Months of planning, three comps logging in at same time constantly to check for login capability at "uptime", logged in to have first round of logins crash immediately, come back in with around 1000 in line. Everything was sold on Faerie within 10 minutes, 15 tops.
The bottom line is that SE is literally driving players away. My wife spent months prepping so we could "maybe" get a large plot. They knew they would have thousands of players lining up for hundreds of plots. They knew, and they didn't change anything. The largest servers run the biggest risk of driving players away, and still they do nothing to change it.
There are thousands of posts with all sorts of answers to this problem. SE just. doesn't. care.
/signing is pointless, but I'll even try the pointlessness, because I'm desperate to get a large plot. But ultimately, our family is another 3 more accounts that will be going offline once our time is up. Because SE won't change a thing.