Implement a lottery for house plots

[Vahlnir]

I am not saying it is the best idea but you assume an awful lot

I think people have assumed correctly and reached a general consensus: this is a bad idea.

[NolLacnala]

24 hour auction

Gil sellers invalidate auctions and bidding.

[Krotoan]

I think this does nothing to solve the actual housing problem: people get left out.
the only thing it will solve is it flattens the chances to random for every initial release of housing. Unless ALL house purchases are lotteries, in which case you're going to have some poor shmuck who has the worst luck and NEVER gets a house even though they've been there for every house available.
We need a solution that gives EVERYONE access to the gaming features the houses provide. I think all this would do would be to frustrate MORE people instead of less.
RNG-sus is not kind to some of us and we refuse to bow to him.

[Niraves]

The last thing we need is RNG housing plots. In the pantheon of dumb ideas, this is quite possibly the dumbest one yet. Except maybe the Shake Weight.

[TitaniaYaerem]

I really feel they should have some wards set aside for FC housing only and then the rest of the wards for personal housing.

[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.

[ElazulHP]

Lotto system isn't going to help the actual problem. That there isn't enough housing for the amount of players that want housing. Adding another set of Wards to all districts would probably be what is needed.

[Clover_Blake]

I support the more plots idea. Or at least add more to the most crowded servers, based on each server's population. I understand some servers might still have empty wards, so SE could simply not bother with these.
I don't know how hard it is to implement more wards in just some chosen servers, but considering that housing prices used to be different server-wise, I imagine it can't be too hard.

Housing is a problem, and it is creating a lot of frustration, indeed.

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.

I admit I wouldn't like this solution ;_;
I own a house in Lavender Beds and I love my neighbourhood, it makes me feel like I actually live in such a place (also, my neighbour up the hill has a very nice Paissa house that I always stare at from my garden).
Losing that all would be heartbreaking.

[Penthea]

Lotto system isn't going to help the actual problem. That there isn't enough housing for the amount of players that want housing. Adding another set of Wards to all districts would probably be what is needed.

OP seems to want to target house flippers who greatly abuse the current system. Well his suggestion would replace one problem with another. Lottery would eliminate house flipping but it also means people who only have a vague interest in owning a house have equal chance to those who want it more than anything. The housing salt would increase tenfold. This lottery ignores the real problem; severe lack of plots.

Any suggestion that only adds restrictions is only going to make housing worse. OP's idea only adds restrictions.

[Aldotsk]

This is the reason why Gotham er I mean FFXIV community loses their minds thinking something like this.

I am pretty sure YoshiP is just laughing reading people's feedbacks.