Housing!! Do you Like the New Way?

[CatSidheSilvie]

Beyond the issues with the 0 bug (also affected, on a zero competition house lol), I think it is better.

I did manage to get my personal house via placard camping, but omg. It was soul draining and I felt like I wasn't working hard enough to get a house when I was actually playing. Then when I was clicking placards for hours straight... I felt like I was being dumb, because I wasn't enjoying it. I enjoyed my house and am proud(?) I got it fair and square via persistence and luck...... but lottery is just, so much better. You can drop the money and come back later and not fume over hours wasted.

Sure, it doesn't solve all the problems -- there are still people buying up whole wards, there are still people getting FC houses who aren't in a "real" FC. Still big FCs swarming to win over little FCs (which is intended, understandably). But the overall stress is reduced and it doesn't really seem like there are worse problems (again, ignoring the unintended glitch), so I rule it as a better system overall.

[Vahlnir]

It doesn't actually fix the underlying issues with housing, so no, I don't like it.

[GomJabbar]

The time should be cut in about half, but otherwise I think it's a better system overall.

[Jin-]

I tested it on my alt for fun. I won. Maybe I can rent it for cheap to someone

[Kes13a]

I dont mind the new system.

beats the heck out of camping a placard and losing to a bot anyway.

[VerdeLuck]

It still doesn't fix that for housing to be available to players reliably they'd need about 2x to 3x the houses they have now. How they're distributed is a little bit fairer now but it doesn't fix anything really.

[Vercinotrix]

One required an egregious amount of effort or botting to compete. The other you have to pray you win against a horde of people for a personal.

Both are bad, lottery is better, still not enough housing for anyone who wants it.

We need some form of instanced housing, preferably in the actual major cities somewhere relatively close to either key points or MSQ relevance. This is coming from someone with 2 houses in Shirogane/Empyreum if that makes any difference.

[Roehann]

With the exception of the bug, I like the new system. Right now there are a lot less Lala Gladiators running around, clicking on a house.. Last summer when I finally won my small house, I lost out to four lalas about 25 times before finally winning against them. MANY MANY hours of game play sitting there clicking with no choice.. either stay and click or never win.. :/

The only thing I wish they would consider changing was the relocation feature. Instead of completely doing away with it, they should have allowed you to relocate or have a stacked odds in your favor once a year or some decent time frame.

The way I see it, they could have worked it like the Need/Greed system. Once a year you get to "need" on your lottery ticket and that would add weight to your ticket. It doesn't hurt the average user since there is a time period <1 year> to use this and your current house would go back into the pool and be put up to lottery next time.

Other than that I like the new system. Now, housing in general well that is a different story.. More slots, better system to decorate, Apartments with gardens, etc. there is a ton of work left to do with the housing system to make it fun and fair for all, but I do believe the lottery system in a step in the right direction.

[LisSquid]

It's better than forcing people to click for days on end, but it's still a band-aid fix on a broken system.

[Shibi]

For me, it's been far more stressful.

Rather than camping a placard for 2 hours, losing, and moving on to the next immediately, instead I camped this plot for 5 days, knowing that should anyone else bid my chances would drop, possibly to zero due to unlimited FC bid ability, and I'd have to wait 9 days for a another hit.

The whole time I was there I was feeling nauseous from stress, especially when I saw members of the largest FC on the server run up. It's been bandaid removal vs broken leg.

It might be bearable if the lottery period was 24 hours to 48 hours.