A Better Way for Houses Up For Grabs

[Jojoya]

Hi. Instead of cutting off the rest of the post please include where I said exactly this.

Here's your entire post. You didn't say the same thing I was saying. You just started listing your own ideas that again don't solve the problem.

I see a lot of suggestions get tossed around for housing but seems like people are opposed to most of them, and full heartedly state why they disagree (that's fine) but usually forget to input their suggestions on how to go in a positive direction. I've kind of been behind the instanced housing ideology, but not just 100 item cap no tenant apartment instanced housing. Think like vastly improved over that. I've also said these improved apartments should be subject to the same house decay as normal houses and you can also keep a regular non decaying apartment alongside it, but cannot own a ward house as well as the improved apt. I think that is the fairest way to address the housing situation outside of just opening dozens of new wards and quit trying to incentivize transferring to other data centers or worlds etc.

There are reasons why lottery system is trading in 1 issue for another that will be a abuse prone as well as keeping the supply far too limited. Even if the original idea was to keep housing limited in the beginning the population has ballooned in a FAR greater capacity than what was imagined so limited supply became WAY TOO limited supply and has been a constant source of grievous problems for people wanting to get in the scene while people already invested get slammed or trolled and attacked for actually you know.. owning a house. Kind of mind boggling.

[Sauteed]

Here's your entire post. You didn't say the same thing I was saying. You just started listing your own ideas that again don't solve the problem.

No, I mention no one seems to mention any idea of their own, while shooting down every proposed idea, as well as mentioning the lottery system won't fix the issue of limited housing.
Additionally, my idea of generating an instanced version of a house would fix a lot of problems that people tend to bring up. Outside of releasing sufficient wards to address the issue of greatly limited housing, what do you propose? Rather be incapable of reasoning and cut off posts or prefer I quote verbatim every single line of back of forth over the last several years?

In the context of the discussion, what do you offer tho? Any suggestion? Just here to stir the pot some?

[tdb]

No, I mention no one seems to mention any idea of their own, while shooting down every proposed idea, as well as mentioning the lottery system won't fix the issue of limited housing.

I can't speak of others, but I at least did not propose lottery as a way to fix limited housing. Rather, I proposed it as a method of distributing said limited housing which is more fair than the current timer system, while solving the same problems that the timer solves. Instanced housing would be the ultimate solution, but it likely requires a large amount of effort to solve. For one, I have no idea of how much server capacity it would require compared to current. And it seems like SE might have some philosophical issues with removing neighborhoods from housing. Changing the distribution method is realistically doable and only requires a small or moderate amount of effort.

[Realism_Snide]

I can't speak of others, but I at least did not propose lottery as a way to fix limited housing. Rather, I proposed it as a method of distributing said limited housing which is more fair than the current timer system, while solving the same problems that the timer solves. Instanced housing would be the ultimate solution, but it likely requires a large amount of effort to solve. For one, I have no idea of how much server capacity it would require compared to current. And it seems like SE might have some philosophical issues with removing neighborhoods from housing. Changing the distribution method is realistically doable and only requires a small or moderate amount of effort.

I agree, and I also agree with your raffle proposal, but think that only limiting the winners to those who are online and not afk is pretty unfair to everyone. Instead of clicking for 20+ hours, now you might have to run around in place for 20+ hours. Or you might be at work, and you won the raffle, but can't collect it on time. That would just encourage players to skip on work, or sleep, or meals, just like clicking on the board. It would be better if you got a time limit of 12-24 hours to collect your house prize, imo.

[Barwara]

A raffle also wouldn’t change the fact there’s a shortage of housing. Even if the raffle worked perfectly and everyone had a shot, you might still go months, or years, without getting said house.

[Realism_Snide]

A raffle also wouldn’t change the fact there’s a shortage of housing. Even if the raffle worked perfectly and everyone had a shot, you might still go months, or years, without getting said house.

No, but it will fix the health hazard that spamming a placard for 20+ hours brings.