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FC housing and a Roleplaying Neighbourhood


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So my understanding of FC housing is that it happens in instanced neighbourhoods. It'd be awesome if we could get some roleplaying guilds together as neighbours, but to do that will naturally require some co-ordination, because it's first-come-first-serve.

 

This thread is to try to co-ordinate that!

Gilgamesh folks, head over here!

 

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So here's the deal: If your FC is in the market for a house and you want to help make an RP neighbourhood, here's what you have to do:

 

  1. Fill out the short form in this thread and post here.
  2. Scan the thread for people you'd like to be neighbours with - post about it!
  3. DON'T buy housing until a purchase date for your group has been selected from the thread!

Once FCs start posting here, I'll update a list grouped by location and desired purchase time. FCs can co-ordinate among themselves and ideally we'll wind up with a bunch of housing purchase times that'll give us a big ol' neighbourhood of RPers.

 

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FC Name: Your company's name.

Location: Will your company be buying housing in The Goblet, Mist, or Lavender Beds?

Active Periods: When is your FC most active? This is optional, but will help people decide who will make good neighbourhoods!

Desired Purchase Date/Time: Because FCs will have to buy houses one after another, everyone in your housing group will have to do it together. When is a good time for your FC to do this?

Looking for: What do you look for in a neighbour? Here's where to list any FCs you'd like to share an instance with, if you already have some in mind.

Contact: Who should people get in touch with to talk about becoming a neighbour to your FC?

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FC Name:  Lansquenet

Location:  We'll decide after we get a better look at the areas, but we are leaning towards Lavender Beds for IC reasons.

Active Periods:  Usually anywhere from 5-12PM EST.

Desired Purchase Date/Time:  Two or three days after the patch hits, when we've had enough time to look around and decide between the three housing areas.  This is, of course, assuming housing does not cost a prohibitive amount at launch.

Looking For:  Medium to Heavy RPers. Anyone that might get a kick out being in the same neighborhood with performance/con artists. It would be nice to find a rival free company, lawmen and guards and the like, to have a kind of back-and-forth thing.  Other criminals, obviously. 

Contact:  Any of our members would likely do.

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Wonderful thread idea. I was just speaking with my company leader about hoping that the RP guilds would band together and we could get as many neighbors as possible. I was a bit worried that people would RP more in their free company area housing and not out in the world, but this would solve all of my fears.

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Wonderful thread idea. I was just speaking with my company leader about hoping that the RP guilds would band together and we could get as many neighbors as possible. I was a bit worried that people would RP more in their free company area housing and not out in the world, but this would solve all of my fears.

I have a small, niggling worry of that as well, but I don't think open world RP will die, and having pure RP housing neighborhoods is too good a thing to pass up.

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It was pointed out to me that it's a bidding system.  :-\  With a time period.  So anyone who wants to troll/interfere can ruin the entire thing.

 

I'm really hoping that they have a minimum bid system, and perhaps a "buyout" option for a high price to stop just this... some arse running about adding one gil to land spots all wheel of fortune style would be a pain.

 

That and maybe a way to "watch" a property, an ingame notification like the mail to update you when some one bids on a plot that you've been looking for? Hrm..

 

Also (since I was told I could go ahead and post on behalf of the group):

FC Name: The OS&R

Location: The Lavender Beds (I wanted the Goblet, Q_Q) Idealy a large plot, a lot has been saved.

Active Periods: 6pm EST - to Late, some "day time" players

Desired Purchase Date/Time: ASAP, have the day of patch booked off

Looking for: No one in particular, a merchant group would be nice.

Contact: <---

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It was pointed out to me that it's a bidding system.  :-\  With a time period.  So anyone who wants to troll/interfere can ruin the entire thing.

 

If I'm remembering correctly, the bidding will work in reverse. It'll start off at a high price and then gradually get lower until someone's willing to pay that price.

 

Which does mean we may need to be willing to pay the higher prices to get everyone into the same neighbourhood, but at the same time it means that people can't troll/interfere by artificially raising prices. The only thing they could do is pay a premium to get their FC house into an area where they probably don't actually want it to be, and I don't think even the most dedicated trolls are that dedicated.

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FC Name: Night Blades

Location: Mist - please note we will be buying at the same time as our alliance guild The Grim Echo so please consider them as well :)

Active Periods: Always, mostly in the evening, but definitely all day.

Desired Purchase Date/Time: ASAP. We may or may not have enough as soon as the patch hits (We'll know when they release prices) but we have plenty of gil for this.

Looking for: The big thing we are doing is being neighbors with the Grim Echo, other than that I don't really care so long as you'er roleplayers ;o. Please note we are going to try for the largest land in the instance.

