Housing - Round 4

[Mika_Zahard]

Medium in Shiro which I bid on last week... But except instead of 150+ participants its now close to 400. If only FC housing wasnt a thing it would spread the load of people bidding.

Or you know.. not having any form of auction. Id only be competing vs like 10 people.

Yes, vs 10 people and 30 autoclickers/bots.

Thats why im okay with bidding.

[Aldotsk]

This is exactly why instance housing is needed to prevent such drama.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

I only wanted either Shirogane or Empyreum plot, doesn’t matter which size or class. Don’t think I remember seeing any remaining open plot(s) the last time I surveyed though, so I’m not bidding for any this round. I did spot an absurd amount of bidder vs actually available plots. Not even expunging the entire FC-owned plots would satisfy this demand when the supply of available house plots are a mere drop in the bucket.

Creating more wards or introduce instanced housing seems the only way to please as much players as possible.

[Mika_Zahard]

I only wanted either Shirogane or Empyreum plot, doesn’t matter which size or class. Don’t think I remember seeing any remaining open plot(s) the last time I surveyed though, so I’m not bidding for any this round. I did spot an absurd amount of bidder vs actually available plots. Not even expunging the entire FC-owned plots would satisfy this demand when the supply of available house plots are a mere drop in the bucket.

Creating more wards or introduce instanced housing seems the only way to please as much players as possible.

There was a small private plot "open" in Empyreum for the past 3 turns. Apparently someone either trolled on that plot, or shenanigans. But for 3 rounds that plot was unclaimed.

[Cincierta]

All the large plots I was looking at are currently owned on my server. Really would've loved to have that large plot in Lavender Beds.

[Akira_Kojima]

seeing 300+ people bidding on a lavender beds medium in hyperion, at this point this is just pure comedy to me

[Mesarthim]

Can't obtain what doesn't exist, leviathan is out of larges.

Though the second of three lotteries I attempted I was #32, #33 won.

[Jojoya]

Coeurl personals (don't think anyone cares about entry counts on FC plots at this point since 95% of them are just for relocation)

Mist
small - 80, 97
medium - none available
large - none available

Lavender Beds
small - 127
medium - none available
large - none available

Goblet
small - 58, 70, 61, 60, 75
medium - none available
large - none available

Shirogane
small - 107, 93, 86
medium - none available
large - none available

Empyreum
small - 103, 94
medium - none available
large -none available

That's a total of 1,111 bids for personal smalls.

Compare to the numbers from the previous lottery period taken about the same time before the entry period closed:
smalls - 1093
mediums - 349
larges - 183
total 1625

My guess is most of the drop off is from players who already had a house and were looking to upgrade to a bigger one in the prior lottery but lacking any mediums or larges this time had no reason to enter.

[Rolder50]

Here's hoping that SE sees the absolutely ridiculous number of people bidding on plots (and thus how many people want a house but cannot get one) and start to make changes. It was kind of difficult to tell in the placard bot days, but now it's clear as day.

[Vynt]

Entered in every lottery, first on meds, now on smalls, since that's all that's left available... Jenova is sparse but hey, at least there's only 273 entries on the lavender beds plot currently... 0.36% is good odds right?