Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
As the title says, all the vacant plots should be raffled instead of just the new plots coming with Ishgard's housing district in patch 6.1.

There's at least one vacant plot on the server I play on Lich, that has come up since the release of OCE servers and I suspect more will come in the next 12-24 hours as the paid transfers open up.

A lot of players want to buy a house and the current system of camping a plot on the timer promotes both botting and just unhealthy of gameplay of spamming the purchase land button until it becomes available in the hopes you are first. This is how my FC acquired a small plot in The Goblet last year, someone camped until whatever stupid time at like 4 AM to buy it.

I'd like to see all existing plots that become vacant raffled on a 14 day timer once they become vacant. That gives people enough time to make an entry into the raffle without it taking months to become occupied again.

Likewise, there should really be a limit of one house per game license across all servers/DCs with said change being retroactively applied. I know it probably affects a few players but there's also a limited number of housing plots in comparison to the amount of people playing, this would be an entirely fair change.

I'm aware that SE are just adapting a system that was clearly designed with a smaller player pool in mind, but I feel like they're leaving it too late to actually fix the house acquisition system. I know private islands are coming but they're not the same feeling as being in a community alongside other players.
I've already imagined 2-3 ways the same people who abused housing in the past might abuse a lottery system. SE is very wise not to switch the entire system over until they've observed what the usual suspects will try to do in order to take more than their share.