Imagine someone thinking that 300 million+ is fair for a house, lol.

We're trying to make housing available, not exclude 99% of the population by sheer price alone.

Trying to get 300 million+ with how much competition there is for just about anything in the game is merely going back to "Only no-lifers need apply". And it's the No-Lifers who are already very much at the advantage right now, which is what my whole proposal was trying to get rid of.

My proposal of a straight up bidding and lot drawing is designed to give everybody an equal playing field so long as you have the money to buy in, everybody has the same chance of obtaining a property (with the optional double chance if you do not already own a property, or something akin to that), and it removes the tedium of standing there spamming clicks on a placard hoping to be the guy to sneak your clicks in as soon as it becomes available while simultaneously getting rid of the need for botting and other toxic behavior. Everybody goes there, puts their bid in, and then waits to see if they won.

Not sure why we're talking about workshops and farmers here, especially since they made it that only one account can own one house per server IIRC?

Though IMO, they should give, say, a 6 month warning and those who have multiple houses have to give them up. Even if someone quits over having to give the houses up, you'd be losing what, a dozen players or so? Good riddance. If they can't see how toxic it is to be hanging onto a whole ward of properties, then they are not the sort of player we want in the community anyway.