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

[Zakuyia]

honestly 1 of 2 things needs to happen. Apartments Need to have size options that u have to pay for like comparable prices but take off due to not having front lawn, and next 2. Create an instance Zone for housing where 1 house only...........

[Pricia]

How about... more wards? And regenerate more when they get 3/4 full?

Which is really what they should have done from the start.

[yesnt]

Isn't there a whole DC with empty wards? What was the name... ah right... "Dynamis".

[Greyhawk]

So long as we have an Executive Producer who puts his ego in front of the player-base reality of the game, you won't see this change any time soon. We don't have instanced housing because that's what Yoshi-P wants - he wants those vibrant, active neighborhoods where people are seen interacting with each other on a daily basis.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen neighbors of the vast number of years I've had a house, and one of those times was with just guild mates at the same spot - the free company house.

He frankly needs to get over that neighborhood feeling, utilize the structure we have in place now and instance housing, so this stops being an entire community sore spot.

[Toutatis]

Isn't there a whole DC with empty wards? What was the name... ah right... "Dynamis".

This is not really a solution unless someone only cares about housing. Doing any group activity there is a real pain. I made characters there and have all abandoned them as well as their houses. If you want to do something with a group, you have to DC travel and that means no FC, no retainers, no Market Board, no bonuses, no linkshell with your DC friends, no use of your house, just a lot of limitations plus the DC you may want to travel to can be full. And when SE implements travel restrictions, it's like being banished to an empty land.

[yesnt]

This is not really a solution unless someone only cares about housing. Doing any group activity there is a real pain. I made characters there and have all abandoned them as well as their houses. If you want to do something with a group, you have to DC travel and that means no FC, no retainers, no Market Board, no bonuses, no linkshell with your DC friends, no use of your house, just a lot of limitations plus the DC you may want to travel to can be full. And when SE implements travel restrictions, it's like being banished to an empty land.

And why are there travel restrictions? Because NA prefers to play on servers that are overcrowded. Do you not see the problem? You could establish a new culture on Dynamis, but you don't want to.

[FuturePastNow]

I wouldn't transfer to Dynamis if they made my sub free for a year.

[Appleboops]

I'm on Diabolos which I think is a reasonably "medium" server in terms of population, not completely overcrowded but certainly not empty. As soon as I had the capital to do so I was able to get a Small House simply by checking Lav Beds and seeing which ones had no bids on them the day before the end of the bidding phase. I won the bid on my house by default, literally no one else bid and there were tons of other houses with the same situation, only a single bidder. All this to say, there are houses out there. The problem is more that everyone wants a Medium/Large house, or at least that's how it seems, but people need to recognize that those houses are a rare luxury by design - not intended to be in everyone's pocket. It's a bit like the Large Cackpot jackpot minion (whatever it's called), few people have one and it's 100% luck based. Housing lottery is the same deal, fully luck, fully fair to everyone in the sense that your odds of winning a house draw is exactly equal to every other person who bid. As for the bots, ok yea that's a problem but that's more of a cheat/exploit that needs to be fixed, it's not something wrong with the lottery system itself.

All this to say, I think the lottery system is fine. I'll keep trying to bid on M houses if/when they show up in a location I like and if I win, cool, if I don't, meh I'm ok with my small house. It does what it needs to.

[Krokov]

How about... more wards? And regenerate more when they get 3/4 full?

Which is really what they should have done from the start.

Indeed I have thought if one ward gets full they should make it so that another one gets automatically created I would say up to initially a 100 wards.

[Toutatis]

And why are there travel restrictions? Because NA prefers to play on servers that are overcrowded. Do you not see the problem? You could establish a new culture on Dynamis, but you don't want to.

Duh! It's SE that puts them up when there is too much traffic and not vice versa. They only allow travel to Dynamis and Materia like when 7.0 was released. You are really funny: propose Dynamis which is not a solution and blame players for playing in NA? Why would anyone want abandon their FC and comms with friends to go to an unpopulated server that was never allowed the chance to grow due to SE's practices unless all they care about is housing.