Please remove housing lottery and make some other way of house acquisition.

[Selsix]

1. Queue System
This is honestly worse than a lottery. People will make alts to fill the queue.

2. Auction system
Again, worse than a lottery because you're just rewarding the super rich and people who engage in RMT.

3. Pseudo-RNG
This once again is going to be worse than a standard lottery, as people who use mass alts will get exponentially more rewards in the "pity system".

Is the lottery perfect? No, you can still make alts for multiple entries of course, but there really isn't a better way to handle this in an environment with limited housing. If you ask me, they shouldn't be trying to change the lotto system and instead they should be cracking down on alts and people who own entire housing wards. Limit accounts to 1 house per server, period, if you currently have more than that? They get scheduled for demolition and you will be reimbursed.

[NegativeS]

instead they should be cracking down on alts and people who own entire housing wards. Limit accounts to 1 house per server, period, if you currently have more than that? They get scheduled for demolition and you will be reimbursed.

It really is that simple, and to this day I don't know why people push back so much against the idea.

Imagine how many "IOwn92FCHouses" there are out there who actually own 92 FC houses. I wonder how many wards would become vacant overnight if GMs started going around hitting people with Eminent Domain sticks?

Sadly, SE will never do this, because the people with the means to do so are whales so big they're only rivaled by day 1 EVE players, and we can't forget the SE mission statement:

[IOwn92FCHouses]

It really is that simple, and to this day I don't know why people push back so much against the idea.

Imagine how many "IOwn92FCHouses" there are out there who actually own 92 FC houses. I wonder how many wards would become vacant overnight if GMs started going around hitting people with Eminent Domain sticks?

Sadly, SE will never do this, because the people with the means to do so are whales so big they're only rivaled by day 1 EVE players, and we can't forget the SE mission statement:

Square knows that it can't remove the system. They don't have a choice now. Submarine hoarders like me have several service accounts and are totally legitimately checking and maintaining every submarine on each account for all our service accounts each day (pinky swear it's all legitimate logging in and manually doing it for 28 hours, 8 days a week). What if subs were changed or housing was changed? Why... Maybe mass market manipulation the crafting bots could never dream of? Maybe we could spend all our totally legitimate hours of play on maps and destroy those markets for raw Gil? Maybe we could start selling content?

We won't simply go away if subs are rendered impossible. The bigger number = better mini game will continue. Square knows this and will never willingly release us into the world.

(I'm over 100 fc houses now BTW)