Just Another Housing Complaint

[Glitchima]

Just wanted to hop in and say I agree with the post overall! I don't think it's fair to argue and use an example of people spending allnighters at the time to just get a home. That's just wrecking your personal health for a video game - not something worth bragging about or suggesting that someone else who didn't do that is at fault for it because they're complaining about that system now. That's just unfair to me. Even the staff of this game have specifically said they want their players to actually take care of their health and play when they want to. There's many reasons why someone wasn't able to get a house and it's not okay to assume the reasoning as to why.

As an example, I have some friends who deal with issues with fatigue, and are often far too tired to even consider going for a house at the time when lotteries weren't a thing yet. It's just not cool to think that just because you managed to get one with the old system that everyone else could do the same. While the lottery nowadays does help with this issue specifically, the main issue is still just the fact that there simply isn't enough plots to meet the demand.

I also agree and firmly believe that they're not actively ignoring this problem or had any malicious intents behind it. Just an idea that didn't go well, and that they can't exactly backpedal on now because they're far too deep in. The only thing that could possibly make sense to me at least is to create more wards. I don't know how much effort such a task would take, but as someone who's been wanting a house for a really long time now the lottery system surely isn't going to help the problem of just not having enough houses. It sucks seeing hundreds of people entering for one plot of land knowing that most of them will have to login and defeatedly walk up to the plot and take their money back. I really want to just add another voice to echo the "Please do something about this."

[Gaspodia]

It sucks seeing hundreds of people entering for one plot of land knowing that most of them will have to login and defeatedly walk up to the plot and take their money back. I really want to just add another voice to echo the "Please do something about this."

I do wish it was an automatic refund. I know some people really have their heart set on getting a house so it must feel awful to have to go get your money back.

[Silverbane]

It must feel awful to have to go get your money back.

Nope. I've done it four times and it didn't feel awful even once.
It felt really nice when my spouse won, though.

That said, automatic refund would be convenient, especially when I'm up to placing six bids at a time.

[Gaspodia]

Nope. I've done it four times and it didn't feel awful even once.
It felt really nice when my spouse won, though.

That said, automatic refund would be convenient, especially when I'm up to placing six bids at a time.

Me neither, but I'm not everyone I had a complete fit of the giggles when I went to check the results of the last lottery though. My husband had bid on a small in Shirogane and I went to check it less than 10 minutes after the timer ended. Not only hadn't he won, the person that did win had already put up a house and was bouncing around the place adding lots and lots of crazy decorations - it was good to see the house went to someone who was getting so much joy from it!

[ijuakos_xqwzts]

Me neither, but I'm not everyone I had a complete fit of the giggles when I went to check the results of the last lottery though. My husband had bid on a small in Shirogane and I went to check it less than 10 minutes after the timer ended. Not only hadn't he won, the person that did win had already put up a house and was bouncing around the place adding lots and lots of crazy decorations - it was good to see the house went to someone who was getting so much joy from it!

That's like the exact opposite of what happened my last run. The number before mine had won the plot and it never got claimed. I rebid on the same property and the handful of houses left have 100+ each.

[CammyBear]

I would also like to see a solution to this issue.

Things are getting out of hand, and it would be nice to at least hear something from the devs since it's been awhile. I would like to think they are aware of the current situation.

We need something to change here, because there is no way the demand can feasibly be met as things are now.

I think I would feel better if something official would be said sometime soon, let us know that they at least know what's going on and that they actually care. Because, even if that might not be the case, it feels as though they don't care, from a player viewpoint. Say something! What's going on, and why? What's being done?

Thank you.

[YukikoKurosawa]

Of the whopping FIVE remaining houses in Shirogane 100+ people are bidding on each.

Shockingly the more houses dry up from past bids, the more competition there is for the remaining few thereby making it even less likely you'll get one if you didn't get one on the first bidding round.

Nice system you got there SE.

[S1lentSymphony]

So I'm not going to get into a full on opinion. I just want to provide some information for those here. Information current as of 11:30am MST on Mateus:

Previous lottery cycle had 313 FC smalls open to start in Empyreum alone.

The start of the entry period for this cycle it was at 282.

As of my last sweep? Its down to 255.

255 SMALL PLOTS. That are FC only.

So we went from 313, to 282, now at 255 on last sweep. All of them small FC plots. Its early in the results period, but I wanted to give a piece of information without an actual opinion

[Jojoya]

So I'm not going to get into a full on opinion. I just want to provide some information for those here. Information current as of 11:30am MST on Mateus:

Previous lottery cycle had 313 FC smalls open to start in Empyreum alone.

The start of the entry period for this cycle it was at 282.

As of my last sweep? Its down to 255.

255 SMALL PLOTS. That are FC only.

So we went from 313, to 282, now at 255 on last sweep. All of them small FC plots. Its early in the results period, but I wanted to give a piece of information without an actual opinion

Another interesting piece of information if you get bored enough to collect it - how many of the owned small plots are owned by FCs created on or after March 28th of this year and how many of those have 4 members or less. (Just in Empyrean, would be too difficult to sort out the smalls newly purchased in other districts)

Wondering if the shell FCs are starting to move in as some of us have predicted.

I'll check Coeurl's once I get in game a little later.

[ballprince]

Another interesting piece of information if you get bored enough to collect it - how many of the owned small plots are owned by FCs created on or after March 28th of this year and how many of those have 4 members or less. (Just in Empyrean, would be too difficult to sort out the smalls newly purchased in other districts)

Wondering if the shell FCs are starting to move in as some of us have predicted.

I'll check Coeurl's once I get in game a little later.

That's a really good suggestion, I'm going to check Faerie later tonight. I have had a suspicion this would be coming up on us.

I'm curious, have they ever mentioned anything about shell FC's in the past? I have to imagine it's something they'd dislike, given solo shells in particular should be impossible to do given the system and directly go against the social aspect of an FC, to me at least.