Quote Originally Posted by wei_t_a_minute View Post
RMT house sellers can easily put in multiple lottery entries for their "free company" and significantly outbid real FCs, since they already have multiple accounts and characters, plus a plethora of gil.

If the proposed changes allow FCs to increase their chances of winning the lottery solely by the number of lottery tickets and do not address any other aspect of FC house buying/ownership, the house buying process will be more difficult for legitimate FC owners and will not change the current RMT issue that is rampant in FF14 housing.

Other changes involving increasing the requirements for purchasing a house for an FC are needed. Examples include establishing a minimum player level, not allowing level and job boosted characters buy until a certain play time has reached, etc.
It's not a bid system. It's a raffle system. Having more entries doesn't "outbid" other FCs though it does shift the chance of winning depending on how many total entries there are. Having 10 entries out of 20 would be a significant advantage but having 10 out of 200 won't.

This system will actually work better for medium to large FCs that can have multiple members entering on the FC's behalf for the same plot. The RMT FCs usually only have the minimum 4 members. The house buying process becomes significantly easier for legitimate FCs because members no longer need to camp a placard against the click bots. As long as the FC isn't going after a medium or large, most members should have sufficient gil to buy an entry then get reimbursed after the drawing (by the game if the entry doesn't win, by the FC if the entry is the winner).

They are adding a waiting period before new members can be granted land acquisition permissions or given FC Master rank. That will serve equally as well as what you mention.

In the end, the only thing that will address the rampant RMT in housing is to either remove FC housing or go to a fully instanced system where every player and every FC can get a house just by telling the game "I want to buy". As long as it's a limited resource system with the ability to transfer ownership player to player, RMT will always exist.