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So much for the FC luncheon we had planned on the veranda for Tuesday. That's right, we'd be the classy Frat.

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Totally intended :D

But yeah, I'm bummed but there's no real reason for outrage or anything. There's just gonna be a lot of us jealous people looking over the fence at the "haves" while we slum it at the Inn. Prices will be lowered when they expand the feature.

Edited, Dec 16th 2013 5:02pm by Louiscool

I lost 200gil on failed materia melds. And its taken a long time to get it back up. Unfortunately, my means is food making, and the prices of items I craft dropped considerably.

I can't imagine having enough gil for my FC or myself for housing.

This is group housing, which requires teamwork to get the gil. How much time it takes varies upon each FC and its members.
I think a lot of people freaked out at the pricing because they are thinking and relating to personal housing. I know for a fact raising 125mil to buy the largest plot by myself is impossible to do even if I played nonstop for the next year. But 125mil spread out among a bunch of people is hell of a lot easier to accomplish.

"But we're a smaller FC with only handful of people, we can't afford the largest house." Well no ****. That's why they came out with different size plots. If a smaller FC managed to get a large plot, well that would be impressive and they should be damned proud of achieving that goal.

"But we're a smaller FC with only handful of people, we can't afford the smallest house in a legacy server." Yeah, you guys are screwed. Sorry. But if you guys manage to purchase the smallest sized plot, then more power to you.

Wealthiest players is rather close to the mark I'd say, since there is a certain amount of competition in being able to acquire the best plots (unless SE will just open more instances every time the old ones fill up, which negates the competition aspect completely. Considering the best plots are status symbols that would be unfortunate).

Then again I don't understand why you can only choose one option in this poll. Casual players will have no problems with how easy gil is to acquire. In FFXI I couldn't buy myself a HQ anything (haubergeon, scorpion harness, all the good stuff) no matter how many hours I put in while in XIV I can just casually amass enough gil to fund a mid-sized FC house by myself.

So in the end I had to go with the last option.

Dunno if anyone suggested this yet.

Just like in real life where when you decide to buy a house, you don't buy the whole thing in cash. You put a down payment, then you pay a loan in monthly installments over the course of years.

It would be nice to have such a system in the game. You pay a down payment for the housing you want, then every week or so the server automatically takes out a specific sum from your guild bank until the full price (plus interest) is paid. If on any given week you have insufficient funds in the guild bank, your housing gets locked up until you've caught up with payments plus the late penalty. If you fail to catch up within a certain amount of time (a month?) your housing gets confiscated.

Confiscated houses are sold to other players at a discounted price.

Yeah, I suggested a mortgage in another thread. It'd have to all be automated.

One of the problems we discovered while we were starting to save for our house is that only officers can deposit money into the gil bank. By giving someone deposit access, you automatically give them withdraw access. Very poor design.

No,I was using the half price after 3 month period, assuming that the house is still available and hasn't sold, on the new servers, giving you the best benefit of the doubt in terms of pricing. Now if you're on a legacy server, it's going to take you about 5x as long. So for 1 person that would be 10 years for a medium house. For 10 people, which is what a medium is designed for, that would take them a year. That's if all 10 of them play every day and contribute every penny they make every day. FOR A YEAR. That's of course not including any of the money they'd have to spend for repairs, teleports, gear, materia, food, etc. It doesn't matter how you slice it, it's not casual. Even a small house would take a single person 2 years on a legacy server making 20k every single day. TWO YEARS.

Not to mention, even if it does only take a few months on your server... why the heck should it take a few months to gather enough money for content that is supposed to be vanity and social only at this point? It's more of a grind than anything else in the game. How does that make any sense in a game that was touted as "casual friendly"? I don't want it handed to me. Our FC has been saving since launch for it. I expected to have to pay for it. But for us to get the house we want for our large FC, it will take us YEARS at the current pricing model, even for the 5th grade large house. How is that casual?


Edited, Dec 17th 2013 11:44am by BartelX

I doubt it has been stated officially yet .. But I am curious - Will the plot size deturmine the number of eventual enhancements you can attach to it later on? Garden, Stable, Crafting Room, Airship Dock?

If people are going to sink in a sizable chunk of Gil into a small/medium plot, when the features they really want later are only available on a large plot, it would be good to know now.

If you don't want RMT in your game, don't give gil any value.

The playerbase has a decision to make. The problem is that nobody seems to get the big picture so their judgment is too hasty.

You either make gil a near meaningless currency or you deal with the consequences of gil having value (RMT and gil buyers).

But to state that one solution is soooo much better than the other is just an insult. Why is it so horrible to wish for money to be actually valuable?