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

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Hate to break it to you but there is more regions than NA and JP.

Eh, those are the only two that matter =P

I don't condone stalking but what you've described in the past threads isn't stalking.

You would be correct if it stayed within the housing forum... but when they post that link in a completely disconnected way to attempt to discredit something said in healer or general...

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

Are there any PR tours coming up? When's the next live letter?

Also, do you have a link to what was actually said in the last one?

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

He's also human, so YoshiP can make mistakes...

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.

I think we're (predictably) focusing on the wrong part of the problem, and we should really be focusing on the divide between FC and personal houses, and what that should look like and how that works. I mean...

• Should SE duplicate and split the wards between FC and personal so all FC houses are in one set of wards and all personal houses are in another?
• How many wards should be added that are purely personal and purely FC?
• Should there be mixed wards allowed after the change?
• Should the mixed wards be phased out eventually?

All of that actually addresses many of the longstanding issues with housing because they are all centered on the supply/demand imbalance since there's an absurd amount demand with a stark lack of supply. Acquisition method becomes irrelevant when there's enough supply that time for acquisition stops getting measured in months. Instead, this forum is (predictably) getting distracted over a lotto that DOES NOT MATTER WITH ENOUGH SUPPLY.

There is another (very relevant) announced feature to all of this that we have not had any real information on, specifically Island Sanctuaries. If Island Sanctuaries is an equivalent gardening feature to housing gardening, that's also going to reduce housing demand. The same is true if we are able to get a workshop spot through Garlond Ironworks at Revenant's Toll, as that will also reduce demand. I doubt many players have been able to experience this content because of how many problems FCs have had with idiots ninja'ing thavnairian onions and selling them on the AH. If SE is paying attention, these are two things that are LONG overdue and two additional announcements that would be insanely beneficial to the entire housing cluster.

People are looking for an easy solutions and don't want to face the reality that the timer is not what is preventing them from getting a house.

And that's largely why I'm de-emphasizing the lotto acquistion stuff for the moment. Supply (or lack thereof) is the root problem.