[Salt thread] Owning a House Offically became Dead content for me

[drtasteyummy]

I won a Medium on Light, I didn't really need nor do I have it decorated at all but it was fun standing around when the lottery was drawn and wave to everybody that had to get there just to get their money back

[SamSmoot]

Or they could just do instanced housing since this stupid bloated ward system has been a complete dumpster fire that serves no purpose other than to be a constant source of frustration and drain on resources. The fact that people are obtaining houses for the sole purpose of being a complete douche to the community is just insane. Does square enix even care?

Instance the plots themselves. No wards, Hundreds of owners per plot in the same neighborhood will also produce more street traffic. You select which owner's house will be visible on a plot via the placard (with thumbnails please.)
It would also be nice if you could see the street activity from your instanced plot, but I suspect that would be difficult.

[Jojoya]

It would also be nice if you could see the street activity from your instanced plot, but I suspect that would be difficult.

Back at the 2019 EU FanFest, YoshiP said it would be impossible to see the traffic in a ward from inside an instanced housing area but they were working on a technology that would simulate seeing it. Have no idea what the status is though we already do have similar from the random NPCs that appear and having pathing/dialogue in places like Firmament.

[Renalt]

Housing isn't that bad. I mean I just walked up to the bridge in Gridania and claimed it as my own cause no one wanted it. So I decorated under the bridge with rocks and some more rocks. When I think I'm having company over I like to rearrange the rocks.

[KurohNeko]

Since the inception of the Housing Lottery, i lost every time and now on my Home world Shiva there is no Housing Plot Left as of Yesterdays Drawing(as far as i looked).

Since they dont do Demolitions anymore there wont be freed up plots from inactive players occupying plots making it mpossible to be able to own a House.
FC Rooms or Apartment is not a Sufficient alternative, i had the faint hope island sanctuary maybe we can have a house to ones liking but its static Buildings.

Please add more wards.

Thank you,

Wait let me grab my pen... "Add more wards in like next expansion for you to also lose on", got it.

[KurohNeko]

I don't understand why you want a house with island sanctuary's available? I have a mansion and a level 65 workshop and I spend most of my time on the island. If I had to choose between the two I'd pick the island.

Yeah no. I have a house to and my FC has a workshop I use. You can farm at your house and make actual money and idling in a furnished house that doesn't kick you for AFK beats the island.

[KurohNeko]

I'm utterly convinced people who find the gameplay loop of island sanctuary so utterly captivating don't have a great deal of experience with the life-sim and colony management genres of games in general.

It missed the mark by quite a margin from what the concept of settling and developing an uninhabited island could've been, it's more like Tataru tricked us into running her off-shore mammet sweatshop for her.

We seriously need some MSQ or at least a major side quest where we find out she's actually evil.

[Jojoya]

We seriously need some MSQ or at least a major side quest where we find out she's actually evil.

She's not evil. She's just obsessed with wealth like so many other natives of Ul'dah. That's been obvious since the Four Lords. Until that point, her concern about the Scion's need for money to fund operations seemed reasonable. On the other hand, her efforts seem to be focused on making certain the Scions stay well funded (and independent of outside money unlike ARR and post-ARR) as opposed to some sort of personal power scheme. We'll have to see how it plays out in the future.

Island Sanctuary is one of the few times I've gotten mildly annoyed with SE's marketing of new content. Turns out it's not that relaxing place our character can go to when we need a break, We're merely getting the chance to manage Tataru's remote mammet sweatshop. I don't mind it as content but I feel the theme was misrepresented.

[Raikai]

I honestly thought the lottery would make things better, but somehow I feel, today, more hopeless than the placard clicking from before.

The only thing the new system achieved was probably just stop people from doing unhealthy camping, like not sleeping.

[Oizen]

I honestly thought the lottery would make things better, but somehow I feel, today, more hopeless than the placard clicking from before.

The only thing the new system achieved was probably just stop people from doing unhealthy camping, like not sleeping.

Plaquard clicking at least gave you the agency to actually feasibly get a house if you dedicated the unrealistically stupid amount of time to it.

All the Lottery has done has made it statistically impossible to even get a house in the first place for a majority of bidders.

Both systems are shit, nothing has been solved, and the core issue of housing continues to be ignored.