People need to take responsibility for their own actions. It's not up to SE to play mom and dad to adults with zero self control.

A lottery would be a nightmare for SE to administer.

If people want to camp, let them camp. It doesn't change someone else walking up at just the right moment to snag the plot and then the camper learns a lesson.

The only thing that needs to addressed further is flippers. Making the timer apply equally to relocations and new purchases would be a start. Trying to figure out a way to prevent sale of FCs with houses would be the final step, though that may not be possible if it interferes with legit FC activity.

Quote Originally Posted by Madbunny View Post
A simple mini-game every X minutes would solve both problems.
People already scream at games requiring use of Captchas to try to deter bots. They'd be raging if they had to play a mini-game in order to try to purchase a house.

Nothing is going to stop campers in the long run so why waste effort on the problem?