Perhaps SE could start the lottery only in the personal wards and delay it in the FC wards by 6 weeks? I don't know if they have that level of control to turn the lottery on and off by ward.

If they can't, then delaying it for all wards until 6 weeks after home world transfer resumes would make sense.

Or it may be they want to reward the players who got FCs started fast for new players. Those FCs would still rely on gil being transferred from other servers. Even the million gil bonus won't be getting paid out to characters created day one until the first entry period has ended.