Solution for housing market woes

[DamienStrife]

As I sit here spamming this placard for the past 14 hours with 9 other people, all of us constantly in fear of someone strolling up to it and relocating instantly to it and making the past several hours a waste of time, I have come up with a new solution for Square Enix dev's to implement that will save player sanity and time.

A 12 or 6 hour long raffle. Interested parties buy a raffle ticket. One per FC for FC's and one per service account for people buying it for personal use.

Cost of the raffle ticket is the full price of the house. Losers are refunded by interacting with the placard after the drawing.

If there are no buyers for the raffle, the price decreases and the raffle starts over.

This alleviates people from being led to botting to do the spamming for them, being forced to mindlessly spam a placard for hours which isn't good for anyone's health, as well as allows players to do other things in game or irl while waiting for the raffle results.

Best of all, if someone relocates to the lot, I and countless others didn't just waste anywhere up to 24+ hours of our lives just because we want a place to call our home.

Please make this happen SE.

[HaelseMikiro]

How about a 24 hour auction so the richest bidder gets it? We DO need more gil sinks after all, and overpricing houses would help on any server that has full wards. No one really likes RNG anyways, so I think a raffle system would produce more salt from people who bought their tickets first and feel they deserve the house more than people who showed up at the end of the raffle and won it (although realistically those people might have been willing to camp/spam the placard in the current system). The auction system would generate salt from everyone who lost the house because it's arguably less fair that the richest person always gets the house whereas everyone would be on equal terms under the raffle or current systems, which rely primarily on RNG.