30+ people for Lottery for Large Plot

[EthanXdeath]

I was thinking about this as I watched the number for the only two mansions in personal wards go up.
Another possible fix could be to have all plots being the same size, and all houses having the same footprint and cost, and then the cost would come when you go to build the bones. Sort of like animal crossing and swtor :-) You buy a one room and you can keep upgrading.
So a small would be two floor (bigger than an apartment/FC room)
A Med would be three floors.
A Mansion would be 4. Or something like that.

It would help to keep the ward concept, but it would also space out the bidding and allow people who want a specific size house to have it, instead of 70+ people trying to lot on 2 mansions.

I would also accept the Island Sanctuary being a replacement for housing if I could have a mansion type space to play designer with. :-)

Island Sanctuary isn't housing, not in any shape way or form. And plenty of people have offered up this upgrade housing size, and the argument I've seen against it is the plots are hard coded to be that size and only that size.

[Irishfae]

Island Sanctuary isn't housing, not in any shape way or form. And plenty of people have offered up this upgrade housing size, and the argument I've seen against it is the plots are hard coded to be that size and only that size.

I know IS isn't housing, but adding that feature wouldn't be a bad thing.
I also understand the hard coding element, but if there is to be a fundamental change in how housing works, then the bones would need to be changed as well. That would probably make for some issues for the people who have houses already, but there is usually a way around it.
It also doesn't hurt to bring the topic back up again. :-)

[Themarvin]

well I hope I get to move my FC into a medium then... even though have to battle many... however, it is a fair game.

[Corvus_V]

This entire thread is evidence they should cease any other development on housing/wards until they add instanced homesteads with houses. FCs do not need that much space, but given that they were just outright given first dibs on every single large in the 2/3rds of the wards they had access to (or the shell FCs of which there are many, some as open as "PayMe") even opening up FC wards to personal buyers will no longer fix the issue because of their lack of foresight. Its a joke in the first place, because 90% of the time you only have 1 person decorating the FC house themselves; its not even unlike personal housing in any way as far as player experience goes. Anyone who doesnt have a house still wont get to decorate one of their desired size.

Smalls and mediums serve just as many FC apartments as a large FC house. The company workshops are the same. There was no need for them to do that other than vanity, and that should have been a level playing field for everyone.

[Irishfae]

I wasn't able to log in before the lottery resolved, but the number, last night, was over 252+ people lotting on 3 large plots. And if they keep to 6 larges in main & sub wards, the demand is just going to keep increasing

Hopefully, now that we're seeing some numbers regarding housing demands, changes can be put into place so maybe the other 249+ people might have some hope of getting a large plot.