Quote Originally Posted by Gallus View Post
"You can finally get a house now, we finally figured out how! The only requirements are that the player must not sleep and get Carpal Tunnel. But hey, here's the exciting part, even if you end up with both (which you will), there's still no guarante you'll get a house!".
While I sympathize that this whole spamming torture must be awful, I feel like a lot of people here don't understand that the random timers were never meant to be a solution to the housing shortage. The random timer was a solution to house flipping which it sorta did, sorta did not as house flippers can still use relocation.

Whenever someone brings up a lottery system, someone chimes in saying that it won't fix the housing shortage. The random timer wasn't meant to fix the housing shortage and neither is the lottery system. The lottery system is meant to fix the random timer nightmare whilst still preventing house flipping.

I think having people sit there and spam plaquards for hours is a serious issue that needs to be addressed and lottery would help.

As far as housing shortage goes: since the wards have been added, there is no more housing shortage. This problem (including plaquard spamming) only exists on highly congested servers but not the game as a whole. If a house is so important that you would risk your health to get one, why not just transfer (or make an alt on another server)? That is what SE wants you to do. They want the population to be spread because congested servers cause them other issues as well. Additionally, having fewer houses then there is demand creates value in a game economy that is based on artificial supply and demand.