I wonder if it is too little too late. Lots of shell FCs have popped up in recent days (since the lottery was announced and the requirements made known). FCs where players split off from the main FC, joined the new FC - zerged the FC rank up. Left a few players in there to bid, and the rest either went back to the main FC or moved on to zerg another shell FC.

Lots of these plots are already snapped up. I guess better late than never. SE should have just used the first lottery round as the barometer for actual demand for FC plots and switched it up during the lottery hiatus to fix the bug.