Housing (Ultimate): Duty Complete
2022-Apr-18, Monday 09:09![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A year and a half ago, I wrote about how my Free Company in FFXIV managed to acquire a house for themselves, in what's often called Housing (Savage). Well, this time we completed Housing (Ultimate)
We're moving from a small to a large, so while our old house was a sushi bar up top and a speakeasy on the bottom floor, now we have three floors, every one of which is bigger than our whole entire house was before. We also only have 400 item slots to fill the whole house--smalls get 200 items, mediums get 300 items while being over twice as big as a small, and larges get 400 while being twice as big as a medium--so we're really going to need to think about how we want to do the decorating.![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee wants to make it a museum to all the different Final Fantasies, with mannequins of their heroes. Right now, all we've done is the yard.
We got extra lucky, though, because we actually won. The FFXIV housing system is famously bad because there are only a limited number of houses--it's not instanced, they are real locations in the game world--and previously the winner was the first person who bought it, which meant that people woke up at 4 a.m. and sprinted to their house to buy it any time new houses were added. Any houses that went up for resale went up at a random time up to twenty-four hours after the original owner relinquished it, so people would spend hours clicking on the house in the hope that they would be the one to find the exact second it went on sale. That's how we got our previous house, after like twelve hours of hunting and clicking on housing placards, and we swore we would never do it again. But we did not have to, since this time the devs introduced a lottery!sashagee, ![[facebook.com profile]](https://www.facebook.com/favicon.ico)
aaron.hosek and I all put in our 50 million gil and ignored the house until the lottery results came due, where we found out that #3 had been drawn and aaron.hosek won!
Most people had a much different experience, however--when the lottery results concluded, they went to the house with hope in their hearts and found that somehow #0 had won, and when they checked the results it said that there were zero participants. This was true even for houses with only a single bid. Each ward contains thirty houses, and in our ward maybe five people actually won. The medium-sized house down the stairs from us (we're on the highest point in the district) had several members from the same Free Company standing forlornly around it as I ran back and forth to the market board, and I chatted with them a bit to discover that #0 was the winner at their plot too.
News just came today that the FFXIV team identified the bug and has the original data for who the winners were supposed to be, since it was apparently a communication error rather than an error with the actual lottery. So hopefully all the winners get their houses as intended! As for us, we have a lot of decorating to do.
We're moving from a small to a large, so while our old house was a sushi bar up top and a speakeasy on the bottom floor, now we have three floors, every one of which is bigger than our whole entire house was before. We also only have 400 item slots to fill the whole house--smalls get 200 items, mediums get 300 items while being over twice as big as a small, and larges get 400 while being twice as big as a medium--so we're really going to need to think about how we want to do the decorating.
sashagee wants to make it a museum to all the different Final Fantasies, with mannequins of their heroes. Right now, all we've done is the yard.We got extra lucky, though, because we actually won. The FFXIV housing system is famously bad because there are only a limited number of houses--it's not instanced, they are real locations in the game world--and previously the winner was the first person who bought it, which meant that people woke up at 4 a.m. and sprinted to their house to buy it any time new houses were added. Any houses that went up for resale went up at a random time up to twenty-four hours after the original owner relinquished it, so people would spend hours clicking on the house in the hope that they would be the one to find the exact second it went on sale. That's how we got our previous house, after like twelve hours of hunting and clicking on housing placards, and we swore we would never do it again. But we did not have to, since this time the devs introduced a lottery!
sashagee, Most people had a much different experience, however--when the lottery results concluded, they went to the house with hope in their hearts and found that somehow #0 had won, and when they checked the results it said that there were zero participants. This was true even for houses with only a single bid. Each ward contains thirty houses, and in our ward maybe five people actually won. The medium-sized house down the stairs from us (we're on the highest point in the district) had several members from the same Free Company standing forlornly around it as I ran back and forth to the market board, and I chatted with them a bit to discover that #0 was the winner at their plot too.
News just came today that the FFXIV team identified the bug and has the original data for who the winners were supposed to be, since it was apparently a communication error rather than an error with the actual lottery. So hopefully all the winners get their houses as intended! As for us, we have a lot of decorating to do.
