The current system was designed to stop people from selling plots directly to other players, though this only works to cut out first time buyers as someone that wants to relocate can still grab it right away.

In that sense I support it, but I think a better system could be put in place. One idea, and I don't take credit for this I read it from another post a while back, was a lottery system. When a plot opens up, anyone that wants the plot pays the prices of the plot. After a set amount of time, one person is chosen at random and receives the plot. The others are refunded their gil to try again on another plot.

This would require removing the ability to transfer into plots before the timer is up, transfers would need to be put into the lottery pool.

This would make it so that you can't directly sell plots to other players, which SE doesn't want happening, while also taking away the advantage people with autoclicker bots have in getting plots. And also means people aiming for a plot don't have to camp the plot for potentiality hours on end to be there when it opens.

There would be a few things to work out. Can someone pay into more than one plot's lottery at a time and cancel their other lottery bids if they win one, or just limit to one pool per account? Do you give an advantage to people transfering like they have now or do you make it fair between transfers and new house buyers? But I think it would neatly address the issues the timer is meant to address while making the process more convenient and fair all around.