Sad with lottery results

[ameliaw]

Genuinely not trying to be callous but...it's a house?

I've never done housing in the game, got an Apartment about a year ago mostly to dump all the (interior) housing stuff I've collected over 9 years of playing from events and random other stuff that was taking up MASSIVE Retainer limited inventory slots. I walked around some of the housing wards a couple days ago and noticed a lot of smalls with 2, 1, or even 0 bids on them. Mostly places that weren't particularly "special". People seemed to want the plots right near amenities (Aetherite, Market Board, etc), or ones in special places by themselves, like the island ones in Gridania.

But I noticed several plots of smalls on several of the wards just weren't being bid on at all. The plot I eventually put in a bid on had, of the 6 new Wards with two subdivisions each (12 total maps, one is just rotated 90 degrees from the other) only something like 3-4 people across all 12 bidding on that plot in either division. I had though to wait until the last day and find a house where few were bidding, but I figured I'd just pull the trigger and go ahead and put in my bid early so I didn't forget or something. Tossed in my Gil for the lottery on one ofthose plots with 0 bidders - Small size. Thought maybe I'd win, maybe I'd lose, if I lost I'd just get my Gil back and be no worse off than I was before. If I won, I'd have a nice cozy Small house I could play with as the mood struck over the years since they'd probably never be a better time to buy one or chance to get one with everyone else going for Mediums and Larges and premium location Smalls.

Hopped on today and saw people talking about housing and had a "Oh, right, I should check on that...!" moment. I won my house. I was the only one that bid on it. It's a Small. But it's my Small. As the saying goes "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good".

They may mostly be Smalls, but if the argument is "I can do everything in an apartment but I need a house to garden and put all this external stuff I've gotten from seasonal events", well...a Small can do that very thing. But then I do tend to be one of those people content with what I have and maybe that's it. /shrug

People need to stop being snobs about smalls. You didn't even need to go to the Goblet to win one - there was a handful of smalls in MIST that finished with 0 bids(ward 27, Behemoth). I didn't even look around carefully, just checked a few plots in search of neighbors and found a few. I was the single bidder for mine as well.
Smalls are perfectly fine and often have better views than mediums.

[Mirikh]

Oh, okay. That's good then, though. Means you have a house to decorate and live in and all that stuff.

I get attached to things, so if I had a small (or an anything) for years, I'd probably not want to move, but I'm sentimental like that.

It's not just sentiment. When you create something that works for you and that feels unique it's hard to tear it down just for a bit of extra space. The layouts of smalls mediums and larges are all different and you'll never recreate what you did the first time. If we could save housing layouts the way we do glamour plates (including all our glitches, floats and tricks) that would be ideal. The fun of housing is in the decorating but moving on always means tearing down. Like if every time you wrote a novel they burned all your previous ones. But yes smalls can be great. I've never bid on anything larger and I have enough gil to buy a good part of an entire ward at this point.