Housing Pre Maintenance Hot-Fix Bids Weren't Counted [Working Theory]

[Jojoya]

Did they have submissions that were both pre and post? Or were all the combined entries post? (just data gathering - thanks for your info!)

Honestly isn't worth your time trying to figure it out since you (along with the rest of us) don't have access to the code and can't implement a fix regardless.

SE is aware of the problem and working on it. Once they have it isolated, it sounds like they're going to make certain actual winners are found among the original entries and given a chance to claim the plot before another lottery period begins.

If that's the case, the only players that will be out will be those that claimed their refunds this morning out of frustration. It could be that SE will even work with those players individually if they were the only bid on the plot.

[Faafetai]

I know of at least 3 houses on 3 separate servers were bid on right after 6.1 maintenance. They were the solo bid on the plot and all lost to 0. This could just be a coincidence, but it is very possible someone forgot to re port over database tables after the hotfix. It could also just be because it was a 50/50 chance you would win over the server admin. 0 was probably set as a number so that if there were no bids they could reset the house or demolish it and/or reset the house for the next lottery. I could believe that the rng would favor one outcome this lotto and than favor another for the next due to the nature of the rng in this game.

The thing that makes me upset too is some who have won a house, were waiting a long time and their fc was the only people to bid on the houses anyway. At least in the neighborhoods I was looking in when going around looking at the depressingly empty housing wards with 1 participant on the placard, probably due to them also not getting a refund in fear of never getting the house they should have won. There were also people I also do not want any FC's to lose their houses because this is Square's fault and no one should be punished for this blunder.

Honestly isn't worth your time trying to figure it out since you (along with the rest of us) don't have access to the code and can't implement a fix regardless.

Speculating and attempting to figure out how borked everything is, is kind of fun. It gets the brain juices flowing and takes my mind off of how angry this honestly made me initially. Though ironically there have been some issue that have helped in solved the problem through these discussions in the past. Also when discovering some things within the game I have headpalmed at some of the implimentation of some of the systems that I know for a fact are horrible. Like the fact that all of our characters when glamours are wearing the glamour sets as well as our regular armor. So our characters are constantly wearing multiple sets of armor and every time we go into a dungeon our character along with those items are copy and pasted to the instanced server that holds the dungeons. Which is why they have been taking some time to allow us to change glamour plates in resting zones and keeping it to only a few areas because it would cause too much lag.

[Dracogryph]

One of my alts' FCs put in all their bids pre maintenance (and saw the ward/plot switch bug) and won their house with ticket 1. So you definitely could win with pre-maintenance tickets for FCs.