Housing: Purchase Timer - Alternative Idea

[Penthea]

The things above were a suggestion, and one of them was a bonus for "first time buyers" meaning, new players. How is there blatant favoritism at all, when those were a few options for potential bonuses that could be applied to literally anyone, new player, or veteran. Rather that balking at the idea and pushing it off the table, why not make a suggestion for how it can be tweaked, improved, etc?

My suggestion was at the end of my post.

I think a lottery system would be awful so my suggestion to improve it would be to have none at all. As for the favouritism maybe have a look at the bonuses you posted yourself. They appear to be designed to increase the odds of players with specific circumstances.

While placards do favour certain types of players, they were not designed with the intention of doing so. Your suggested bonuses would be designed with that intention.

The way the system is now is basically a lottery anyways

Yes it is, which is why replacing it with another lottery is not a solution.

making it an actual lottery just removes people botting, and gives more players a chance at a house. It would be a better system on those grounds alone.

It would vastly increase the competition on plots on highly populated servers. It would only improve the chances for players who have never engaged in placard spam. Those who did engage in placard spam would actually have a smaller chance because the amount of competition would increase due to the ease of entering a lottery. The odds of winning on the likes of Balmung would be insanely low. It's a very old server filled with veterans who never had a house.

I am not advocating for placard spam, I think it's horrendous. I think it's a disgrace that this is what a lot of people have to do to even have a chance to get a house. However I think the lottery idea would be equally disgraceful. I absolutely do not support any form of rng when it comes to housing.