Gamers trying to purchase a brand new home in Remaining Fantasy XIV’s newest replace have been operating right into a bug with the brand new lottery system which has triggered them to overlook out on their desired property – even in instances the place they have been the one bidder. The MMO recreation’s producer and director Naoki Yoshida wrote a quick publish addressing the state of affairs on Saturday, however has now additional clarified the state of affairs in an extended write-up.
In his preliminary announcement, Yoshida mentioned that “there are various patterns concerned for the lottery circumstances” which triggered some hypothesis about whether or not there was some hidden complexity to figuring out the lottery final result. Within the follow-up publish, Yoshida clarifies that the patterns he spoke of refer particularly to the entry circumstances, and that the precise lottery itself makes use of a easy randomisation technique.
Yoshida says that the crew has the lottery knowledge, and that it’s attainable for them to verify the standing of entry functions by database server logs. They’re utilizing these to make sure that gamers won’t be negatively affected in the event that they accepted the refund of their gil deposit provided after shedding a lottery which suffered from one of many aforementioned points.
The three major points presently occurring are lotteries that have been correctly performed however show the successful quantity as 0 (which no-one can declare, inflicting no winner to be displayed), lotteries with a single entrant which show that there have been no entrants, and instances the place no winner is decided regardless of entries being made by a number of mates or free firm members.
Immediately’s publish additionally affords a way more detailed breakdown into the specifics of the housing lottery system and the way entrants are decided. It particulars circumstances resembling taking a look at whether or not a participant already owns property on different characters on the identical service account, through which case a second character on that account can not apply for a lottery entry except in addition they already personal a plot of land.
In the intervening time, the housing lotteries are on maintain. Within the meantime, there’s nonetheless loads of different new issues to discover in FFXIV patch 6.1 – together with a helpful new auto-target possibility to enhance basic high quality of life. You can even take part with the present FFXIV Hatching-tide 2022 occasion festivities, which fairly actually give you an egg on this attempting time.
