Private House Relocation - Help! I won but it won't let me relocate!

[Solarra]

I'd really think hard about relinquishing your present plot. I understand that you really, really want to relocate but if it doesn't work you'll have no house at all and a load of furniture to store. It's also possible you might run into difficulties when you try and buy again.

I did relinquish a personal house recently, having run into an unexpected feature of the new system where one of my characters is flagged because he bought the FC house, so none of my alts can bid on a FC house while he is in that FC. Relinquishing got me nowhere, because his personal house wasn't the issue. I just read the error message saying I owned too many houses and assumed it was.
Last lottery, I got lucky and got him another personal, but storing all his furniture until that happened was a pain and I really missed my house.

Edit: Do let us know how you get on!

[Teegan]

I'd really think hard about relinquishing your present plot. I understand that you really, really want to relocate but if it doesn't work you'll have no house at all and a load of furniture to store. It's also possible you might run into difficulties when you try and buy again.

I did relinquish a personal house recently, having run into an unexpected feature of the new system where one of my characters is flagged because he bought the FC house, so none of my alts can bid on a FC house while he is in that FC. Relinquishing got me nowhere, because his personal house wasn't the issue. I just read the error message saying I owned too many houses and assumed it was.
Last lottery, I got lucky and got him another personal, but storing all his furniture until that happened was a pain and I really missed my house.

Edit: Do let us know how you get on!

I'm so sorry this happened to you too!

I presume you were bidding on an FC house and that's when you got the error? At the bidding point, not the purchase point? Just to see how similar the bug is. I've had people mention this one, which is why I removed all my characters from their FCs to try and fix it, is that what worked for you?

Yeah, I'm really scared to do it but storing furniture is not too much of a problem as my FC mates let me stash it all in the FC house storage which had plenty of space. That and my apartment storage. I've actually emptied the house pre-emptively so that if I go for it, I'm ready at the last minute. I don't mind too much as I want to re-do my interior anyway.

The main thing is I'll be sad to end up with no private plot if it fails. The problem is...if I don't try, I'll always wonder if it would have worked! XD

[Solarra]

The problem is...if I don't try, I'll always wonder if it would have worked! XD

Yeah, I totally understand what you are saying because that's exactly how I felt. That plot would have been our FC forever home. However, once that little personal house in the LB was gone and I had nothing to show for it, I felt rather differently!

And to confirm, yes, the error message came up for me at the bidding point and it's been confirmed it is not a bug. Removing that character from the FC allowed me to put in bids on my qualifying alts.

[Teegan]

Yeah, I totally understand what you are saying because that's exactly how I felt. That plot would have been our FC forever home. However, once that little personal house in the LB was gone and I had nothing to show for it, I felt rather differently!

And to confirm, yes, the error message came up for me at the bidding point and it's been confirmed it is not a bug. Removing that character from the FC allowed me to put in bids on my qualifying alts.

Ah, that character was in a different FC that already had a house, perhaps? Yeah, that's just one of the rules. However, I have heard of the flag thing bugging out so even when the characters meet the rules they can't bid.

Sadly mine is a bit different - the bid was accepted as normal; it's the relocation system that has a bug.

[Solarra]

Ah, that character was in a different FC that already had a house, perhaps?

No, just to clarify I had several alts all in the same FC. One character bought the original FC house. When we tried to relocate to a medium, only he could place a bid. Since a few members were inactive, and I had alts that qualified, I wanted to place a couple of bids using them. I couldn't do that until I kicked the character who had originally bought the FC house. Once he was gone all qualifying alts could bid.
It was reported and definitely isn't a bug. I guess it's a mechanism to stop shell FCs from getting an unfair advantage, not sure it's been very successful though looking at some of the wards in Empyreum.