Implement a lottery for house plots

[Gun-Cat]

Why does it have to be fair? and what is not fair about it in the first place? You put in the effort and you get the reward, everyone has the same opportunity to log on early or stalk out the maintenance.

I am all for an effort/reward system. But as it stands it is just as much a lottery getting into the server first than it is doing an actual lottery. If you are one second off you are stuck in a 500 queue and you can kiss the plots goodbye on the more populated servers.

If you really wanted to reward people who worked hard, it should be a 24 hour auction, with potential buyers being able to bid whatever they want for each plot. That way people who worked hard and got a lot of money can get what they want and people with less will have to settle for a less desirable plot. That would be the fairest system I could imagine* and would help fend of Gil inflation.

*under the pretext that plots will be kept in limited supply.

[NolLacnala]

24 hour auction

Gil sellers invalidate auctions and bidding.

[KisaiTenshi]

Gil sellers invalidate auctions and bidding.

Bingo.

The only "fair" way to deal with housing is to get rid of the housing entirely and just give everyone instanced apartments that they can expand with cash shop money. That's not very fun though. Giving everyone a "house" instance likewise doesn't give players any ability to explore the housing area because the instance switching takes forever.

The alternative requires a sort of Minecraft/Landmark solution where you simply get a large housing "area" and you claim a chunk of land (to place your house "instance", which all editing takes place in the instance except when outside) and when all the land is used up, another housing instance pops up. Unfortunately it's not a solution to bots and RMT jacking entire instances.

Basically no game has ever solved the housing problem and it's unlikely that it can be solved without identity tokens attached to all users.