Remove Lottery [POLL]

2.) Keep Lottery

The lottery system sucks but the previous solutions to acquire ward housing suck even more.

Would take lottery over placard clicking bots and 24/7 ward scanning bots who near instantly relocate into mediums/larges.

Ultimately, the limited ward housing system is not a long-term scalable solution. It's not capable of adequately dealing with increasing server populations.

Possible solutions that players have suggested over the years which can be implemented together:

1. Keep the existing ward housing but work towards a new fully instanced housing solution.

2. Let us upgrade apartments for gil to penthouses or make Island Sanctuary a viable alternative to ward housing.

That way players who just want a house can go the fully instanced route and those who want to fight it out for 'exclusive/flex' ward houses, can do so.

Remove lottery.

Go back to being able to buy a house as soon as someone vacates the property and it's your the moment you hot accept and hand over the gil.

It has it's problems but hours of clicking or hoping to get lucky is worse.

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Lottery wasn't designed to solve the housing shortage. It was designed to solve the "spam placard for 12-24 hours" problem. And it did just that. How many players camped a plot for 24 hours non-stop clicking placards when the lottery started?

Zero.

It worked and now that they might have resolved the winner 0 bug, it looks like a success. The housing shortage is a different problem entirely not related to the lottery.

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And change it so that you can put in only one ticket once a year. The Forum needs more entertainment :D

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2 but it needs adjustments.

Atm, the delays to bid and collect are way too long. It went from an extreme where people would have to click for hours and, with all the bots and competition, if they didn’t click a panel with an invisible timer at the exact second a house became available, they wouldn’t get the house. Now, the cycles are super slow. A maximum of 2 days to bid, 2 days to collect would be more appropriate and more dynamic.

The allocation of private and fc wards is ridiculous. We got a big house for the fc and we were the only bidders. The ward is a ghost town. In the meantime, private housing wards are almost completely full with only a few small plots available. The minimum number of bids on a medium was 9 on our server. Most small had 3-4 bids though there were some withy a lot more and a few with less. Private housing will become even scarcer as players who own houses in wards 1-18 in other cities can bid without any risk on another house. If they win, the original plot is freed but it can no longer be available for private housing. It makes no sense. This, combined with the long cycles will affect the market for decos.

Offering penthouses with a small garden space would be great. Atm the apartments and fc rooms are very small (even worse if you cover the original walls with partition) and have annoying limitations.

2 without any hesitation. I'm even surprised anyone would prefer the old system. It was worse in every way possible.

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Originally Posted by dspguy

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Lottery wasn't designed to solve the housing shortage. It was designed to solve the "spam placard for 12-24 hours" problem. And it did just that. How many players camped a plot for 24 hours non-stop clicking placards when the lottery started?

Zero.

It worked and now that they might have resolved the winner 0 bug, it looks like a success. The housing shortage is a different problem entirely not related to the lottery.

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Aye but how do you know it’s honest random given that true random does not exist in any programming. Fact is the more active and aged the account the more likely you will win. Giving to a new untested account would be a horrible waste.

Perhaps a bid auction instead? He/she willing to pay the most wins which also removes currency from circulation

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Originally Posted by VictorTheed

Remove lottery.

Go back to being able to buy a house as soon as someone vacates the property and it's your the moment you hot accept and hand over the gil.

It has it's problems but hours of clicking or hoping to get lucky is worse.

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No thanks, this would only lead to bots snatching up all the plots for reselling again since they are always online 24/7 and can teleport hack to get to the house before any human players can even zone into the ward.

Given a binary choice, it has to be -

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However, I'd much rather see the present system kept and fully instanced houses developed alongside so we have a choice. I don't care about seeing my neighbours because it's such a rare event so I would be very happy with an instanced house as long as it was decoupled from the timer.

The present systems sucks. It sucks less than what we had before, but not by much. It's time the devs stopped clinging to this idea of neighbourhoods and just implemented a system where the supply of houses actually has a chance of meeting demand.