Housing: Purchase Timer - Alternative Idea

[Penthea]

You're referring to AriesMouse's suggestions right? I'm sure they were only suggesting specifics to make the overall idea a bit more fleshed out. I agree that some of them have more favoritism than I'd like, but if you dislike favoritism shouldn't you be turning down his suggestions rather than the overall idea? There doesn't have to be favoritism in a lottery.

I dislike the favouritism they suggested and I dislike the idea of a lottery. I am intentionally turning down both.

Not trying to attack you or anything, just curious as to why you think possible suggestions you don't like about this idea warrant disapproving the idea?

Have you not read my posts? I have already said why I dislike lottery. In fact I said so quite a few times today in this thread and in another very similar one you made. At this point I have already repeated myself on this subject in two threads where you are active.

You can't use lottery to fix a problem which is already essentially lottery. The suggestion OP made would merely reduce the amount of effort needed to participate in rng. It will not fix rng. The ease of participation would make the competition for plots on highly populated servers be nuts. It's already freaking crazy whenever new wards are introduced. If you're on a highly populated server then advocating for lottery is shooting yourself in the foot.

To repeat myself from your thread:

More wards, different ward designs that allow any size house to be built on a plot, apartment expansion for more space and proper gardening (why don't we have balconies? ><), allowing fcs to use apartments, adding more tenant slots to private homes, adding tenant slots to apartments...all of these and more would reduce the problems of placard spam. Increasing accessibility to housing is how to combat it. Not by replacing one form of rng with another.

A huge reason why placard spam is a problem is because of the extreme shortage of housing. If you're not fussy about size and location placard spam is merely a mild annoyance most of the time on my server because the population isn't so bloated that all the wards are constantly full. I just counted over 30 unclaimed plots in the Goblet. Shirogane is the only residential district that is full. The placard locking people out of purchase is usually only a delay rather than a road block filled with stress and competition from spam clicking. Housing shortage is what makes placard spam so bloody awful. Therefore tackling the shortage is the most logical way to reduce the problem.

I appreciate that you and OP want to make the housing situation better, but I strongly feel that lottery is a terrible way to do it. There are other and better solutions that won't force players to completely rely on pure luck.

[Ittapupu_Berry]

If you're not fussy about size and location placard spam is merely a mild annoyance most of the time on my server because the population isn't so bloated that all the wards are constantly full. I just counted over 30 unclaimed plots in the Goblet. Shirogane is the only residential district that is full. The placard locking people out of purchase is usually only a delay rather than a road block filled with stress and competition from spam clicking.

That's very fortunate for your server, however on highly populated servers there tends to be no plots available. Even the Goblet. Goblet is completely full like the others. And just like every other residential area, if a plot is open, at least 3 people are there spamming a card with you for hours on end.

At least there's nice people on Levi, made a few friends while we deprived ourselves of food and sleep. It wasn't a delay as much as it was a brain frying ordeal.