Please shorten the lottery cycle period.

[Basteala]

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.

Ah yes, when people en masse stood in front of a house and wasted 4-16 hours of their life (depending on whether a player knew about primetime, whether a house sold DURING primetime--usually wasn't always--I camped one of those outliers), and most of them lost with a feeling they wasted their time. Truly superior.

Now that we have that out of the way, I do agree that a 7 day period would have been better--if for no other reason that you could far more easily keep track of when housing lottos began and ended. But that has nothing to do with whether I feel it's too long or two short. If we magically started having 10 day weeks, I'd advocate to make it a day longer.

[Divinemights]

Ah yes, when people en masse stood in front of a house and wasted 4-16 hours of their life (depending on whether a player knew about primetime, whether a house sold DURING primetime--usually wasn't always--I camped one of those outliers), and most of them lost with a feeling they wasted their time. Truly superior.

Now that we have that out of the way, I do agree that a 7 day period would have been better--if for no other reason that you could far more easily keep track of when housing lottos began and ended. But that has nothing to do with whether I feel it's too long or two short. If we magically started having 10 day weeks, I'd advocate to make it a day longer.

Mister, if people smart enough, they would wait for each major plot release to get their first plot
That is how 90% of current owners got theirs
Under old method, I pick a non prime target, practice repeated to travel there
I spark my character outside of the housing ward entrance instead of main city
Set up my alarm clock
Maintenance is over, my line is 1800 on Levithan but I still able to get my house

Lottery is only ideal for relocation plot, not fresh release, if you don’t understand that, too bad

[Reinha]

Mister, if people smart enough, they would wait for each major plot release to get their first plot
That is how 90% of current owners got theirs
Under old method, I pick a non prime target, practice repeated to travel there
I spark my character outside of the housing ward entrance instead of main city
Set up my alarm clock
Maintenance is over, my line is 1800 on Levithan but I still able to get my house

Lottery is only ideal for relocation plot, not fresh release, if you don’t understand that, too bad

This method worked for me multiple times and I had a bad computer and internet connection at the time. Queue was not an excuse because there were still houses left a couple of hours after launch. If one didn't get a house it was simply because they didn't log in. Lottery could have improved the way demolished plots are handled but that's it. Just as I called it, people chime in with their irrelevant comments about placard clicking which was never in place for new ward releases.

Ah yes, when people en masse stood in front of a house and wasted 4-16 hours of their life

Even with placard clicking it incentivized botting and using scripts to auto click the placard