Please shorten the lottery cycle period.

[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

[Elesh]

The lottery cycle really doesn't matter. There won't be any plots to bid on regardless of how long or short the cycle is lol

The length of a lottery cycle is the least of the concerns right now. I'd much rather they focus on making more stuff available than on shortening the time we have to get it. I'm perfectly okay with the length of the cycle - gives everyone time to both enter and to check the placard.

[cinnamonlatte]

Supply is low right now due to auto-demolition being off for such a long time. Under normal circumstances, new plots are popping up fairly regularly, so the length of the lottery time will matter in the *long-term*. For example, on Faerie, pre-auto demolition halt, between 30-50 small plots were open *every week*.

And yes, SE should focus on how they may increase supply of housing, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t tweak the lottery system to make it better.

[Eris4494]

It should be one day entry and next day drawing for it.

[Avoidy]

Hi, just jumping in to agree with this! And maybe find a way to just mail people their money if they lost? This way you could shorten the after-buying process without worrying about people missing the deadline to pick up their gil because they had work or something.

[Shibi]

...maybe find a way to just mail people their money if they lost? This way you could shorten the after-buying process without worrying about people missing the deadline to pick up their gil because they had work or something.

The 4 day end window is for people to claim a won property, not to collect the refund.

On mailing a refund, Yoshi covered that in the live letter they announced lottery and clearly ruled it out due to system load.

To collect a refund you have 90 days. I am sure that even the most busy person can find time from their work to log in during those 3 months and go back to the placard to collect.

[Vahlnir]

Supply is low right now due to auto-demolition being off for such a long time. Under normal circumstances, new plots are popping up fairly regularly, so the length of the lottery time will matter in the *long-term*. For example, on Faerie, pre-auto demolition halt, between 30-50 small plots were open *every week*.

And yes, SE should focus on how they may increase supply of housing, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t tweak the lottery system to make it better.

Even if the demo timer was back on, the competition is too fierce for what is already an extremely limited supply. All in all it wouldn't accomplish anything. Timer or no timer, there's still not enough houses and there's too many people that want one. I say leave it off.