<MATERIA> First-Come First-Served AND Lottery Plots

[Shibi]

I did think of a way that SE could initially roll out wards on a FCFS basis while retaining some measure of fairness - stagger the release of the wards (assuming that is possible with their programming)..

Stagger opening was one of the first things I thought of for Materia old cities, but it's likely not going to work as they seem to need to always need to bring down the servers.

Plus of course, the vast bulk of Materia players who will be after housing don't have the housing quests done yet (they are locked). Those need to be collected and then travel and go in from the overland to enter the wards and buy. Staggered wards through opening, mean it's possible the ward could be full and people can't enter to complete the quest.

My thought after, for people stuck in the queue, and people playing from NA, where a release is likely to be 3am or so, was how it could be nice if they can set all houses placard timers to an exact time, but stagger them, rather than staggering opening up the wards.

All wards open (so the housing quests can be done 4 times over) but Ward 1 opens up as fcfs immediately... Ward 2's placards are open and clickable, but will be purchasable from hour 1... Ward 3's placards are open and clickable, but will be purchasable from hour 2... up to ward x-y are going to be half lotto solo and lotto fc.

Or do it over 12 hours, with 2 wards popping open each time.