Housing lottery question.

[Evergrey]

Hmm going from a 1 in (however many people are there when it sells) chance 1 or more times a day to 1 in (hundreds or more) every few days doesn't sound better.

It all depends.
Seeing how a player will only be able to have 1 house per server someone can't try and get yet another one on an alt, reducing the numbers of possible buyers already.
And with the new requirements for a player to actually participate in the lottery means that there won't be any bots flooding the system.
And if you're worried over the number of people anyway.
Remember that there will be several housing districts that will spread out where people put their tickets.
Is the system perfect? No.
But at least it now gives everyone participating an even chance in getting a house, rather then bots spamming and people having to waste time clicking a sign hours at an end.

[LianaThorne]

It all depends.
Seeing how a player will only be able to have 1 house per server someone can't try and get yet another one on an alt, reducing the numbers of possible buyers already.
And with the new requirements for a player to actually participate in the lottery means that there won't be any bots flooding the system.
And if you're worried over the number of people anyway.
Remember that there will be several housing districts that will spread out where people put their tickets.
Is the system perfect? No.
But at least it now gives everyone participating an even chance in getting a house, rather then bots spamming and people having to waste time clicking a sign hours at an end.

Just gonna put out there that it's pretty easy to bypass the 1 house per person rule. Unless they decide to fix that, people will still find a way to own multiple in my opinion.

Side note this process is exactly how I predicted it to be. All that it is, is camping without the camping. You'll still only be able to do one at a time and still probably have to wait 12+ hours to find out if you got the house. Only this time, you're gonna be fighting against HUNDREDS of players compared to the handful that shows up at placard. You say there are going to be plenty of wards but please consider the number of people actively playing the game trying to fit into 12-14 wards total (since the lottery is only taking over half).

Did this really fix anything tho or just make the process even more luck dependant?