I spent five hours interacting with a placard today.
I thought for a little while this would finally be my chance, because aside from one other person stopping by to click with me for a little while, no one else was there. Five hours.
After the five hours, when the RNG still didn't allow the house to be sold, some random person walked up and relocated their home.
After five hours.
This is now the fourth time something similar has happened, but this five hours is the longest I've spent in one sitting, trying to buy a house.
I accept that the system is broken, and that there are certain things that need to be done in order to make what currently exists work, at least somewhat, in theory. But allowing someone to relocate instantly, just because they are already inside the broken system, does not make it right.
In total, I have now wasted several days' worth of hours trying to buy a house. Probably not very much to some players, but there it is. If someone else who had been there clicking managed to buy it, I would have been disappointed, but at least the system worked for someone.
Here's a couple of suggestions:
1. Change the current relocation system. If a player has a plot and wants to move, they must purchase the new plot under the same system as the players who do not already own one. All their stuff can still show up just as it was on the old plot, instantly, but they still have to play the same waiting game as everyone else.
2. Do away with relocation entirely. Don't like your plot? Sorry. If you want to move, you have to sell the existing plot first.
Personally I prefer the second option, because that would probably free up quite a few plots while the pickier players wait for their "dream plots" to open up.
The best suggestion, of course, is to redesign housing entirely. I understand that the "vision" of player housing in FFXIV has led to this utterly broken system and it is not easily fixed, but that can no longer be an excuse.
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I thought for a little while this would finally be my chance, because aside from one other person stopping by to click with me for a little while, no one else was there. Five hours.
After the five hours, when the RNG still didn't allow the house to be sold, some random person walked up and relocated their home.
After five hours.
This is now the fourth time something similar has happened, but this five hours is the longest I've spent in one sitting, trying to buy a house.
I accept that the system is broken, and that there are certain things that need to be done in order to make what currently exists work, at least somewhat, in theory. But allowing someone to relocate instantly, just because they are already inside the broken system, does not make it right.
In total, I have now wasted several days' worth of hours trying to buy a house. Probably not very much to some players, but there it is. If someone else who had been there clicking managed to buy it, I would have been disappointed, but at least the system worked for someone.
Here's a couple of suggestions:
1. Change the current relocation system. If a player has a plot and wants to move, they must purchase the new plot under the same system as the players who do not already own one. All their stuff can still show up just as it was on the old plot, instantly, but they still have to play the same waiting game as everyone else.
2. Do away with relocation entirely. Don't like your plot? Sorry. If you want to move, you have to sell the existing plot first.
Personally I prefer the second option, because that would probably free up quite a few plots while the pickier players wait for their "dream plots" to open up.
The best suggestion, of course, is to redesign housing entirely. I understand that the "vision" of player housing in FFXIV has led to this utterly broken system and it is not easily fixed, but that can no longer be an excuse.
Continue reading...