<MATERIA> First-Come First-Served AND Lottery Plots

[Taitaibun]

So...you want to return to a system that heavily favors botters and RMT gold sellers because the new system may favor botters and gold sellers

They've done what they can by combatting it with the removal of instant relocation and the incoming free company changes. Lottery will still allow this behavior seeing as those people can also access this system. The changes to relocation and free companies are to deter those acts.
We want to return to this system so the active player base of Materia may enjoy their free company content, gardening content, private roleplay etc etc.

[Shibi]

We want to return to this system so the active player base of Materia may enjoy their free company content, gardening content, private roleplay etc etc.

Onions wold be nice. Right now it's a case of relying on that one person who brings over hundreds of onions every three days. I wonder how many hundreds of millions of gil they have made? It would have to be a lot.

(Aether being locked for new characters means I have 1 mule left, and I don't want to use him up yet to do the same)

Until then - have a level 3 alt on another data centre... buy up cheap onions and mule them over please you make good profit and my Choco can level more.

heh.

[Damptoe]

I wonder if there are any naysayers that are actually in OCE. Would probably be more constructive.

[LunaFancy]

A further issue with the lottery exclusive model on Materia is the one ticket per player concept.

I am hoping this is a translation error because it seems incredibly unfair to open all the housing on a world in one go and not allow a player to bit on a personal and an FC house. They can't be serious about this? So I can bid on a place for my 40+ member FC OR I can get a ticket in hopes of replacing the house I lost when I moved, but not both?

Why?

[Taitaibun]

Onions wold be nice. Right now it's a case of relying on that one person who brings over hundreds of onions every three days. I wonder how many hundreds of millions of gil they have made? It would have to be a lot.

(Aether being locked for new characters means I have 1 mule left, and I don't want to use him up yet to do the same)

Until then - have a level 3 alt on another data centre... buy up cheap onions and mule them over please you make good profit and my Choco can level more.

heh.

I mean give me the gil on another server and I'll do it? None of my alts really have gil or anything, I only play my main which is on Bismarck. Oooor wait until 6.1 for your onions. I'd offer to buy onions for you but I'm keeping my housing hoard fund.

[Shibi]

I mean give me the gil on another server and I'll do it? None of my alts really have gil or anything, I only play my main which is on Bismarck. Oooor wait until 6.1 for your onions. I'd offer to buy onions for you but I'm keeping my housing hoard fund.

Or release the old cities now. And we can get started.

[Divinemights]

They definitely is not going to release Materia wards until 6.1 and go live with lottery system. This is their only way to prevent/reduce the possibility of RMT obtaining plots.

RMR will not be able to use leaks of current system to their own advantage. They will need to go through lottery system like normal players

[Taitaibun]

They definitely is not going to release Materia wards until 6.1 and go live with lottery system. This is their only way to prevent/reduce the possibility of RMT obtaining plots.

RMR will not be able to use leaks of current system to their own advantage. They will need to go through lottery system like normal players

I don't really get what you mean with leaks. Currently everyone has to click for a house for hours, days, weeks, if not months to even get one. It's all random, just depends on who clicks buy first after the hidden timer goes off.
Plus if you're in a house/fc sales communities they don't allow RMT, so that eliminates that chance.

[Jojoya]

I did think of a way that SE could initially roll out wards on a FCFS basis while retaining some measure of fairness - stagger the release of the wards (assuming that is possible with their programming).

Example: if servers come up at 3am, ward 1 + subdivision become available immediately. Ward 2 + subdivision would be available at 5am. Ward 3+ subdivsion available at 7am, etc.

It staggers the opening the wards so those not able to be online when the servers come up from maintenance would at least have some small choice of wards at a time they can get online.

Then once everything is sold out or after a preset period (which ever comes first), change wards to lottery. That way there's no massive waiting period for getting a house but there's also no unfair advantage to those who are able to get online at a single specific time.

They definitely is not going to release Materia wards until 6.1 and go live with lottery system. This is their only way to prevent/reduce the possibility of RMT obtaining plots.

RMR will not be able to use leaks of current system to their own advantage. They will need to go through lottery system like normal players

There's no way to prevent RMT from getting into the system unless they ditch the wards and go full instanced, or they remove FC housing. As long as players have some way to transfer control of a housing location, RMT will exist when the supply is smaller than the demand.

I don't really get what you mean with leaks. Currently everyone has to click for a house for hours, days, weeks, if not months to even get one. It's all random, just depends on who clicks buy first after the hidden timer goes off.
Plus if you're in a house/fc sales communities they don't allow RMT, so that eliminates that chance.

Why people use script bots to do the clicking - they can go do other things on a different account or outside of the game.

Those communities have no way to prevent RMT. Additional arrangements can able be made outside of their specific discords with no one the wiser as long as no one says anything. They can't police member behavior outside of the discord.

[Shibi]

I did think of a way that SE could initially roll out wards on a FCFS basis while retaining some measure of fairness - stagger the release of the wards (assuming that is possible with their programming)..

Stagger opening was one of the first things I thought of for Materia old cities, but it's likely not going to work as they seem to need to always need to bring down the servers.

Plus of course, the vast bulk of Materia players who will be after housing don't have the housing quests done yet (they are locked). Those need to be collected and then travel and go in from the overland to enter the wards and buy. Staggered wards through opening, mean it's possible the ward could be full and people can't enter to complete the quest.

My thought after, for people stuck in the queue, and people playing from NA, where a release is likely to be 3am or so, was how it could be nice if they can set all houses placard timers to an exact time, but stagger them, rather than staggering opening up the wards.

All wards open (so the housing quests can be done 4 times over) but Ward 1 opens up as fcfs immediately... Ward 2's placards are open and clickable, but will be purchasable from hour 1... Ward 3's placards are open and clickable, but will be purchasable from hour 2... up to ward x-y are going to be half lotto solo and lotto fc.

Or do it over 12 hours, with 2 wards popping open each time.