Thread: Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

I still don't see any problems for Materia given the extremely low number of current active player there.

Anyone who just want a house WILL get a house provided they aren't fussy and go for unicorn plots.

I think someone looked up the numbers and even on Ravana which is the most populous Materia server, there are only about 1K free companies, and that's not discounting those which are ineligible for housing at 6.1 due to being new or not rank 6.

Just to put things in perspective, there are going to be 7k new plots per server and from what Yoshi-P alluded in the latest live letter, they will be allocating more plots for FCs so at least half or 3.5k plots will be available for FCs alone.

Simply put, empty wards are going to be more of an issue then players not being able to secure a house.

As I have said, if you are going for highly desired plots which include any large or medium, be prepared to face competition.

Even so, given that most characters on Materia are new or alts, I would think very few of them has the resources to bid for a medium or large plot so the competition will naturally be low.

You certainly don't expect to be ensured a medium or large simply because you want it. In established servers, even a small plot would have dozens of players camping (bear in mind I'm not even talking about lottery here where the number of bidders would be even more), so why should one expect a medium/large just because you want it?

I thought the OP was to voice support of FCFS as a feedback, not the opposite? If you don't agree, just make your own post to voice feedback for the opposite? I for one am heavily for FCFS system on at least SOME wards. And totally against ALL lottery. Im sure SE wanted lottery from the get-go and only gave us false hope for FCFS in the weeks running up to producer letter to minimize the blow-back from the community in favor of FCFS. Yes, we would change our sleep patterns, and cut every corner to get the plot and as for the people who made some questionable choices in their lives to be in position when they cannot set aside a specific time-frame (probably not more than 10-20mins) known weeks ahead due to job commitments and such, well, you will still have the chance to enter the lottery, isn't it. I think lottery really sucks, and even more so on Materia, where ALL housing will open all at once (that's some 7500-ish houses per world)

Wasn't there someone who bought up 2 whole wards in Spriggan or Twintannia when they were new?

It would be disastrous to lock down personal housing again for new servers as more and more ppl would resort to shell FCs, which defeats the purpose of delaying personal housing in the first place and allow unscrupulous players to accumulate obscene number of houses for personal use, to the detriment of the remainder of the player base.

Originally Posted by DeNada

Wasn't there someone who bought up 2 whole wards in Spriggan or Twintannia when they were new?

Yes and the delay of personal housing sales for months only enabled these people to do what they did. I have a couple characters on Spriggan and got my FC house there and the houses in that ward sat open for months and months so much so that i was able to buy a personal right next to my FC in Shirogane on the beach when they finally opened personals for sale.

Have no clue how the housing will play out on Materia but on Spriggan and Twintania housing wards were empty for the longest time.

Originally Posted by LaylaTsarra

Yes and the delay of personal housing sales for months only enabled these people to do what they did. I have a couple characters on Spriggan and got my FC house there and the houses in that ward sat open for months and months so much so that i was able to buy a personal right next to my FC in Shirogane on the beach when they finally opened personals for sale.

Have no clue how the housing will play out on Materia but on Spriggan and Twintania housing wards were empty for the longest time.

Materia will also be operating under the new system where some wards are FC and others are personal. That's going to help things fill faster.

I'm still very concerned about YoshiP's comment during the Live Letter that there will be more FC wards than personal wards. If he was just referring to Empyreum, I get it even if I still don't agree. They want to make certain any FCs ready to buy can get a house because of FC content that requires a house to access. If he was referring to all housing districts, ouch.

The demand for FC housing (at least by genuine FCs) just is not that high. If it was, we wouldn't have seen new wards in the past remain mostly empty until the personal moratorium was lifted. I remember doing a census back in 2019 a few weeks before 5.1 was released and seeing all the empty plots still left on Spriggan and Twintania (not to mention the wards that were being filled up by the shells FCs).

Hopefully the weighting toward FCs will only last the first 4 lottery periods, and we'll see some FC wards switched to personal after that (when 6.15 would release if it's the usual 6-7 weeks we've seen in the past). It's demoralizing when there are plots sitting vacant and there are players are ready to buy but can't because SE has locked access to FCs that have already purchased a house if they want Certainly SE should keep some wards reserved for FCs at all times but when FCs are historically about 30% of the house owners, it should be 30% of wards.

Originally Posted by Jojoya

Materia will also be operating under the new system where some wards are FC and others are personal. That's going to help things fill faster.

I'm still very concerned about YoshiP's comment during the Live Letter that there will be more FC wards than personal wards. If he was just referring to Empyreum, I get it even if I still don't agree. They want to make certain any FCs ready to buy can get a house because of FC content that requires a house to access. If he was referring to all housing districts, ouch.

The demand for FC housing (at least by genuine FCs) just is not that high. If it was, we wouldn't have seen new wards in the past remain mostly empty until the personal moratorium was lifted. I remember doing a census back in 2019 a few weeks before 5.1 was released and seeing all the empty plots still left on Spriggan and Twintania (not to mention the wards that were being filled up by the shells FCs).

Hopefully the weighting toward FCs will only last the first 4 lottery periods, and we'll see some FC wards switched to personal after that (when 6.15 would release if it's the usual 6-7 weeks we've seen in the past). It's demoralizing when there are plots sitting vacant and there are players are ready to buy but can't because SE has locked access to FCs that have already purchased a house if they want Certainly SE should keep some wards reserved for FCs at all times but when FCs are historically about 30% of the house owners, it should be 30% of wards.

Are FC and Personal plots going to be separated by ward or on an individual plot level? I have seen no information that would clearly indicate one vs the other. If you have that information, can you tell me where it is?

Originally Posted by Eraden

Are FC and Personal plots going to be separated by ward or on an individual plot level? I have seen no information that would clearly indicate one vs the other. If you have that information, can you tell me where it is?

It's what we were told back in November. Wards would be set to either FC or personal, and they will be able to change the ward type during patch maintenances if needed.

Do you honestly think SE is going to go through each and every one of the 518,400 plots that will be in the game come April 12th to decide what type of plot each should be? Do you have any idea how many man hours that would take?

No thanks. As someone who went through 2 housing savages so far just to be able to buy 2 small homes (fc and own), i cant wait for the fricking current systems to be removed from the game.

Lottery is fair, random is fair and i am all for equality between everyone ( those who can play 18 hours a day or those who can only play 2 hours a week ).