So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[Eraden]

And here we have the reason for these arguments (being the opposite of the selfish scum on the other side), because some people can't be happy unless they have something others don't have, which is why they go out of their way to jump to these threads to let everyone know they have a house and that they love scarcity.

I'd encourage them to stop pretending and start posting GIF pictures of their character pointing and laughing. I doubt they need to worry about things changing any time soon, if ever.

Well I just recently won the Lottery and acquired a small house and I can tell you that by no means is my call for more housing over. I want EVERYONE to have access to some form of housing that they can be happy with. We need to keep letting SE know that more housing is needed and continue to offer up some concrete suggestions as to what in particular, people are looking for.

[Oizen]

The moment everyone has a house, the feeling of having a house dies off.
I like it the way it is, they just need to re-enable the timer and drop it to 30 days.

People be like "FFXIV community is the best", then you see elitism posts like this lmao

[Kyssa]

Well I just recently won the Lottery and acquired a small house..

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your new home and the memories you will create within it!

[UkcsAlias]

I see a lot of plots to grab.

Ah yeah, but you aren't interested in "one" plot, you are aiming at THAT special and flashy 20 or 50 milion plot near the beach/lake.
Well know this: when you have an house and teleport to it, you only see a part of the garden and the door, the rest doesn't matter.

I didnt care which plot i would get, i went for a small one every time, didnt care about location, but in the end, all lottery cycles i didnt end up with one. The 2 best chances were a 50% and 25% one, the rest was all <1%.

Plenty of people are already happy with a small one. A medium or large is nice, and you might have the gil for it, but if the odds for a small one are better, you might still just go for that.

[Mr_Gyactus]

I didnt care which plot i would get, i went for a small one every time, didnt care about location, but in the end, all lottery cycles i didnt end up with one. The 2 best chances were a 50% and 25% one, the rest was all <1%.

Plenty of people are already happy with a small one. A medium or large is nice, and you might have the gil for it, but if the odds for a small one are better, you might still just go for that.

I'm online right now.

5 in shiro
4 beds
4 empyreum
3 mist
6 goblet

the OP talked about 150+ bets for each free plot but there will not be 22 x 150+ = 3300 players bidding for these plots.

On the other hand I'm 100% sure there will be hundreds (300+) bidding for the few available M size plots. I'm sure because a lot of owners of a small house will be tempted to "upgrade":
- It's free of risks (you don't lose money),
- it takes little time,
- it gives (if you are the winner) a good prize.
- it's fair (you cannot offer more for a better chance to win, for example)
In short it's the ideal bet.

Right now there are 2 problems:
- autodemolition is off
- the bet has only benefits.

[Reap00]

So, to like... state the obvious, every lottery from here on out is going to be very long odds of winning.

Like... 150-1 odds or much worse.

Is this really the system you envisioned to 'solve' the housing problems? How exactly is this better than clicking a placard against FAR LESS than 150-1 odds.... or worse.

How about keep adding wards to every housing district until its nowhere close to 150 or more people bidding on a single plot. Whats the excuse... spaghetti database issues? I'm not asking for a plot for everyone but 150, or worse, bidding on a single lot... shouldnt be left as the standard either.

You would rather sit in one location spamming a placard for 8 hours+? If you don't like it buy an apartment or room from your FC.

[Bukachu]

You would rather sit in one location spamming a placard for 8 hours+? If you don't like it buy an apartment or room from your FC.

they quiet literally offered a suggestion bozo, and nowhere did they mention anything about placarads.

SE should add more wards, or implement instanced housing for houses (no not apartments)

[EZGIL]

You would rather sit in one location spamming a placard for 8 hours+? If you don't like it buy an apartment or room from your FC.

Yes, I very much would rather be clicking a placard against other players for land. The odd's of success were far greater for me personally.

I don't want an apartment.

I do have an FC room... of the FC house I bought... by making my own FC.... and adding alts.... and cheesing the system for land.... because I saw this BS coming LONG ago.

Empy w15,p37, Lamia, come by anytime

[Glandire]

Which wards are you looking at? Because the FC only wards being empty has nothing to do with no auto demolition happening. FCs simply do not want small houses.

I didn't mean empty as in not bought. I meant land aquired with no estate hall build. There is for example one like that in my friends ward on Twintania. So land has owner since housing district dropped but they never used it to a point of not even building a house in the first place.

[Saraide]

I didn't mean empty as in not bought. I meant land aquired with no estate hall build. There is for example one like that in my friends ward on Twintania. So land has owner since housing district dropped but they never used it to a point of not even building a house in the first place.

Ah I was not aware the auto demolition halt also included empty plots.