/notsigned

I'm fan of "the neighborhood system"/ward based design, through and through.
Honestly? I have nothing against exclusivity of it, I like it more this way. Privilege, not right. The fact that you have to work hard to get where you want to be. If SE would make instanced housing possible, I would not object it, but as long as things stay the same I'm not going to join my voice to those who lobby for instanced housing.

I too missed my chance to buy large plot today by mile- but, still, acting quick and smart, found my two FCs medium and small plots respectively. After, my FC of 4 irl friends split third of leftover money between people who wanted to try and buy private plots, and 3 of them did. Tally of the day: 1 medium and 4 small plots.
Remaining two thirds were saved for future chance to get our hands on large plot.

We are not even on some poor dead server. We used to be on Leviathan (where we had medium house as well; bought when wards 9-12 were added), but then we chose to ride the wave of free transfers to EU datacenter. 4 of us have FCs on Lousoix and Omega, the two FCs that got their halls today, and private purchases were made on those servers as well.

We are casual players, only one of us crafts seriously and one gathers, but lo and behold, no one or nothing stopped from saving the gil and taking time to try and pursue our goals for FC estates. And we are going to continue, as long as it takes to make the dreams of FC mansion reality