Contact: Armi Alliando/Loki Aethertide aka ME

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FC Name: Aethereal Warriors

Location: The Mist

Active Periods: 8:00pm until 1:00am Eastern Time

Desired Purchase Date/Time: Any time after 9:00pm should be fine.

Looking for: We are a hodgepodge adventurer group that stars mainly miqo'te, as it were. Not intentional, by the way! xD I think we'd get along with pretty much anyone, save for high brow noble houses, or something. Though, that would be interesting. ;D

Contact: Either Lutra or Xerali

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It was pointed out to me that it's a bidding system.  :-\  With a time period.  So anyone who wants to troll/interfere can ruin the entire thing.

 

If I'm remembering correctly, the bidding will work in reverse. It'll start off at a high price and then gradually get lower until someone's willing to pay that price.

 

Which does mean we may need to be willing to pay the higher prices to get everyone into the same neighbourhood, but at the same time it means that people can't troll/interfere by artificially raising prices. The only thing they could do is pay a premium to get their FC house into an area where they probably don't actually want it to be, and I don't think even the most dedicated trolls are that dedicated.

Ah! Thank you! I had forgotten about that. I think they said the price would fall every 8 hours or something, right?

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FC Name: Dark Embers

Location: Mist

Active Periods: 3 PM EST - 2 AM EST

Desired Purchase Date/Time: This is sort of a trick question, given that we don't know how much houses are going to cost. We're hoping to get the large house for our FC, but we only have about 1.5 million gil at the moment. We might get 2 million before the patch is out. We're going to wait until we can afford a large house, so if we can do that immediately after the patch, we're buying the house immediately after the patch; if not, we're waiting till we can afford it.

 

Should we be buying it on the day the patch hits, I will be logging in the moment the server comes up and putting in our bid.

Looking for: We're recently reforged and setting up, and really have no set preferences on what FCs we'd prefer to have as neighbours. Mostly, the idea of RP neighbourhoods appeals because a few of us saw it work well with Aion's housing ages ago, and we're hoping to see it happen here.

Contact: Claire Brea/Kym'a Thavma, N'aomai Tierell, Atticus

 

 

I am kinda worried about how this is going to go with the auction system, however that's how Aion did their housing system when they brought it out, and for the more part, we did end up with a lot of RPers getting into one area of the town sections they had set up. Their housing wasn't exactly instanced the same way though, so it's a bit more of a toss up here. Well worth the try though!

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FC Name:The Hungry Wolf

Location: Most likely the Lavender Beds

Active Periods: Most active 8pm - 3/4am EST

Desired Purchase Date/Time: ASAP

Looking for: Nothing specific. We're a mercenary troupe that hires out of Gridania.

Contact: Shizu Ayana (alt, Firo Elburn)

 

We'd love to get in on this, hopefully it all works out!

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FC Name: Black Lotus Cartel

Location: Mist

Active Periods: We're primarily made up of working folks so weekday evenings about 7pm EST to Midnight EST and all day on weekends/holidays

Desired Purchase Date/Time: Honestly?  Probably a week after it's been out.  We're still saving up and I'd like to give a little time for initial bugs to be worked out.

Looking for: Whomever wouldn't mind being our neighbor. *laughs*  Ideally I think it would be great to have a good mix of groups around ours.

Contact: Anais Fleurdevide or Obsidian Hornet

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Not sure how many people have read the new letter that was released today. Here's the estimated STARTING Prices for land on Balmung server.

 

Small 20,000,000 -25,000,000

Medium 75,000,000 -93,750,000

Large 250,000,000 -12,500,000

Balmung

 

I know my FC, Equilibrium, will now be waiting quite a bit longer than originally expected, just wondering if these prices change anything else for some of the other FCs on timelines of when they would be getting their houses.

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Will the price drop max out at 50%?  Or does it get added onto the potential 360 x 14% reduction every six hours?  There's a lot of questions that need answering.

 

But it's safe to say that Lansquenet will be holding up for a fair bit until prices become more affordable.  Balmung is a legacy server, and while there might be certain groups out there with the ability to afford it, as recent transfers, we certainly will not be able to.

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Will the price drop max out at 50%?  Or does it get added onto the potential 360 x 14% reduction every six hours?  There's a lot of questions that need answering.

 

But it's safe to say that Lansquenet will be holding up for a fair bit until prices become more affordable.  Balmung is a legacy server, and while there might be certain groups out there with the ability to afford it, as recent transfers, we certainly will not be able to.

 

They very specifically said that it will drop 14% every six real-world hours, but will max out (in terms of how far it drops) at -50% after 90 days.

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