mentioned having the ability to toggle lottery vs first come first served on a per-ward basis and were planning to watch the market throughout 6.0 to get a feel for how they should proceed.

[lezard21]

A botter could still create a couple dozen alts that each put in their bid for the house, use that house as a FC house, then sell the FC.

Haven't thought about this. Yep, RIP housing in 6.1. It gonna get destroyed by botters and RMT sellers. I'd like to hope that Yoshi-P and the devs check the forums so we can avoid this potential disaster.

[Moonlite]

Haven't thought about this. Yep, RIP housing in 6.1. It gonna get destroyed by botters and RMT sellers. I'd like to hope that Yoshi-P and the devs check the forums so we can avoid this potential disaster.

They have new anti FC trading measures. If they work we will see. Cheaters are always smarter than devs no matter what game it is. Also didn't they say only one bid per account per data centre? They would have to have dozens of paid accounts. Other wise the max amount of bids they could place at a time would be what 9?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

They have new anti FC trading measures. If they work we will see. Cheaters are always smarter than devs no matter what game it is. Also didn't they say only one bid per account per data centre? They would have to have dozens of paid accounts. Other wise the max amount of bids they could place at a time would be what 9?

Well, we already have botters who participate on the forums. They have a ton of accounts. Wouldnt put it past housing rmters to do this too.

Just scalpers being scalpers.

[Moonlite]

Well, we already have botters who participate on the forums. They have a ton of accounts. Wouldnt put it past housing rmters to do this too.

Just scalpers being scalpers.

What is funny with the sad amount of houses out there they could literally have a housing GM sell them. They can never get rid of bots. But a little more hands on over site wouldn't hurt. And it is so weird in 11 GMs regularly checked and handled all sorts of problems and didnt hide behind the task force.