Thread: Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

Originally Posted by Jojoya

If you're worried about repetitive motion injuries, why are you playing a MMO? Pressing buttons for a placard is no more stressful than pressing buttons for combat or pressing buttons to chat. We're always pressing buttons while we're playing. Placard camping is just a more boring choice of activity. If you're thinking about the length of time you spend doing it, nothing is stopping you from taking a break.

While I'll agree about pressing buttons and taking regular breaks(which we all should considering how long people can be at the computer at a given time of day or night), I think one of the things he's getting at is not just the motion injuries, but rather the question of "Does this count as proper gameplay?" The answer to that is no, because it isn't engaging and only results as an egregious system that is particularly bad in regards to Housing as a whole. That's why they came up with the lottery system in the first place so that Housing isn't as harshly gated behind the servers trying to take your input(which gets clogged up with all the placard macro clickers using third party software for this alone, bots included) so you can obtain the plot. We've seen it plenty enough that when hundreds of people are trying to get into a particular instance at the same time(i.e. Raubahn EX and Pipin Savage from the days of Stormblood Launch) that it makes it difficult for the server to accept, akin to a Denial of Service attack.

If people want their house, then they can either wait for it or during current days for FCFS simply play Placard Clicker Simulator for hours on end.

Originally Posted by Jojoya

Hopefully SE has either thought to add lottery entries with plot numbers to Estate Timers or will be able to do so because I can definitely see some players forgetting the ward and plot number.

I love your optimism almost as much as I am certain it is unfounded lol!

You're bang on about 4.2 being the golden days of housing though, those were truly the good old days, fondly remembered and never to be revisited it seems.

The only good thing that will come out of this lottery system is the entertainment the forums and reddit will provide in the wake of its implementation.

See you all at the popcorn vendor in a couple of weeks!

Originally Posted by LunaFancy

I love your optimism almost as much as I am certain it is unfounded lol!

You're bang on about 4.2 being the golden days of housing though, those were truly the good old days, fondly remembered and never to be revisited it seems.

The only good thing that will come out of this lottery system is the entertainment the forums and reddit will provide in the wake of its implementation.

See you all at the popcorn vendor in a couple of weeks!

Except they did it! They posted a screenshot of the lottery information shown on the Estate Timers in the news post.

I have no doubt there will be plenty of complaints once Empyreum sells out and the newness of the system wears off. Still, most players will be better off than they are under the current system even if serious flaws remain.

FCFS with the timer heavily favours spamming bots and it's unfair to players who want to abide by the ToS and not use a third-party program, and all players not playing on the PC.
Without the timer, players with work and real-life issues don't stand a chance because houses will be all gone after the maintenance.
FCFS has no advantages and lottery is the only way forward.

FCFS favored massively unhealthy length of signboard clicking/macroing.

Lottery is far more preferable.

Originally Posted by Sarevok_Thordin

FCFS favored massively unhealthy length of signboard clicking/macroing.

Lottery is far more preferable.

Do you know what FCFS actually details? You get to the house first, you click the sign once and the property is yours! There is no “unhealthy clicking/macroing”. Troll some more.

For those players who wanted the lottery, you got it! I give it a few weeks before you guys are crying as the amount of available housing goes down and the amount of people getting into the lottery goes up!

Originally Posted by Fenril7

Do you know what FCFS actually details? You get to the house first, you click the sign once and the property is yours! There is no “unhealthy clicking/macroing”. Troll some more.

For those players who wanted the lottery, you got it! I give it a few weeks before you guys are crying as the amount of available housing goes down and the amount of people getting into the lottery goes up!

Yeah, I've given up even trying to explain this, just kick back and pre-make your popcorn for the aftermath. I am just sad that they decided to screw and entire new data centre over with this idiocy.

I'm hoping my decision to move to the lowest pop world and waiting til the last minute serves me well enough to get my FC a house with my alt and myself my old large back on my main.

Can't wait for the penny to drop when all the lottery fans finally realise that the shell FCs they are so terrified of were the ones who benefitted from implementing this on a new data centre and the only people shut out of housing were FC leaders who didn't have alts.

My guess is there will be homeless FCs when the dust settles because people wanted their personals and didn't have alternatives to proxy bid with.

They never even alluded to the entirety of Materia being lottery. Even when they started muttering about the possibility they teased us with partial FCFS and partial lottery.

And why on earth would there be people who don't want houses in anyone's FC? Do you understand that not a single soul on the data centre has had the ability to purchase a plot until now? God even people who have never wanted it before are going to be lotting on OCE to 'try their luck'. .

I give up, I swear it's like banging my head against a brick wall trying to explain that the situation on Materia is not like the situation on every other data centre.