Quote Originally Posted by Reinha View Post
This is correct and intended. We used to have a better system where you just walked up to a house in a new ward and bought it, which rewarded players who bothered to login on patch day. The ultra casual players asked for a lottery despite not even knowing the difference between a new ward release and a demolished house and whined about the random timer and placard clicking which would not have applied in Ishgard under the old rules. Those players are being catered to with the 9 day cycle and it's by design, so I doubt there will be any changes.
"Bothered to log in" Thanks for that laugh. Sorry I have to work to pay for my apartment, food, car, etc. I am a casual but I definitely played more than a casual would. First come first serve let botters and the lucky few who got in without a queue have free reign in the new wards while people who weren't the first in line because of everyone trying to log in at once were left with either nothing or, if they were lucky, a couple open plots. Even with placard clicking it incentivized botting and using scripts to auto click the placard and disincentivized people from trying to get a house knowing what they were competing with. Even worse before the relocation change you could spam click a placard for hours and hours and some rando could relocate on top of you wasting all that time and causing their previous plot to enter the random 24 hour timer.

First come first serve was terrible and deserves to die and never come back. The current lottery timer is fine as was said earlier it allows everyone the opportunity to interact with the system and get a house, regardless of your real life responsibilities.