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

[Lunaaritimi]

I am also adding my support for 50/50 FCFS and Lottery for all of the wards. I moved to Materia and left my house on Elemental, so I'd be pretty upset if I missed out because of a pure lottery system.

[Zenaiz]

+1 (Non-Ishgard) FCFS on Materia DC.

SE please give us the option to purchase houses on a FCFS basis, like on other populated worlds upon initial release of their residential wards. We want to have the ability to choose our own plots and not to have that option taken away from us. This option was granted to other players, and we wanted to be treated in the same manner.

[Elyah]

+1 showing support as a player that moved permanently to Materia for some FCFS housing in existing wards and not 100% lottery. Even 25% of existing housing as FCFS would be nice for those of us that know exactly what we want and have the resources to move the furniture market/spend gil/invest in gardening to make rare items more readily available (all of which sorely needed on this DC right now). An additional week of uncertainty in waiting for lottery, and then losing out houses to people that don't have the ability to participate in all these activities as actively is going to hurt the economy of Materia moreso.

[Meowsalotte]

Just gonna bump this and hope that they comment on this in the Live Letter part 2. Materia really wants a response from the team about this!

[Emet-Wigglingway]

Nope. 100% lottery, please.

[Kyosa]

Another vote for SOME FCFS wards, just so we have a fair chance at running in to get something. I hate that we had to give up our housing to transfer, wait so long without housing and now we're slapped in the face with a MAYBE lottery win...

[LunaFancy]

I am wondering if the issue with all wards being lottery on OCE is stemming from opening the old wards at the same time as Ishgard and therefore the change in the housing system?

If the problem lies in the coding and separating out one data centre from the rest in terms of implementation of the 6.1 patch, then surely it would make more sense to simply release the old wards a week or two ahead of 6.1 under the current system?

Perhaps we, the OCE data centre players affected, can get together and brainstorm a way in which to make this suggestion to the devs while we still have time?

Does anyone have suggestions?

[DeNada]

It's too late, though there will be plenty of houses though, probably more houses than players actually.

Anyone who wants a house on Materia and is not picky will definitely get one, unless you are trying for one of those unicorn plots which well, I wish you good luck.

[Shibi]

It's too late, though there will be plenty of houses though, probably more houses than players actually.

I actually don't think so. There are a lot of people on Materia, and a census of "4 person, rank 6 FCs, where the FC leader is level 1" is surprisingly large. The gil sellers have been very busy preparing to get their stock.

I think quite a few of the poor souls on Sophia especially will be missing out.

[Jojoya]

a census of "4 person, rank 6 FCs, where the FC leader is level 1" is surprisingly large.

It's not a surprise at all. RMT knows a prime opportunity to get in and control a significant part of the market. They will be jumping on everything in any FCFS wards hard before moving to lottery entries with the characters that didn't manage to pick up something in FCFS.

I doubt it will be limited to just FC houses, either. This would be the perfect time for RMT to start selling service accounts with a personal house attached considering the number of new players starting the game. There are bound to be curious people happy to pay to bypass both early leveling and the headache of trying to get a house. They'll have the level 50 Fantasia to race/gender change to their liking, can pick up any of the jobs they want to play if the original isn't to their liking, and have NG+ if they want to experience the ARR MSQ after all.