Post your housing lottery result for this 6.3 1st round!

I'll always be baffled at how Island Sanctuary can be implemented, but woe betide instanced housing becoming a thing. I hope it can be considered, because I don't pay a monthly sub to be regularly disappointed. I'm happy for all the individuals who got what they wanted - I unfortunately didn't make the cut.

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

It's anecdotal though.

We don't know the actual numbers on this.

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Likely there are far more people happy with their luck that they got a plot and are done with it.

Other people get on the forums when they have something to gripe about the game, watch the current drama, or just want to vent.
Unhappy folks are the loudest and such, thus easier to remember those momens than the good ones you had.

Edit: Here, to give out some good vibes.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...8HTxGTCwI3.png

I lost against the last minute bidders. AGAIN
fck 9 months of lifespan to cycle every 9 days into a lottery just to get depression for free. Thx Square. I hate you too by now. Give me my Time back, wasted on this shit.
I'd rather fight bots and trolls on the plakard than this pandemic virus of a system.

They need to change it where lottery ticket isn't the price of the housing plot. That way can enter more than once and have a better chance winning a plot.

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Originally Posted by OperaMorgana

i know its rng...BUT there must be a pattern here....all these losses to the last minute bid

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It's called fishing for best odds. Anyone that wants the best odds at getting a house /certain plot should 10,000% be doing it. The pattern is that these people are playing the game of lottery optimally.

Placing a bid early leaves you completely wide open to an unknown, infinite number of bids coming in across the week. Doing the bid at the last moments means you get to find the plot you want with the lowest numbers and thus increase your odds. As a result, you'll hear more of these stories since by playing the statistical odds optimally, they're more likely to succeed.

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Originally Posted by ninichu

I was single bidder up until yesterday. There were several plots with zero bids available, but someone just had to bid on the same as mine. Of course I lost.

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Unfortunately, there being 0 bid plots doesn't help. If someone wants a particular plot, they'll bid on it regardless if there's 0 bid options even right next door.
There may have also just been the rush of last minute bidders filling up those zero plot bids, and yours now either had the lowest number / all plots were tied so they picked yours.

As for the topic, my friend managed to snag the small she wanted in the same ward as me after the plot opened up last cycle, so we're quite happy with that.

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Originally Posted by -Teria-

I hate this system and wish they'd release just one free for all ward the next time they do this lottery crap. I'd feel less terrible about being too slow to get to a house before someone else bolts for it as opposed to sitting here for 5 days stewing over a bid only to have some last minute jerkface show up and clinch it.

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Originally Posted by Zsolen

Weren't we supposed to have non-lottery also?

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FCFS was supposed to still be an option but I guess we who want it are in the minority. People love their RNG. Well, at least there are the fc-only wards where one's effort pays off. :)

Maybe I'm thinking too much into this, but everyone's losses is against last minute bidders. Isn't that strange? Seems like the systems favors last minute bidders more than 70% of the time. I was number 1 in lottery, yet I lost against number 8, who was a last minute bidder along with 9.

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Originally Posted by Johners

Lost against the only other bidder in a ward where half the other smalls had no bids... now to wait until January 29th for the next results period. Fuck I hate this shit, just turn wards into instnaced housing, please.

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Same. I specifically bid on a plot that had no bidders and of course someone had to go for mine even though there are tons of no bid plots. Lost in a 50/50. Been trying to get a house for YEARS have spent many 24 hour nights awake. Happy I didn’t have to do that this time… but…. I’m sad. I wish they had instanced housing so bad.

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Originally Posted by Lucinda

I'll always be baffled at how Island Sanctuary can be implemented, but woe betide instanced housing becoming a thing. I hope it can be considered, because I don't pay a monthly sub to be regularly disappointed. I'm happy for all the individuals who got what they wanted - I unfortunately didn't make the cut.

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Well part of the problem is YoshiP operates under the delusion of living neighborhoods. He wants this system to be where people are walking around in the wards and seeing other people and looking at all the houses.

Meanwhile in reality the wards are dead zones, the only people outside are either going to a house to go inside or going to a market board and then going back inside or leaving the zone.

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Originally Posted by Rehayem

Maybe I'm thinking too much into this, but everyone's losses is against last minute bidders. Isn't that strange? Seems like the systems favors last minute bidders more than 70% of the time. I was number 1 in lottery, yet I lost against number 8, who was a last minute bidder along with 9.

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I am saying this - There is a mod/plugin that certain discord channels/servers use that keep people updated on the states of plots throughout the wards. Though I am not sure if that also mentions the amount of bids the plots have when they are open for the lottery.

Just food for thought of which lengths people go for this.