Plot Reservation System Proposal

[Serendair]

• You log on the mogstation, go to additional services and choose Housing Plot Reservation.

• You choose the character you want to reserve a plot with (so the system knows if you're character has unlocked the requirements to purchase land) and the area you're interested in (Mist/Beds/Goblet) and a map for main and subdivision opens (like it would when reserving seats for a movie).

• There it shows which plots are available and you can click on those that are, to reserve them to your character. For a small fee similar to eternal bonding items or any other items you can buy in the item store you are now able to reserve a plot.

• Once a ward (main and subdivision) is booked let's say 80% they will implement this additional ward during the next maintanance. The reservers will be informed via email or ingame mail in some way.

• Booked plots will be locked for purchase to anyone else but the character who reserved it for the fee (marked with an additional symbol that yet has to be created). That plot will be reserved for the now well known 45 days. Within those the reserver can now purchase that land for the common plot price. The remaining 20% of the ward that were not booked will be free for anyone to claim.

Downside: again a first come first serve strategy where again you might not get the plot you wish for but you can always wait for the currently bookable ward to go live just to sign in for the next ward. Alternatively they could start a waiting list if certain plots are more loved than others. So you can either buy a different one if your plot of dreams is taken and you don't want to wait or you are being put on a waiting list for when the next ward comes up for reservation. And yes I do see that SE would make quite some money with that if they charge fees for it but honestly if I didn't have a house already I would be willing to pay for a reservation so I get mine with the next maintanace. And seeing that ppl are willing to pay for that eternal bonding stuff it seems alright to me. Idk if I just created a huge wall of bs or if this is a useful idea. You are to judge!

[StouterTaru]

Downside: again a first come first serve strategy

The bigger downside is that it's a convoluted system mixing in real cash with the actual solution of adding wards.

Easier solution: add those extra wards you're talking about, keep the minimum price where it is but set the starting price for the first ward at 20x the minimum. After it sells out, add another ward. Second ward added starts at the rate for the first sale from the previous ward, by server. Flipping gone, 5 minute buyout gone.