Housing failure... Again, and a few other comments

[Bsrking5]

I was kinda surprised they let you make lotto bids on alts, too. Glad I leveled 8 characters.

It does? I thought you could only do one per service account. Im 100% sure i seen someone already said that.

[hydralus]

It does? I thought you could only do one per service account. Im 100% sure i seen someone already said that.

It let me put a ticket in the lottery for every alt so either it's not working as intended or there was some confusion.

[Krotoan]

It let me put a ticket in the lottery for every alt so either it's not working as intended or there was some confusion.

Was this for an FC house? does your FC already have a house?



Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

Edit:
Just tried placing one more bid for another plot and got: "You may only submit one lottery entry per lottery period."
Even tried placing that extra bid from my second character and got: "No more land may be purchased on this world by characters attached to this service account" error. But thats for FC and we already have a house and simply try to relocate. May be it's only possible for those who don't own a house whatsoever?

[hydralus]

Was this for an FC house? does your FC already have a house?



Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

No it's for a personal.

[ZeroRaziel]

Cause someone else tested and was denied.. or is lying.

I assume that noone is lying here. It seems that there are accounts which can make only one single bid per all characters and there are others that can bid with all 8. So far seems like it was intentional on SE part.
This issue has been more or less elaborated in one of the "Housing" forum threads:

FURTHER DISCUSSION

Whoever purchased the FC house from the placard is the one who is flagged and locked to a single lotto ticket entry ONLY on the character that did the purchasing. Any alternate characters in the FC will get an error message that the service account is locked from buying more tickets. Everyone else in the FC who meets the criteria (are members for at least 30 days, have permission to buy/relocate, and have the money on hand, etc) can buy tickets on every character they have in the FC.

If the character who purchased the house from the placard (and is still actively in the FC) leaves the FC, all of this unlocks and resets. (Do not do this. Leaving the FC and returning to it will just trigger the 30 day membership rule and screw you out of a ticket if you already bought one.)

I can see what SE is attempting here, but it's backwards. If you're trying to prevent people from buying more FC houses with shell FCs, there are better ways to do this. You're just locking some people out of lotto tickets who simply want to help relocate their FC to a new plot.

Flagged accounts should only be restricted from purchasing brand new housing, not moving current housing to a new plot.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

I rather a lotto than placard hell, much more healthy for players. I currently have 2 other FC competing for the plot I have bid on. Fingers crossed.

[Recon1o6]

I think there's 3 reasons why a lot of people aren't going after the ishgard plots, and its the same reason I'm not looking to move up to a large there from the medium I got by sheer luck early shb

1. The outdoor space is about a third to half of the size of similar plots in mist, at least for larges and mediums. I could fit 2 regalia end to end from door to gate and still have room left over in mist. In empyreum I couldn't do that.
2. Ishgard has quite frankly, views as depressing as the goblet which is the unpopular of the previous 4 districts. 2 of the 3 mansions and about half the smalls look straight at the walls on either side, the environment is mostly monotone grey and the mountains in the distance arent exactly nice to look at when most of the time its cloudy
3. The layout of ishgard's housing leaves something to be desired with a lot of stairs and odd market board placements

also friday is probably the day most tickets will enter since thats when everyone is free.

[Broken_Wind]

I think there's 3 reasons why a lot of people aren't going after the ishgard plots, and its the same reason I'm not looking to move up to a large there from the medium I got by sheer luck early shb

1. The outdoor space is about a third to half of the size of similar plots in mist, at least for larges and mediums. I could fit 2 regalia end to end from door to gate and still have room left over in mist. In empyreum I couldn't do that.
2. Ishgard has quite frankly, views as depressing as the goblet which is the unpopular of the previous 4 districts. 2 of the 3 mansions and about half the smalls look straight at the walls on either side, the environment is mostly monotone grey and the mountains in the distance arent exactly nice to look at when most of the time its cloudy
3. The layout of ishgard's housing leaves something to be desired with a lot of stairs and odd market board placements

also friday is probably the day most tickets will enter since thats when everyone is free.

I like the Goblet's mountain views. The outer rim of Goblet has a few plots that have some really nice views.
Ishgard's mountain views should be similar, but they arent. The layout of the zone leaves it so no plots seem to have good mountain views

Ishgard is by far my least favorite housing zone. Its just depressing to me.

[Gemina]

I think there's 3 reasons why a lot of people aren't going after the ishgard plots...

also friday is probably the day most tickets will enter since thats when everyone is free.

I don't think there is any other reason other than your last statement. The only reason why I am even remotely interested in housing this go is because myself and some other peeps left our former FC and started one of our own. It did not take long for me to see that showing how many entries a plot has would keep the bidders at bay, making the lottery period entirely redundant. Might as well make it a 24-hour period with a reasonable amount of notice placed on the loadstone. OR, the placard only shows that at least one entry has been placed.

I am not an economist, been involved in the FFXIV housing woes, or even very perceptive, and even I can point out with relative ease the faulty means the devs go about handling this thing.

[Vahlnir]

I think there's 3 reasons why a lot of people aren't going after the ishgard plots, and its the same reason I'm not looking to move up to a large there from the medium I got by sheer luck early shb

1. The outdoor space is about a third to half of the size of similar plots in mist, at least for larges and mediums. I could fit 2 regalia end to end from door to gate and still have room left over in mist. In empyreum I couldn't do that.
2. Ishgard has quite frankly, views as depressing as the goblet which is the unpopular of the previous 4 districts. 2 of the 3 mansions and about half the smalls look straight at the walls on either side, the environment is mostly monotone grey and the mountains in the distance arent exactly nice to look at when most of the time its cloudy
3. The layout of ishgard's housing leaves something to be desired with a lot of stairs and odd market board placements

also friday is probably the day most tickets will enter since thats when everyone is free.

I like Ishgard in general so trying for a plot was a no brainer for me. I'm totally not getting the plot I threw my bid into, but oh well. I have a house already, so I'm not exactly losing anything by trying. Just...lacking a very large sum of gil for a few days.