Ishgard Housing No Lottery For Wards

[Musings]

I don't know where you THINK there are ever as few as 2 bots clicking on a housing sign. My point is that a system which requires the player to sit for DANGEROUS periods of time for the CHANCE they MIGHT ping the server at EXACTLY the correct time is a lottery in and of itself. You are correct that 5 bots clicking is better odds than 100 players entering a lottery. That being said you have absolutely zero proof that Ishgard will SOMEHOW be so unpopular that only 2 people are clicking on a placard, ever, in the entire time the house is available.

I am also not willing to hurt other people for better odds NOR am I willing to support a system that ENCOURAGES botting and griefing other players for better odds. I had people fly minions in my face for hours, set off their loudest and most obnoxious abilities in my face for hours, do anything and EVERYTHING to interfere with the placard including jumping all over it and parking mounts on top of it. All of which can be circumvented but it is annoying and griefing none-the-less. It's a terrible system on multiple levels that cannot be gone fast enough.

Once again as I said in my edit if they want to open a few wards as READY-TO-BUY-NO-TIMERS and they can absolutely guarantee there will be no queue issues that's fine. I'll support that. I will not support asking people to risk their health for a crummy system that's basically a lottery anyway except you have to waste time on it instead of entering and moving on.

But first come first serve is not the unhealthy clicking you’re talking about. They aren’t doing that anymore at all. First come first serve doesn’t require hours of clicking unhealthily at a placard. It means you get a chance when the patch drops of Ishgard’s new plots, just like with all the other new ward releases from previous patches. And that’s all we’re asking for - some of the new wards in the new Ishgard district to be FCFS, and then all the other plots will be lottery. No clicking for hours in either case.