House availability on Dynamis

[ShadowyZero]

DC travel takes no time. It's not hard, it's fast and one can visit with friends as long as they like. The only negatives really are not having access to mail and retainers (especially if you're an active seller who needs to undercut). Cross world link shells are thing, one does not need to be a FC member to communicate.

Taken from the direct game site itself here are some restrictions which hinder players rather than help them enjoy the game with this "visit system" i am going to prove right now its not all its cracked up to be an that we seriously need revisions or just need a new entire housing system be implemented and retire the ward system.
https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...de/worldvisit/
You cannot travel to the Firmament while outside your Home World.
Bonuses will not be applied for visiting new or preferred Worlds.
Legendary and unspoiled gathering nodes are inaccessible.
Ranked matches cannot be joined.
Deep Dungeon results will not be saved to leaderboards.
Lord of Verminion tournaments cannot be entered.
Triple Triad tournaments cannot be entered.
Cactpot tickets cannot be purchased.
Eternal Bonding quests are unavailable.
Others' ceremonies cannot be attended.
Invitations cannot be distributed.
Company credits cannot be earned.
The effects of company actions will not be applied.
Free company chat cannot be used.

[Elkanah]

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Also something to keep in mind-- once the early access releases in 5 days, the 3 dc's of Aether/Primal/Crystal will be locked for traveling. So you won't be seeing anyone from other servers anytime soon (if you want to visit the main dc's). Then youre just stuck on dynamis with no one you know lol. They havent clarified how long that lockout will be for hopping datacenters (other than dynamis). I'm guessing minimum 3-6 months after DT release

[Impia]

Also something to keep in mind-- once the early access releases in 5 days, the 3 dc's of Aether/Primal/Crystal will be locked for traveling. So you won't be seeing anyone from other servers anytime soon (if you want to visit the main dc's). Then youre just stuck on dynamis with no one you know lol. They havent clarified how long that lockout will be for hopping datacenters (other than dynamis). I'm guessing minimum 3-6 months after DT release

Counterpoint: Transferring to Dynamis got me Shiro 46 and Lav11, and my wife got a medium in the same world. If we had to be stuck for an indefinite period with strangers to do it, we'd do it again in a heartbeat.

[Elkanah]

Counterpoint: Transferring to Dynamis got me Shiro 46 and Lav11, and my wife got a medium in the same world. If we had to be stuck for an indefinite period with strangers to do it, we'd do it again in a heartbeat.

And there's nothing wrong with that! That's absolutely a viable option. However, for those transferring to Dynamis dc, these next few months will not be available to travel to the big 3 for the first couple months (and a lot of people are coming back to DT). I've never had issues with getting a house on any dc ive played in (whether that was Aether, Primal, Crystal, or Dynamis). Just have to know when to get in and get it lol

[ShadowyZero]

Also something to keep in mind-- once the early access releases in 5 days, the 3 dc's of Aether/Primal/Crystal will be locked for traveling. So you won't be seeing anyone from other servers anytime soon (if you want to visit the main dc's). Then youre just stuck on dynamis with no one you know lol. They havent clarified how long that lockout will be for hopping datacenters (other than dynamis). I'm guessing minimum 3-6 months after DT release

this^ and not to mention they are going to hard lock you from being able to purchase a house immediately so by the time you're able to even begin to start settling your feet on plot you may want and by then you're likely going to have to fight 5-10 other bidders and then hate yourself for transferring an ending up having to wait to see who was a bot/alt account abusing the system or just plain settle for a less than desirable location/plot size if you even get one at all for the first lotto round.

[Reinha]

There seems to be some misinformation here so I wanna clarify a couple of things.

Also something to keep in mind-- once the early access releases in 5 days, the 3 dc's of Aether/Primal/Crystal will be locked for traveling. So you won't be seeing anyone from other servers anytime soon (if you want to visit the main dc's). Then youre just stuck on dynamis with no one you know lol. They havent clarified how long that lockout will be for hopping datacenters (other than dynamis). I'm guessing minimum 3-6 months after DT release

Travel lock to the 3 older NA datacenters will last until patch 7.05 at the latest. That's on July 30, 4 weeks after launch when savage launches. The current estimate for lifting travel restrictions is patch 7.01, 2 weeks after launch.

this^ and not to mention they are going to hard lock you from being able to purchase a house immediately so by the time you're able to even begin to start settling your feet on plot you may want and by then you're likely going to have to fight 5-10 other bidders and then hate yourself for transferring an ending up having to wait to see who was a bot/alt account abusing the system or just plain settle for a less than desirable location/plot size if you even get one at all for the first lotto round.

