Lottery Bug?

[Starien]

For those just tuning in, here is the official current housing guide (last updated Jan 2023)

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/

The relevant bit here is this:

You may only purchase and maintain one private plot and one free company plot per World per service account.

Maintaining a free company plot means that the character who originally purchased the plot exists in the free company who currently uses the plot.

There are cases where a character may exist in a free company, purchase a plot, and then leave the free company. This feature ensures that they may be able to purchase a plot for another free company down the road.

This may indeed result in a player having characters/alts on the same service account, each of whom occupies a free company that has a housing plot. However, the purchaser restriction still exists. Work around that as you need to. There are hundreds of FC-only plots available to anyone who desires one across various worlds.

[Elevin]

For those just tuning in, here is the official current housing guide (last updated Jan 2023)

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../housing_land/

The relevant bit here is this:



Maintaining a free company plot means that the character who originally purchased the plot exists in the free company who currently uses the plot.

There are cases where a character may exist in a free company, purchase a plot, and then leave the free company. This feature ensures that they may be able to purchase a plot for another free company down the road.

This may indeed result in a player having characters/alts on the same service account, each of whom occupies a free company that has a housing plot. However, the purchaser restriction still exists. Work around that as you need to. There are hundreds of FC-only plots available to anyone who desires one across various worlds.

the relevant bit doesn't even make sense. How does a random FC member maintain a free company plot? The language used doesn't make sense on any level. How does that translate to "The FC member who wins on an FC plot will be unable to bid on another FC plot on a different character on their world whilst still in the FC they won the plot for."

"Maintain" is completely wrong in the context of an FC as that could mean anything since FC plots are essentially collectively purchased most of the time even though there is one winner, the FC overall wins the plot. But said member of the FC who won may not have any control over the FC, not even being able to enter the house ironically...but can still win it. So "maintaining" a plot is completely wrong in this instance. The dictionary definition of maintain doesn't correspond with what any of this line is supposed to mean.

The restriction is ridiculous as it does nothing to stop me from filling up my account with FC plots All it does is screw over random FC members who bid and win an FC plot for their FC and want to do something on an alt.

Devs/translators need to stop trying to sound smart, pick up a dictionary and speak plainly because what they said is completely wrong and nonsensical when it comes to what it actually means in English and what it actually is in practice.