Lottery extended to 4/29

[Heavenchild]

The issue is no matter what system they put into the game the housing will still suck for most of the ppl because the plots are so limited. Adding more wards is just a bandaid solution because those wards will just fill up after one day and we be back to square one, with limited housing for a large number of players.

But maybe the request for housing wouldn't be that strong if it's a thing that everybody easily can have. People are like this, I don't know why. There are really cool things in the game. But if they are not 'rare' they have almost no value. :/
I think a better system would be enough, together with enough space (enough servers). Before so many new people started with FFXIV there were always some free houseplots.
Even when the number of players exploded there were still free houseplots from time to time, if you observe a lil bit. When SE stops the 45 days timer, then there are almost never free plots. Because all people who never use their house keep their house.

The lottery is also easy to abuse for rich people with multiple accounts and bots. My idea was at first a 90 days of membership, before an fc member can get the lead (and become owner of the fc house).
This would make it very hard for all those resellers. And people who often hopp between fc's are also negativly affected with that 30 days. But the 30 days can't solve the problem.

Second I suggested to shorten the timer to a maximum of 8 hours. For people who wanted to buy a house new, it was so that they had almost no chance within the first hours.
So my idea was to use the first 1-2 hours for some kind of '2nd timer' for people who wanna relocate. So that they have a little timer, too.
So resellers couldn't sell the plot immediately to a relocating person. Because it can take up to 2 hours until the land can be purchased. And in this time (if it's a nice plot) other players with interest to relocate will surely show up and also try and click on the shield. :3

After the first 2 hours, the 2nd timer starts for everyone. But to a maximum of 8h until the land is ready. When there is enough serverspace, like it was in the past, then the system with the housing wards
is no problem and there will be always free plots you can try to get. The big problems were always the resellers who try to get every house just to sell it for moonprices or making gil for rmt and that the space became too less with all the new players.
In my personal opinion. :3