Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Heroman3003]

Is it really though? People thought the lottery would be a great idea and now there's post after post of people complaining about it. The only constant is you can't please everyone and no one solution is going to fit.

Ultimately, no solution will be accepted until housing as a whole ceases to be limited. Which is only truly doable with instanced form. Sure, there may still be complaints of "but I dont want instanced, i want in neighbourhood and in specific spot too", but theyd truly become minority. Until then, the roulette is for the best, although I will say, I doubt improvements roulette needs are that hard to implement.

[Joven]

Ultimately, no solution will be accepted until housing as a whole ceases to be limited. Which is only truly doable with instanced form. Sure, there may still be complaints of "but I dont want instanced, i want in neighbourhood and in specific spot too", but theyd truly become minority. Until then, the roulette is for the best, although I will say, I doubt improvements roulette needs are that hard to implement.

Houses in general seem to be exceeding the number of players wanting them in a lot of cases, however, since they're not the specific houses people want then it's seem as "not enough".

[Heroman3003]

Houses in general seem to be exceeding the number of players wanting them in a lot of cases, however, since they're not the specific houses people want then it's seem as "not enough".

Tbh it also varies server-to-server. I managed to snatch exact small plot I wanted during last roulette and I did that with literally nobody even trying to contest and like half the new smalls in the new wards of that district are still open, but then you have other worlds/servers where almost everything except worst goblet spots is bought up already. People naturally gravitate towards trying for 'better' spots and after they fail, the bad spots have competition over them too, where they fail as well. I don't think it's fair to blame it entirely on that because of it. So yeah, demand is uneven on different world servers, and supply is more limited in some places than other.

[Joven]

Tbh it also varies server-to-server. I managed to snatch exact small plot I wanted during last roulette and I did that with literally nobody even trying to contest and like half the new smalls in the new wards of that district are still open, but then you have other worlds/servers where almost everything except worst goblet spots is bought up already. People naturally gravitate towards trying for 'better' spots and after they fail, the bad spots have competition over them too, where they fail as well. I don't think it's fair to blame it entirely on that because of it. So yeah, demand is uneven on different world servers, and supply is more limited in some places than other.

Then move to an area where the supply exceeds the demand.

[Heroman3003]

Then move to an area where the supply exceeds the demand.

I also think demand to abandon FC and server where friends primarily play is rather unreasonable one to make. You could make an argument that 'well if they want a house that much-', but reality is, housing is presented as something that is just available rather than particularly exclusive, and there's little reason for it to not be available without limit EXCEPT the server size and storage issues that SE acknowledged in the past, and issues with securing expansions. Hence, why I do agree that instanced housing is best solution imaginable; but also acknowledge that in current constraints it is just unfeasible, and just extra wards being added over time, with priority given to servers that struggle to fill said demand, and all following the more fair roulette system is good enough alternative.