housing timer

[Jojoya]

How about, in place of a random timer, just place a public announcement in the chat window for plots available followed by a 1 hour bidding period like when you bid for items in a dungeon. Once a player bids the player is notified of the bid number also via chat window then at the end of the bidding period the winner is announced with the person's corresponding bid to all who joined the bidding, wherever they are ingame, again via chat window, and the person has 1 hour to claim the plot, otherwise the bidding will commence once again.

You mean so only the wealthiest players have a chance to buy a house instead of giving all players the chance to buy as long as they have enough gil to make the purchase?

How about no. You sound like you work for a gil seller trying to increase business.

But that just means there will be lots of empty plots ALL with random timers.

Once the free transfer period is over, anything still available will most likely already have had the timer expire so it's ready to purchase.