Ishgard Housing No Lottery For Wards

[ForteNightshade]

The biggest problem with lottery in my view is you get one shot with new ward releases and you have to wait not sure how many days before you find out. When you do find out all the houses will be sold. With new ward releases and fcfs you may not get your house of choice but there will be multiple opportunities for less than desirable locations especially with smalls.

This is what I feel will be an incredibly rude awakening for many people championing the lottery system. With a free-for-all system, you could bounce around to different houses or wards to hopefully grab your "backup house." When house hunting myself, I always picked out several just in case I couldn't log in fast enough or someone beat me to the plot I wanted. With the lottery system, you get one shot—with odds ranging below 1%. Lose the lottery and you can pretty much kiss housing good bye because now every plot is gone and they won't release new wards for a year or two at best.

Once again, they're just slapping a band-aid on an objectively terrible system and people are eating it up without releasing just how bad it'll end up being in the long haul.

The lottery system is the only right and fair way for both plot and non plot owners, working and non working people to have equal chances without sitting 24h in front of the screen and clicking the placecard like a mad monkey. Everyone who says something else just thinks he is better than the rest and should have and easier time than everyone else. So just leave it like it is.

With new wards, you weren't waiting 24hs. They were instantly purchase-able the moments servers went live. This isn't about thinking I or anyone else is better but pointing out the folly of how a lottery system with only one ticket has actually reduced all of our likelihood at getting a house. Maybe you can't log in as fast I could but if 2,000 houses release, you just need to be ahead of that queue to have just as equal a chance. Maybe your preferred plot isn't up anymore since you logged in at 1,100 but look over there, another plot is free and nobody is near it. Your runner up plot is yours now.

With the new lottery system, what I just described isn't possible. Instead, you put in your one ticket, cross your fingers and should you lose... wait for years just for the "privilege" of repeating the process all over again.