Quote Originally Posted by Kniteroad View Post
I'm not sure why you're so against removing gardening from housing unless you make most of your gil from selling gardening items. There are plenty of mats that come from gardening that certain crafts require. Giving people the reasonable ability to obtain those mats can only be a positive. Telling then "oh well you can buy it on the market board" is a terrible argument.

and the lottery is not meant to fix anything, it is meant to prevent people from "hurting" themselves and blaming SE for their "health problems" from camping a plot for 24 hours straight. This is the epitome of what I call "tide pod culture" where some people apparently no longer have the wherewithal to care for themselves and need an adult to do it for them. The lottery is a band aid to a bad system while they take the necessary time and allocate the proper resources to figure out how to reasonably solve the housing problem.
I've said this before but it's actually explained in psychological experiments. Look up the variable ratio schedule sometime. It's the reason gambling becomes so addictive.

It's why this placard clicking idea was a terrible one from the get-go. But, people wanted a way to stop the resellers from snatching up demo'd homes and flipping them for ridiculous prices, so they all thought this was a miracle that would put an end to it.

In practice, no. It's a terrible idea. Housing resellers/flippers easily adapted and their operations are still ongoing and they are all laughing their way to the gilbank. Meanwhile, players are in a variable ratio schedule experiment in hopes this latest bar press will give them that food pellet... I mean house.

Now people want a lotto. Which in theory sounds great and makes frustrated players feel this is the panacea. Let's see how they enjoy it in practice.

Honestly though, all of this can be solved by SE rethinking their approach to housing. They need to significantly increase the number of available houses (which they can't right now due to hardware issues) or finally cave and give us instanced housing.