Housing - Round 4

[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.

[Anienai]

Behemoth FC (Ishgard) plots are WIDE open.

[Vynt]

Went and checked all 4 small plots that are currently open for entries:

Mists: 239 entries
Lavender Beds: 273 entries
Goblet: 222 entries
Empyreum: 238 entries

That puts Jenova at 972 bids on small plots. Based on the locations of all 4, it's unlikely that a majority of them are relocations (though of course not impossible). Aside from Empyreum, they're all varying levels of inconvenient, and I don't think I would classify any of them as highly desirable locations.

I opted for Lavender Beds because after playing the odds and going for least-popular plots in the past 3 lottos, I decided this time, since they were all going to be heinously high, I'd at least enter for the one I liked the most.... once you hit 200 entries, how much do more really matter?

[Necrotica]

Add instanced housing

[Soge01]

Didn't even notice round 3 came and went. xD The amount of bidders on what few houses are left is gonna be huge!

[Vahlnir]

After losing 2/3 of the lotteries so far (only participated in 2) I decided to go small and bid on a small in the Empyreum. It's certainly better than nothing. Currently I'm the only bidder and, judging by every other small I have come across, I think I have a decent shot. I'm sure I'll still find a way to lose, but seeing as these plots are still available 4 cycles later...I'm fairly confident in my bid. Confident enough that I'm saving myself the trip and logging out right there in front of the placard. No one wants a small. I don't necessarily want one either, but I've gotta play the odds right, and bidding on random mediums with upwards of 50+ bids is not playing with good odds at all. This will probably be the only way I manage to get an Ishgard plot under the current system. Wtb instanced housing.