There is no hard lock on being able to buy a house on the new Dynamis servers. Some houses already have bids and this can be verified in game. The current bidding cycle ends in 21 hours so people still have time to transfer if they want a private mansion with zero competition.

The only "lock" is when you make a new free company. A player has to be a member of the fc for 30 days before bidding.

[ShadowyZero]

Granted it will be a mess at the start of DT but that's a plus for a DC like Dynamis. It will get people queuing for duties instead of going elsewhere and the growth of the DC should be large with new players making characters there..

the world vist/data center hoping was only made with the idea of limiting server congestion because stormblood proved how bad it can get with overpopulation and even then it wasn't enough they still had to add in seperate instanced servers to handle the overwhelming numbers and now they've purchased more server space to host even more players in anticipation that Dawntrail is going to implode the servers which as you say will fast fill up these new worlds over the course of a week
but this is not going to solve the housing issues once all those plots fill up then what? do we just tell everyone to go back home??? do we tell them "sorry champ you didn't catch the rush" well that actually sounds familiar doesn't it? because it is we've said that in the past too and look where we are today so clearly adding more servers won't fix anything at all and you'll be back here again seeing the same complaints all over again.

[Khryseis_Astra]

but this is not going to solve the housing issues once all those plots fill up then what? do we just tell everyone to go back home??? do we tell them "sorry champ you didn't catch the rush" well that actually sounds familiar doesn't it? because it is we've said that in the past too and look where we are today so clearly adding more servers won't fix anything at all and you'll be back here again seeing the same complaints all over again.

I agree in the sense that the current system will never have enough plots for every player, let alone every player that wants them. I don’t think we need to “retire” the wards, but I do think we need an instanced system created in addition to them. There needs to be something that addresses scarcity, both of a plot in general, and of size.

But I think the point of the thread is, this is what is available now. We can campaign for improvements here, since this is where the devs tell us to put our feedback. However, as far as we know, they have no housing plans for Dawntrail beyond the item limit increase and the “mirage” which remains to be seen exactly what that will do for interiors. Which means about a couple years, give or take, before we can really expect to see any further developments in housing. If you really want a house, and don’t want to wait literally years, this is your best shot. Judging by what’s still available after the first round, not a lot of people have made the move.

Now is housing just the “carrot on the stick” to get people to spread out and fill Dynamis? Will they look at more housing ideas and improvements after they consider it filled enough? It might take awhile if that’s the criteria they’re looking at, because only 2 of Dynamis’ original 4 worlds are really “full” at this point. When they’re all more or less full, and we come back and say “now what?” I guess then we’ll find out for sure if the scarcity is on purpose!

[Khryseis_Astra]

There is no hard lock on being able to buy a house on the new Dynamis servers. Some houses already have bids and this can be verified in game. The current bidding cycle ends in 21 hours so people still have time to transfer if they want a private mansion with zero competition.

The only "lock" is when you make a new free company. A player has to be a member of the fc for 30 days before bidding.

Yep, they even opened the new servers on the first day of a bidding cycle, so people that were there day 1 could bid right away. I think they’re on their second lotto right now.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Just speculation and not to be taken seriously by anyone: they've called Cosmic Exploration the new Restoration. Is that just in the sense of it's more of a community oriented effort or is it because it will be leading up to new housing in 8.x? If the later, "cosmic" is fairly broad where the Firmament was a specific location. Could it be an instanced system more along the lines of what we've seen in other games? I don't think I will ever give up my dream of seeing RIFT Dimensions added here. That housing system in the FFXIV universe with the FFXIV graphics style would be fabulous.

Wouldn’t that be a dream? I’d be totally satisfied with an instanced plot that I could pick the background scenery (ie: neighborhood or location theme) of… anything more would make me ecstatic!