Housing Lottery 6.1 and beyond.

[Seraphor]

This really isn't true.

Houses and apartments are already instanced on the inside. Unless you have another term for areas that are identical that unique groups of players can interact with and modify individual occurrences of.

It's the exteriors that are ultimately the problem. Which are still instanced (each ward/sub-division is an instance), just more demanding.

No they're not instances. A instance is a technical term for a uniquely loaded temporary 'instance', which is hosted on the 'instance' servers. Instances are technically infinite, due to their temporary nature, when one endsn it's gone and another can be loaded.

Housing interiors may be different zones that all share the same layout, but they are not temporary instances. They are permanently accessible as part of the 'world', you can walk into them through their front door and different players can come in and out and occupy the same space at the same time. They are hosted on the 'world' servers along with every other zone that doesn't require a duty queue. They are finite, because they are permanent fixtures that are always accessible.

[Shibi]

They are hosted on the 'world' servers along with every other zone that doesn't require a duty queue.

Doesn't really hold true, the recent "unable to enter your home" error seemingly proves that it's a unique system. If they were hosted with other zones, then trying to teleport into any zone would get it too.

[Sauteed]

Someone mentioned that it's possible the development team will see the amount of people applying for housing lottery (even tho the massive amount of social media insanity wasn't enough), will cause the team realize what a huge issue the housing market is for people and allocate resources as needed. Over the years I've played, I've seen everything from bald faced lies, dodging, and complete dis-interest from the development team, and when I heard they were going to implement lottery and island sanctuaries (with the hope it's a form of personal customizable space) I came back after a long hiatus.

I'm holding out hope for island sanctuaries. Nothing done around housing that I have seen has done anything but cause every level of grief, drama, people hating each other, bots and dumpster fires.. you name it. I kind of torqued they just leaving it 30 houses with a tiny portion of them being mediums and larges. Allowing players to expand apartments, and adding sharing like houses do would go a REAL long way to address the situation. And for goodness' sake, fix the decorating system. I am so sick of floating crap.

[Jojoya]

No they're not instances.

Then explain that to YoshiP who has told us that interiors are instanced and without the weather conditions required for the garden patches and intercross gardening, which is why we can not use garden patches or intercross garden inside of houses/apartments even though we can grow things in flowerpots.

You're limiting yourself to a very narrow definition of "instance".

It doesn't change that instanced housing not only can but does exist. Just about every other MMO with housing is an example. It serves a player base better than the ward system ever could which is why it gets used.