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

[Damptoe]

This is simply untrue. Housing bots come in all flavours. FCFS ward rushes favour botters using 3rd party launchers, some of which can directly teleport to the placard etc

Saying this as someone who volunteered to find open plots and to keep track of when those plots sold, from Jun 2019 - Mar 2022 for the House Alerts Discord.

And when it comes to placard clicking with FCFS wards, bots do not lose focus or have to rest like human players.

The lottery system does not address the fundamental problem of supply, especially on NA servers.

But the FCFS system significantly favours bots/automation.

Unfortunately SE has gone for blanket approach of applying the lottery to all regions.

The point is that none of the placard clicking or focus is relevant for the grand opening when you just need to click the placard once.

I just don't agree with FCFS favouring bots and automation.
Admittedly, I have no experience with the situation in NA and maybe it's more rampant there than JP where my previous experiences with three ward openings were.

However, the situation in NA and OCE is very different.
If a player or botter wants a house, they will probably get it whether it's lottery or FCFS because there will be plenty of open plots for months after 6.1 releases depending on the world.

The lottery introduces a few barriers for real players on this data centre and prevents nothing.
It's a great solution to the problem the developers introduced when they added the random timer after relocations, but it barely has any purpose for the initial purchases on OCE.

The benefits of the lottery in the context of OCE are obviously that it gives people who can't be online at the exact hour of the 6.1 launch a chance to make a bid for their favourite plot.
Which is why it would be great if OCE got the option of having both purchasing options.

I know there's no point arguing this anymore though because we're already stuck with this silliness as you said.
I'm just extremely disappointed I transferred my main here given how the housing situation turned out, but I'm going to stick with it regardless. Gave up my plot already anyway.