Housing Tips/Expectations?

[Kilieit]

And now I'm really worried about the /busy thing. I didn't set up a macro for it and I know that the time I take to type is out is time that I won't be able to run to the plot I want.

 

Do you know your auto-run keybind?

 

Though I imagine if you're on a console, the type of multitasking required to run and type or open your searchinfo menu at the same time is gonna be pretty difficult...

[Aaron]

It's not that hard to do at all honesty, I've done it before. A controller ain't that difficult to multitask with.

[Warren Castille]

And now I'm really worried about the /busy thing. I didn't set up a macro for it and I know that the time I take to type is out is time that I won't be able to run to the plot I want.

 

Do you know your auto-run keybind?

 

Though I imagine if you're on a console, the type of multitasking required to run and type or open your searchinfo menu at the same time is gonna be pretty difficult...

 

Begin moving. Press left bumper / L1. Enjoy free movement!

[Kilieit]

Awesome (genuinely). There you go, then! And now I know what to do if I ever start playing on a console. ;D

[Branson Thorne]

I wonder who many players/FCs that had sold their plots ahead of time for this, are going to go homeless now.

 

Or perhaps, how many of them are regretting that decision as the housing hype continues to build.

 

You can almost feel the frenzy in the air.....

[Delilah Scythewood]

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.

That's what I was told. I'm not going to risk it, personally. I want this hoose. :<

It's not a joke.

 

PEOPLE WILL REALLY DO THIS ^^^^

 

SET YOUR STATUS TO 'BUSY' WHEN YOU GO TO BUY A HOUSE OR PEOPLE WILL DO THIS.

Sorry for the huge text but it's something I've seen screw over my friends.

[GhostlyMaiden]

I forgot to log out in a ward.

Welp.

Maybe i'll be lucky

(But most likely not)

 

*nervous laughter*

[Cassandra]

I certainly wont be quitting over not getting a house, but I'll be really sad. I mean, like a lot of people here I've been working hard and saving my gil for a really long time in order to have a place of my own that isn't connected to my FC.

 

What made SE implement housing in this way? I'll never understand. Its terrible.

 

 

And now I'm really worried about the /busy thing. I didn't set up a macro for it and I know that the time I take to type is out is time that I won't be able to run to the plot I want.

 

My going theory is cost. We know FFXIV has essentially funded both FFXV and FFVII: Remake in one manner or another. Therefore, the dev team for FFXIV would only have a very limited budget and implementing instanced housing would require a massive infrastructure and resources better allocated to new raids, dungeons or other such content.

 

That being said, the original intent had been to build a community-- a flawed designed from the get go. You can't have a hub consist of only thirty people. If they wanted that, then they should have split FC and Personal housing and made less wards but increase the lot space of each to accommodate. Imagine we were getting only a single ward, however it had all 240 plots. Doing so might have fostered the whole community feel. Otherwise, why not just hang around Ul'Dah or Idyllshire?

[Edda]

Can fix the housing problem easily. Just make the housing wards open PvP zones and if you kill the owner of a house you take their plot as a prize. Encourages community interaction and gives everyone a fair shot at obtaining a house. Watch out for roving FC gank bands!

[Lydia Lightfoot]

Can fix the housing problem easily. Just make the housing wards open PvP zones and if you kill the owner of a house you take their plot as a prize. Encourages community interaction and gives everyone a fair shot at obtaining a house. Watch out for roving FC gank bands!

 

ArcheAge.

 

Well, not exactly. But close enough, considering people can hit you with AOE attacks through the wall of your house.

[Aaron]

Can fix the housing problem easily. Just make the housing wards open PvP zones and if you kill the owner of a house you take their plot as a prize. Encourages community interaction and gives everyone a fair shot at obtaining a house. Watch out for roving FC gank bands!

[Gabineaux]

Can fix the housing problem easily. Just make the housing wards open PvP zones and if you kill the owner of a house you take their plot as a prize. Encourages community interaction and gives everyone a fair shot at obtaining a house. Watch out for roving FC gank bands!

 

I could buy any house I want with my WHM abilities, given there's no item sync it would be very difficult to kill me. LOL, even if there was. REPOSE. REPOSE. REPOSE.

[siclest]

So with how I figure it will be I had to go back and rewatch a movie a felt would most likely sum up when the servers go up... may as well share the scene that came to mind.

 

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[Edda]

Can fix the housing problem easily. Just make the housing wards open PvP zones and if you kill the owner of a house you take their plot as a prize. Encourages community interaction and gives everyone a fair shot at obtaining a house. Watch out for roving FC gank bands!

 

I could buy any house I want with my WHM abilities, given there's no item sync it would be very difficult to kill me. LOL, even if there was. REPOSE. REPOSE. REPOSE.

Sorry, not in My American Housing Wards. i180 item level sync, usual PvP rules apply with shortened debuff and buff durations. Return and Teleport would be disabled, no more mounts... no more sprint. No items. Fox only. Final Destination.

[Aaron]

I'd legit start trying to get a house if that ever actually happens.

 

Would level SMN solely to just DoT all you fuckers.