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

[Damptoe]

If their inventories are already filled up with the housing items they want to use then they don't need to buy them so it doesn't benefit your economies, does it?

They should have been smart and filled up their inventories with items that are immediately useful instead of filling them up with items easily replaced and useless for at least a couple of months - SE made no secret about when they intended to open housing on Materia. Obviously keeping any seasonal event/mogstation housing items would have made sense but the rest is just deadweight when housing isn't available.

Like I said above, I'd love to see your housing opened sooner instead of later. The issue is whether FCFS should be used or lottery. FCFS is an inherently unfair system in a game that operates 24/7 while the majority of the player base doesn't have the option to play 24/7 due to real life obligation.

Waiting an extra week so distribution of housing ends up fair is not going to harm your communities or economies.

I'm not saying their inventories are filled up with housing items right now. I'm saying they're not going to start spending on housing items until they have a house to dump them in because of inventory constraints. Lotteries will just delay that while people are locked up in the process to get a house and failing, when they could have just bought another one already with FCFS.

NA and EU can keep their lotteries. We promise we won't make you adopt our upside down ways.