Housing - Round 4

[Eris4494]

Add instant housing please everytime its never first or second to enter the lottery ever wins. Its ether the last or in the 20s the winning number. All plots have entered has been ether number 28 or somewere is the 20s that won. Should be first come fist server. Where if find empty plot you can buy it right then.

[Mika_Zahard]

So, if there's no available private houses for Round 5, will SE say noone else needs a house as there's no statistics for it?

[Ekoko]

So, if there's no available private houses for Round 5, will SE say noone else needs a house as there's no statistics for it?

Honestly, it would be nice if they quietly toggled the ward settings over for when there are no plots in the currently personal plot allocated wards, and that they've been monitoring the numbers across the lotteries... but I'm not holding my breath.

Mostly hoping that the next PLL on June 1st will give an update and/or address it, and also likely crush some hopes and dreams going around about Island Sanctuary due to the lack of information about that too leading to assumptions being jumped to.

[Johners]

Mostly hoping that the next PLL on June 1st will give an update and/or address it, and also likely crush some hopes and dreams going around about Island Sanctuary due to the lack of information about that too leading to assumptions being jumped to.

There was so much hype around Island Sanctuary and we know absolutely nothing about it. We still don't know anything either. At the very best, I'm expecting an apartment style building and some outdoor space for minion activities and gardening. I'm really not expecting this to be the instanced housing dream some clowns are trying to sell.

[Ekoko]

There was so much hype around Island Sanctuary and we know absolutely nothing about it. We still don't know anything either. At the very best, I'm expecting an apartment style building and some outdoor space for minion activities and gardening. I'm really not expecting this to be the instanced housing dream some clowns are trying to sell.

Yeah, I've been following JP interviews and the like and there's hardly any information on either side of things so I feel it's a bit like the Versus XIII situation back in the day: lack of information led to people making assumptions and then this getting spread around as misinformation.

I can only hope people don't get angry with the development team if the players' expectations fuelled by assumptions and hope are knocked down. At the same time, I would hope the development team does at the very least make note of the reception to the content should they actually detail it properly in this PLL. Mostly given the PLL was titled "6.2 Part 1" which in itself, makes me feel a bit skeptical.

It would be great if people got what they wanted, but if it does then one would have to hope that they don't neglect the existing garden system tied to the housing system as well. Until they give us further information, we can only assume there's the potential overlap of the two systems and that it's unlikely in either event for the Island Sanctuary stuff to result in a feasible replacement or proper alternative for the housing system demand versus supply situation.

Honestly, I'm not expecting it to resolve it either and while I know I'm being a tad pessimistic, I've kind of gotten burned by getting my hopes up for various things with SQEX in the past. Would rather give the benefit of the doubt, but I don't want to jump to conclusions about it either.

With all that out of the way, I can at least say I've had solidarity with people on Cactuar doing /pdead as the results window of the lottery hit and it has been nice seeing people around the residential areas in such numbers. It would be nice if the numbers around the areas stayed this way, but unless they shuffle things around or somehow one or more of the 10 plots that were available this lottery were won by people relocating, only the FC wards will have this activity.

[Jojoya]

So, if there's no available private houses for Round 5, will SE say noone else needs a house as there's no statistics for it?

They would still have the statistics from the previous lottery when players were still able to bid. Eventually there will be other houses that become available so players can go back to entering the lottery.

The important thing for those who are trying to get house to remember: DO NOT GIVE UP. KEEP ENTERING IF A HOUSE IS AVAILABLE.

If people give up, SE is going to assume that demand is falling. If they keep bidding when possible, SE will see that the demand still exists.

Encourage your friends who are also getting discouraged but don't post in the forums to keep bidding as well.

Another FC House attempt failed.

How are you failing when there are hundreds of small FC plots still left on every world, many of which gets zero bids?

Or are you trying to hold out for a specific size/plot so there's too much competition? That's not the way to do it when you're going after a first house. Take what you can get, at least for the sake of getting garden/workshop/private chambers started. Then try to upgrade to a better plot.

[Simple_Barghest]

Because I can only bid on one House at a time, bruv.

[Vahlnir]

Because I can only bid on one House at a time, bruv.

They aren't wrong though. After a certain point, like when most mediums and larges are gone, smalls are your best chance. Gotta start somewhere, and snagging a small plot is a foot in the door.

[Simple_Barghest]

Yeah, and?
Even if you bid on a Small, so can other players who get the same bright idea. Which means you can lose a coinflip - as I just did today.
But wait. Obviously that's still my fault for bidding on the "wrong" Small.

[Eraden]

What we need, first and foremost, is for SE to acknowledge that there is a problem and that they are looking into finding ways to deal with it. Without them even acknowledging that there is a problem, we have no way of knowing if it is ever going to be fixed.