Lottery Bad Luck Protection

[Reinha]

Lich which seems like one of the more populated worlds in Europe, the only times you had literally hundreds of tickets was when you had literally 1 medium crop up all because the devs have disabled auto demolition and adding more wards in the future, it would likely result in most people eventually getting what they want, or at least being happy with what they have, or give them more hope at getting what they want.

Lich has houses available for personal bidders, so you clearly just want a system that would give an advantage when competing for the better and bigger plots. An advantage that would be unfair, because you are not more deserving of a medium or a large plot just because you really want one. If there are 0 bid plots available then anyone can get a house, and if anyone can get a house they don't need bad luck protection.

[Elevin]

Lich has houses available for personal bidders, so you clearly just want a system that would give an advantage when competing for the better and bigger plots. An advantage that would be unfair, because you are not more deserving of a medium or a large plot just because you really want one. If there are 0 bid plots available then anyone can get a house, and if anyone can get a house they don't need bad luck protection.

Indeed, I do want a system that gives better odds to persistent players. You see all the salty posts around and admittedly I am salty after losing several mediums to people that have left them to rot since the lottery system first started and they clearly had no interest in housing in the first place, yet got lucky and won. And just checked the last 2 mediums I lost on...both houses have no gardens, one of them has no aetheryte and both of them have no summoning bells inside, nor decorations. Quite frankly, it's depressing for myself and others who are genuinely interested and love housing that you can bang your head against a brick wall every 9 days because your 20th attempt on a house amounted to nothing whilst some first timer comes along and wins...

[Reinha]

Indeed, I do want a system that gives better odds to persistent players. You see all the salty posts around and admittedly I am salty after losing several mediums to people that have left them to rot since the lottery system first started and they clearly had no interest in housing in the first place, yet got lucky and won. And just checked the last 2 mediums I lost on...both houses have no gardens, one of them has no aetheryte and both of them have no summoning bells inside, nor decorations. Quite frankly, it's depressing for myself and others who are genuinely interested and love housing that you can bang your head against a brick wall every 9 days because your 20th attempt on a house amounted to nothing whilst some first timer comes along and wins...

You don't know that they are first timers or that they aren't going to decorate at some point. There's no reason to get angry at how other people choose to play the game. They have to bid all the time because in a random system there is no knowing when they're going to win, and sometimes people win when they are busy with other things. Your suggestion would further encourage people to keep bidding even if they are not that interested in housing at the moment.

What you are asking for is a queue thinking you will be at the front of it, which is basically the most convenient and beneficial system for you. What if bad luck protection was only offered to people who have been playing for more than 6 years and have never owned a house? Would you still want their bid to have more weight than yours on those mediums you are looking for?

[Seraphor]

Indeed, I do want a system that gives better odds to persistent players. You see all the salty posts around and admittedly I am salty after losing several mediums to people that have left them to rot since the lottery system first started and they clearly had no interest in housing in the first place, yet got lucky and won. And just checked the last 2 mediums I lost on...both houses have no gardens, one of them has no aetheryte and both of them have no summoning bells inside, nor decorations. Quite frankly, it's depressing for myself and others who are genuinely interested and love housing that you can bang your head against a brick wall every 9 days because your 20th attempt on a house amounted to nothing whilst some first timer comes along and wins...

Persistent players do already have better odds through the nature of being persistent.
If you bid for a plot in two separate rounds of lottery, you already have twice the chances of someone who bid in one round of the lottery.
Every 9 days you can roll the dice again, gaining one additional chance to win a plot. Each bid in each subsequent round is another ticket.

You might only have a small chance of winning, lets say there's 10 bids on average so it's 10%. Well you play 10 rounds and statistically you'll win one of them.

And yes, it may be depressing, but what people do with their plot is 100% their business. If they keep their house locked up and their garden is empty except for an aetheryte, that's their choice. You can't tell people what to do with their houses, any more than someone could come along and tell you how to decorate yours.
It would be wonderful if everyone would decorate their gardens and open up their houses for visitors, but you can't make them.