Addressing the locked plots and random timers...

[Madbunny]

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?

I never said this would be required but optional and i think its fair, e.g. effort vs reward. So if someone doesnt want to play this mini-game nothing will change for him, but if someone decided to sit in front of the plot for hours because the house justify this time then lets reward those players... again if they chose to "apply" for the bonus. I think its really unfair that someone was sitting there for countless hours and then he lost the plot because of some random&stupid reason, like bathroom, coffee, drink, kiss the wife for goodnight, etc. In this way those people will get just a little advantage over others who spend 1/10 of the time waiting or literally were so lucky to jump in the right time.