Implement a lottery for house plots

[Vrankyl]

Problems with this idea. 1) There is a potential for the system to award all houses to individual players and none to FCs. This would of course result in a massive backlash, just like it would if it did the exact reverse. Yet if we make it a weighted system it is no longer 'fair' to everyone or random. Instead it is a system based on what SE determines a reasonable factor to be awarded a house, which may differ from ours. 2) Alts. Once again if you make it weighted to exclude those who already own plots on other characters then it is no longer a lottery system but a weighted system with predetermined qualifications needed to be awarded a plot. And again, this would be qualifications determined by SE not us. 3) If you don't think people wouldn't game the system by using alts then clearly you haven't been paying attention. If people didn't game the system then two people would NEVER have purchased an entire ward for themselves the way they did on Mateus.

[LittleSparrow]

If people didn't game the system then two people would NEVER have purchased an entire ward for themselves the way they did on Mateus.

I'm personally a big fan of those people. They worked hard for it and truthfully, I would do the same if I had the Gil.

Then again, they could've just RMT'd the Gil.

[Vladmiere]

Problems with this idea. 1) There is a potential for the system to award all houses to individual players and none to FCs. This would of course result in a massive backlash, just like it would if it did the exact reverse. Yet if we make it a weighted system it is no longer 'fair' to everyone or random. Instead it is a system based on what SE determines a reasonable factor to be awarded a house, which may differ from ours. 2) Alts. Once again if you make it weighted to exclude those who already own plots on other characters then it is no longer a lottery system but a weighted system with predetermined qualifications needed to be awarded a plot. And again, this would be qualifications determined by SE not us. 3) If you don't think people wouldn't game the system by using alts then clearly you haven't been paying attention. If people didn't game the system then two people would NEVER have purchased an entire ward for themselves the way they did on Mateus.

That is a plausible argument. Sadly yes SE would have to place restrictions to try to prevent people from gaming the system. The example on Mateus is not valid because those plots were open for practically years. They bought them up after a year and half of the spots being untouched and spent hundreds of hours decorating them which has nothing to do with places without housing for people. Anything involving mankind will never truly be fair but a well thought out lottery system is still heads and bounds more fair then our current system on crowded servers.

The only reason those from Mateus are seeing a bit of unwanted attention now is because the server is quickly becoming a boon server because of the other servers being closed off.