So, a lottery system and a divide between FC and solo wards, eh?

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They aren't completely wrong though. We don't know everything. I'm pretty sure we can guess what the outcome will be, but I can't say that with 100% certainty. At best...maybe 98.9%.

So then what's SE's motivation for dropping this "lack of information"?

YoshiP isn't dumb. He's not going to talk just for the sake of talking.

If we're given information that something is going to be happening, then they want us to be talking about it. They're probably looking for our responses and ideas as they finalize how the systems will work.

If we sit here and play dumb because "not enough information", we could end up with another heavily flawed system getting exploited left and right.

You only hate them because my suggestions screw over the land barons that you worship and adore.

Recurring fees won't screw over the land barons. They're earning more than enough gil by actively operating the workshops and garden patches they have access to.

While I thought I didn't need to explain money management, by turning an asset into a liability (in other words, by attaching a perpetual cost to a house in terms of upkeep) it's going to make a lot of the people holding large swaths of land question if they want to retain those properties, or if they should unload them because what was an asset is now a fiscal liability.

Again, see above.

Recurring fees are a deterrent to those who are not using their plot, not a deterrent to those who get rich from having them.

SE would need to address the multiple house ownership separate. Recurring fees won't do anything on that front.

No, they paused it for everyone. Hate to break it to you but there is more regions than NA and JP.
It might just be that the system is universal and if you pause it it affect all data centers.

They've paused the timer only for NA at times. They've paused it only for JP at times. They've paused it for all regions at times. You can confirm this by scrolling back through Lodestone notices for the past 6 years.

They do have some control over where at least this one aspect of the game works.