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RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Shoshopu - 06-05-2016

As for us, when I get off work tomorrow afternoon Arkamas and I are taking our desktops out of town to a friend with fiber-optic internet and hoping for the best. It would have taken us literally all day to download the patch from home anyway, but our internet going down Friday morning kind of sealed that deal. orz

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Momo - 06-05-2016

You could make a call that will fall on deaf ears, to have someone help you get a house? Maybe someone who isn't clamoring over your trampled body to get their second or third house would do so, but who knows? Big Grin

I think I am waiting for apartments, which seem to make more sense than getting a full house for a single person which could have been used for an FC that houses over a hundred. But hey, maybe they will want one of those on top of their second or third house, and I will be the next trampled body face down in the dirt/sand/stone?

Good luck to those who have no FC and no house to begin with!

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Lydia Lightfoot - 06-05-2016

I wouldn't worry over someone's claim that they'll be buying 7 houses. The issue on Balmung isn't gil - plenty of people have enough gil to buy houses. It's scarcity. By the time that one player gets their first house, dozens of other players will have gotten a house in the same time. Within about 20 minutes, I'm figuring all of the new wards will be more or less cleaned out. 

I'm aiming for one house. I have a plan in mind for a personal house next door to the FC house, if I get super lucky, but I'm not placing wagers on that.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Gegenji - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 08:35 PM)O'sena Rhen Wrote: I'm aiming for one house. I have a plan in mind for a personal house next door to the FC house, if I get super lucky, but I'm not placing wagers on that.
I have a total of four places picked out (two technically, but section and subsection to have it in), so hopefully I can get ONE of them. |D;;

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Edda - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 05:58 PM)Aaron Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.
Not sure if I should laugh or not, people really do that? Lmfao.
How else would I bathe in the blood of 10,000 bots?

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Aaron - 06-05-2016

(06-05-2016, 10:06 PM)Edda Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:58 PM)Aaron Wrote:
(06-05-2016, 05:24 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Biggest hint I've heard from others is to set yourself to /busy (either by typing it or having it set as a macro button to push). Apparently there are folks who will group invite or trade with you to keep you from buying a plot. Rude, I know, but it seems housing stuff is pretty cutthroat. Setting yourself to Busy should avoid that, though, and let you make the mad dash to your house of choice and buy it without that worry.
Not sure if I should laugh or not, people really do that? Lmfao.
How else would I bathe in the blood of 10,000 bots?
Yes, true. I apologize for doubting your power Blood Empress Edda!

I am not worthy ;_; please spare the not race

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Nebbs - 06-06-2016

The /busy I had not thought of, thanks.

Monk stance is a good one. Also you could sprint.

Start from a ward rather than the city or entrance, as likely to be less crowded.

Decide if you will use the local aetherite and run, or mount up and ride?

Have your backup locations picked.

If fail, check all wards as some may be dropping plots to buy new ones.

Make all officers able to purchase plots. That way you increase your chances.

And pray to the Internet gods.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Miah Gamduhla - 06-06-2016

Pray.
That's what I'll be doing.

Uh, but really... I'm going to be trying to do as much of these things as I can in order to get a house. My Eternal Bond Partner is going to try to get she and I the same plot in a different ward - so that'll help I hope.

I don't really have very high hopes of getting a house though. I don't have a great connection and I'm a PS4 player so I can't really do extreme things like installing the game on a SSD.

I'm prepared to extremely unhappy when I don't end up with a house.
Maybe the apartments won't be that bad... but we also don't know anything about them yet.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Ora Orara - 06-06-2016

Thanks for all the help everyone! I really hope I'll beable to get one soon! c:

All the luck to anyone else getting one too! Big Grin
Happy Rushing Games lol!

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Sig - 06-06-2016

Pray to whatever Gods you worship (be they the old or the new).

We'll all need it.

This is going to be a cluster of monumental proportion.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - RiniKett - 06-06-2016

*sighs* It's Eorzea Black Friday...

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Nako Vesh - 06-06-2016

It's going to be awful. I'm honestly glad I'm uninterested in getting my own house, but I really hope a lot of RPers are able to snap up the spots. The wards just seem less dead when RPers own the houses because they actually use them.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Virella - 06-06-2016

(06-06-2016, 06:02 AM)Sig Wrote: Pray to whatever Gods you worship (be they the old or the new).

We'll all need it.

This is going to be a cluster of monumental proportion.
You all need the Lord of Light for this one

Maybe try to burn your offspring, it may work

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - K'nahli - 06-06-2016

(06-05-2016, 08:35 PM)O Wrote: I wouldn't worry over someone's claim that they'll be buying 7 houses. The issue on Balmung isn't gil - plenty of people have enough gil to buy houses. It's scarcity. By the time that one player gets their first house, dozens of other players will have gotten a house in the same time. Within about 20 minutes, I'm figuring all of the new wards will be more or less cleaned out. 

I'm aiming for one house. I have a plan in mind for a personal house next door to the FC house, if I get super lucky, but I'm not placing wagers on that.

That wasn't on Balmung as far as I am aware actually, so rather I was just troubled by the mentality. After all, that's one person. He sounded quite confident in snagging that many homes so I wondered if he had made arrangements to seek out multiple simultaneously. Then account for other, like-minded people.

In any case, it's just my nerves acting up. I've been really anxious about this for the longest while, though luckily I've not had any more bad dreams about it since *laughs*   I hope I don't tonight because that would be a real twist in the wing.

RE: Housing Tips/Expectations? - Gegenji - 06-06-2016

(06-06-2016, 08:35 AM)K'nahli Wrote: In any case, it's just my nerves acting up. I've been really anxious about this for the longest while, though luckily I've not had any more bad dreams about it since *laughs*   I hope I don't tonight because that would be a real twist in the wing.
Man, I'm super-nervous about it still! Wondering if I should've practiced the run more, how many other people are gunning for the same plot(s), and other such things. Though, for some strange reason, I had a good dream about it last night... of running to the plot and there being no one there to contest it so I could buy it at my leisure... I can only hope that's a good omen. Blush