How is anyone fine with the 4-month patch delivery schedule?

[MintnHoney]

Because the original intent was for housing to be for FC's only since FC leadership can be passed around. It was never intended for personal use, but that can of worms got opened and they had to add in a stipulation to remove homes from inactive players in order to make plots available.

Meanwhile, FC estates are also at risk with the implemented system, and they failed to put any restrictions on ownership until after the the demand rose above the supply (and they had a good while to do that, too). They've already proven that they can flag the different ownerships differently from each other, and the spaghetti code doesn't seem to be getting in the way of them being able to implement restrictions or update player flag data on a system they put in, so why are both at risk if it's only personal homes that were never intended and are, therefore, the problem? Furthermore, that ultimately wouldn't have solved anything with housing, because anyone could make an FC and meet the requirements to have a house, especially for what they were at the time (I haven't checked, but they may have updated it since the initial "get your FC to rank 6" singular rule).

But again, this is only a small piece of the whole issue.

[Avatre]

*snip for relevance*
(I haven't checked, but they may have updated it since the initial "get your FC to rank 6" singular rule).

Just did a quick google search, and this is what came up for requirements.

Entering as a Free Company Representative:
Your free company must be rank 6 or above.
Your free company must have four or more members.
You must be authorized by your free company to purchase and relinquish land.
You must have been a member of your free company for 30 days or longer. (*)
Apr 21, 2022

[Vahlnir]

Just did a quick google search, and this is what came up for requirements.

Entering as a Free Company Representative:
Your free company must be rank 6 or above.
Your free company must have four or more members.
You must be authorized by your free company to purchase and relinquish land.
You must have been a member of your free company for 30 days or longer. (*)
Apr 21, 2022

That won't be a problem for all the wrong people by the time they actually get this lottery system back up and running.