Implement a lottery for house plots

[Vladmiere]

I am not saying it is the best idea but you assume an awful lot. The current system gives some control yes but only to the top end as it stands. The lottery would shift it out of the hands of people who manipulate the system (against the tos mind you) to flip houses for a profit. I am not going into specifics but there are several third-party pipelines were such houses are advertised and when you have around 50 for sale at all times on Balmung despite how easy it should be to track and punish the people nothing is really done about it.

To say that Balmung created its problem is also twisting words wrong. It is not Balmungs fault that people who were on here for a year before ARR was even released should be forced to move if they choose not too and there is already an unfair discrepancy from one server to the next. Higher prices are proof enough of that. The amount of time it would take for certain people to get a house would still be near the same. This is only changed for the initial rush of plots to give people who have the gil for the property but not the means of time. Having to do a rush against an entire server in a game centered around casual play is going against its own themes.

And finally, server imbalances is also unfair by nature of population competing. This idea is just that an idea. It can be altered to only have a lottery for those worlds that they are constantly restricting new character creation on and still leave the smaller servers alone if need be. And yes the pool of eligible people would change because of the first come first serve setup we have now it would keep prices lower at the cost of an overall lower % for certain people who have the means and the methods to find these houses. And no our current system is quite unfair. It's the same people that get the plots for the most part. Its the norm over the exception because I have bought houses in the past from said people before it even became against the tos.