Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Zebraoracle]

Isn't the truest problem that every plot isn't large on prime location?
I am not dumb, I see those people demanding new wards right now or they hold their breath till they pass out after they lose the lottery on their dream large, the only plot they will ever accept.
I got small plot just fine week before the new wards were released.
It was small and in horrible location. But it, too, is a housing plot.

Actually the truest problem is that there's just not enough supply to meet the demand on a lot of servers.

I understand the logic behind "go for what you can guarantee and then try to upgrade later". It's CLEARLY the logical choice. However, the issue here is, on the more populated servers, the current period of time is the best time to bid on mediums (lol larges). If you don't get a medium now, it's only going to become drastically harder as time goes on. The mediums dry up or become scarce, suddenly those 3-5 people bidding on them become 20+. Yes, definitely go with the small and try to upgrade, but it's completely understandable why people would want to try for mediums right now.

[ameliaw]

Actually the truest problem is that there's just not enough supply to meet the demand on a lot of servers.

I understand the logic behind "go for what you can guarantee and then try to upgrade later". It's CLEARLY the logical choice. However, the issue here is, on the more populated servers, the current period of time is the best time to bid on mediums (lol larges). If you don't get a medium now, it's only going to become drastically harder as time goes on. The mediums dry up or become scarce, suddenly those 3-5 people bidding on them become 20+. Yes, definitely go with the small and try to upgrade, but it's completely understandable why people would want to try for mediums right now.

It might also get drastically harder to get anything later on. If you lost the chance of getting a medium on first round, secure a small in the second.

[Zebraoracle]

It might also get drastically harder to get anything later on. If you lost the chance of getting a medium on first round, secure a small in the second.

Yes, as I said I don't disagree, just explaining one of the reasons why so many people are going for non-smalls right now.

Gotta say, for a culture that keeps to itself and overall prefers solitude, forcing and spending resources on neighbourhoods instead of instanced homes makes zero sense to me.
At this point it feels more like “I chose this hill and Ill die on it” kind of situation.

Part of the issue is YoshiP had a vision for how he saw housing wards (these populated areas that are active and you always see people running around and being neighbors and whatnot). While a cute/neat vision in and of itself, with no real reason for people to really be outside in the wards outside of running to a marketboard before running back inside or doing something in your yard, this vision was destined to fail because this community ranges from vastly non-social with strangers to hanging out and/or afking in the most convenient locations (which housing wards are not).

[RitsukoSonoda]

Yes, as I said I don't disagree, just explaining one of the reasons why so many people are going for non-smalls right now.

TBH the behavior trends seen on the plot bidding after the roulette system was added just kinda revealed how much of the population wanting a house hasn't been getting one due to smol brain syndrome. I made 2 house purchases before the roulette system was added. The first was ridiculously long ago when I first bought my small plot in Lavender Beds completely uncontested when it opened despite being within eyesight of a marketboard. The second was when Shirogane first opened where I upgraded to a medium also right next to a marketboard uncontested because I chose a ward number that was not likely to see people immediately. I could have had a large to myself at that time if I'd felt inclined though lately the lack of symmetry because of the medium's stairs has been eating at me and making me think I should have gotten a large back then... lol XD