I really encourage people to not give up and continue to check the city aetheryte shards early in the morning. Around 2:30AM Central a friend of mine found theirself a open medium plot in the Goblet on Balmung Janurary 20th

and Today around 8:20AM cst I just found myself a open small plot that I purchased. Being on Balmung I thought I'd never see the day of being able to own a home on this server. Every patch they released with homes always left me so depressed and sad because they would get ate up in minutes.

Anyway not trying to make this long winded! I'm just saying even on the most crowded servers still take the extra 5 minutes to port to all the cities and have a look!