So, what now? Lotteries with 150+ bids until... when?

[EZGIL]

Under the old system I sat at my desk mashing the X button on my controller repeatedly. I tabbed out for five seconds to change songs, and I lost a house.

System kinda sucked, I'd been there for like 5 hours.

Which song did you switch to?

[anguel]

today i just found out a friend had bought a large private house,
then made a "solo" FC, and bought a second large house... solo ... just this, this shouldnt be allowed ...
there should be some kind of minimum requirement as a fc to bid on a large house, like 10 minimum ppl or something idk ...
ofc its allowed by the system in place and not against any rule, but still ...
kinda annoying

[Raim]

today i just found out a friend had bought a large private house,
then made a "solo" FC, and bought a second large house... solo ... just this, this shouldnt be allowed ...
there should be some kind of minimum requirement as a fc to bid on a large house, like 10 minimum ppl or something idk ...
ofc its allowed by the system in place and not against any rule, but still ...
kinda annoying

There are minimum requirements. You have to finish ARR MSQ and be a certain rank in the GC. Then I believe you need 4(?) members for 30 days. But typically people just pay some new players to join their FC temporarily till they buy the plot.

[Zer0ofTime]

They honestly shouldn't have opened more bids just for the remaining houses, they should have added at least 1 more ward to the round. Infact every round even if there are plots left over, they should still add another ward before restarting the bid round. Having 8908 people bidding on 1 small is not what they intended because their base intent had the whole ward empty at the start of bidding. With the intent all housing would have been bought after the first round. They have spent WAY too much time on this as is without adding more wards.

[Imora]

Which song did you switch to?

Don't even remember atm, but probably something by Dave Matthews Band. I went through a phase of their stuff on repeat while camping placards.

[EZGIL]

Don't even remember atm, but probably something by Dave Matthews Band. I went through a phase of their stuff on repeat while camping placards.

Nice. Saw them live one time.. with blues traveler, Kravitz... 90s things.

[Saraide]

The old system sucked and I never won anything from it, but the new system sucks too and has objectively worse odds.
Saying the odds are better now, because you couldn't even participate in the old system is a myopic way of coming at this discourse. From this standpoint, literally any system they implemented would be an improvement to you since you were never able to engage with the predecessor anyway. You're stuck defending modern-trash because the trash that came before it was less accessible trash. Why do that to yourself? Both systems are toxic garbage for different reasons.

But it's true though. For anyone not hating themselves enough to actually torture themselves this did improve the odds. It hasnt fixed the supply issue of course but that wasnt the point of the lottery change.

[drtasteyummy]

> look for house
> find 3 good ones
> can only try for one
> lose
> all gone
> next week only 3 million cubbyholes

they could at least increase the odds for each try per week.

[anguel]

they could at least increase the odds for each try per week.

that is actually a good idea

[Jojoya]

they could at least increase the odds for each try per week.

Except the odds would be increasing for all players who have been trying.

You can't give 150 different players a 100% chance of winning if there's only one plot available.