Quote Originally Posted by Elevin View Post
I thought people were joking with the whole clicking the placard thing being a good system, but clearly you guys aren't. Placard clicking was definitely a terrible system and the lottery system should have been implemented years ago as soon as there were signs of a housing shortage. Lets face it, it's an open secret that most people used dubious ways to get houses and the devs knew it too just like they aren't blind to all the plugins/mods and even are looking at implementing quality of life elements from plugins. And the only real winners of the placard clicking were those who used dubious methods of automation who were able to at least monitor their computer all day... which begs the question that anyone still in favour of that system most definitely used those methods.

Now, the lottery does indeed suck a lot of the time, especially when you can spend a year bidding on every plot and lose each time, then a first timer comes along and wins. More salt in the wound when you go back weeks/months later and the place hasn't been touched, not even a summoning bell.

Hence why I proposed a system where you increase the amount of tickets after each failed bid until you win at which point it resets. Is it open for abuse as people suggest? Yes and no, people could inadvertently screw themselves over by trying to rack up tickets and then win a plot they actually didn't want which would reset their tickets back to 1. This definitely would work on normal realms. Even on 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.

Also, add an upstairs to small houses. :3
I would never ask for the Placard clicking back, but I certainly feel like it was a strong barrier to entry for people who "really" wanted a house. It saddens me to see people bid on plots; then do nothing with them, or simply abandon it the following week, and some don't even claim their plot when the lottery period ends.

I wish for more barriers to entering the lottery, as the demand for plots is still insanely high.