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

[Arzalis]

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Pretty much all this.

Housing systems usually come in two flavors:

1) Instanced and everyone gets one, but it's not in the world itself.
2) In the open world, but has a limited supply.

FFXIV combined the two systems, but literally chose the two negatives. FFXIV housing is both instanced and has limited supply.

[anguel]

150+ ? hihi your cute



https://ibb.co/ZWdHWSR

thats like what 0.25% chance of wining at this point ? lol

[LianaThorne]

150+ ? hihi your cute



https://ibb.co/ZWdHWSR

thats like what 0.25% chance of wining at this point ? lol

.003% if my math is correct but don't trust me on that.

[anguel]

.003% if my math is correct but don't trust me on that.

i will believe you there xD number is already too high, for me to even comprehend why would anybody keep participating in the lottery !

[TMW001]

I think what he means is that in order to keep your house, you have to stay constantly subscribed. If they changed that and had the system create new wards every time one filled up, people would just grab houses for themselves, their alts and unsub whenever they pleased and the houses would stay there, vacant.

(Personally I think it should be without neighborhoods. I've rarely seen another soul in the whole subdivision).

Or at least let you build one with your FC or people on your friends list who are on the same serve and region

[Sarevok_Thordin]

The odds aren't in my favor enough, change it.

[Gember]

Placard clicking didn't suck that much tbh. I got my personal without botting, and honestly there was no need to camp plots for several hours like people say, as long as you were informed enough about it. Sure it was shit, but lottery is worse. Those who REALLY wanted a house and were willing to put some effort had a huge advantage.
There's only one real fix to this now: instanced housing.

No matter where I went; there were so many people with that busy icon up doing the auto-clicker. I could never get a house until the lottery came out because it was unfair to players who didn't cheat. Including the quality of life trying to click that placard for hours was awful. The lottery was good for THOSE reasons, but it did not fix all of the problems. Just hope that Island Sanctuary will satisfied these needs.

[Stormpeaks]

Honestly I wish I could downvote this comment. No matter where I went; there were so many people with that busy icon up doing the auto-clicker. I could never get a house until the lottery came out because it was unfair to players who didn't cheat. Including the quality of life trying to click that placard for hours was awful. The lottery was good for THOSE reasons, but it did not fix all of the problems. Just hope that Island Sanctuary will satisfied these needs.

If you clicked it for multiple hours at once, the problem was you, the only time you had to click was prime time which consists of 2 hours.

[Skivvy]

And I still find it very funny that people consider something they do in a video game "work". I get it, I miss first come first serve housing as well but let's not pretend poopsocking or using autohotkey is "work", lol.

I was a little scared to look up what 'poopsocking' meant, but I did, and now I have been enlightened. What a delightful term! lol

[EZGIL]

150+ ? hihi your cute



https://ibb.co/ZWdHWSR

thats like what 0.25% chance of wining at this point ? lol

had a medium lottery last week that had 367 bids. Saw a person post on here that one medium lottery had 650+ bids on their server. The current small im bidding on is ONLY 52 kek