The race to get the ideal plot is indeed an uncomfortable one. I stayed up all night to snag my FC's plot as soon as the servers went up... and I'm glad I did. Three mediums in ward 6 of the lavender beds were taken within an hour of the servers being up (one by me). I was the first person to get a house, but only because someone told me that the servers went up almost two hours earlier than they were supposed to... 5am my time as opposed to 7am. I would have been really disappointed if I had woken up the next day and the best plots were gone. As of now (almost three days after the patch went live), the new ward for lavender beds seems about half full. I haven't checked the other areas.

I do hope they'll be introducing more wards in the future, so the desire to get a plot isn't halted by the lack of available housing. My FC found it really hard to be patient for all the months every medium was gone on my server and we were waiting on the sixth wards (2.3). At the same time, I do understand that there needs to be some exclusivity to which plots are available. (We do pay more money for 'prime real estate' after all.) I just think they should release new wards more frequently. Hopefully the wait for ward 7 won't be as long as the wait between the original wards and ward 6.