How to fix housing in 2 steps

[Divinemights]

They clearly struggle with player log-ins when there are too many worlds on a logical data center. That's why the JP worlds just got split from 10-11-11 to 8-8-8-8.

Increasing the number of worlds and adding more data centers for those worlds is needed not for housing sake but for the sake of the expanded player population. Even with 4 new worlds next month and another 4 next year, NA is packed tight compared to EU and JP. What NA really needs is 6 data centers with 48 worlds. That would bring the average population closer to what it is n the JP worlds not to mention add more plots.

Optimal in the case of housing systems is very subjective. I'd still give up my Mist medium in a heartbeat if an instanced system with the choice and functionality of RIFT's Dimensions was added to this game. Creativity was not limited there as it is here and the search function made it very easy to find and visit Dimensions owned by other players. The thousands of Likes listed on many Dimensions showed that. It's just a shame the other content in that game was mediocre.

You are not only asking them to copy other game's system and you are also asking them to invest physical hardwares into something only minimal players will actively using.
That is why I said it is not optimal not only to corporate suits and also SE's shareholders.
Invest server hardwares into datacenter expansion in contrast is more optimal

Let me further explain on how your idea will not work.
Beside investment of hardware resources, you are also pretty much asking the devs to spend development resources into creating a new system on top or original system (only drawback by supply unable to meet demmand)
How many hot potatoes that current devs have right now?

Let's list:
Hrothgars almost turned into forum terrorist during their persuade of Hrothgar refinement and female Hrothgar
PvP side, in which is now quite big chuck of playerbases also demanding further refinement of currentPvP system
Playerbase also want a better report system for TOS abuse and harassments, urgently.
Majority of players want better gear design
The list will just go on and on...

Why would them want to recreate/copy a system from scratch?