Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
The only thing the new system achieved was probably just stop people from doing unhealthy camping, like not sleeping.
I sincerely hope that was the motivation behind the change. I struggle to believe that Square would be that naive to think it would solve the housing shortage. Quite the opposite in fact: It made competing in the housing market accessible. At least now they have metrics on just how badly the ward system has missed the mark.

An unintentional side-effect of their lottery implementation is that the playerbase also has the ability to collect fairly accurate metrics on how badly they missed the mark.