Dev Requests Housing Timers

[Yllania]

So basically you want to throw one random based system out for another random based system? How about no. What we have now isn't ideal but a lottery system would be worse.

How is a lottery worse than not being able to play a game because if you want a house you better be clicking the sign to buy it for 11 hours

[supergiz]

How is a lottery worse than not being able to play a game because if you want a house you better be clicking the sign to buy it for 11 hours

Yeah and that's just for a chance of maybe getting it b/c there are at least 2-3 other people doing the same thing on that house. The system is incredibly ridiculous and needs a revision. They are basically saying anyone with a shit to do IRL and who doesn't want to make this game their life you to basically give up any hope of getting a house.

Having done this last night, I totally agree with the RNG timer being a PITA.

I was running around the Goblet for about 2-3 hours while doing some duties in between. I was literally running around from plot to plot hoping I'd find one that was allowed me to purchase it but kept getting the dreaded "This plots isn't available for purchase" message over and over again. I ran into another player, who I guess had noticed me running around looking for plots who told me that he'd been waiting for a particular plot for around 6 hours. (as if to shoo me away)

I ended up leaving my character AFK and went to watch TV for about another hour or so. I switched over to the game, clicked on the sign and ended up getting a house in a pretty cool loacation. :-D As satisfying as it was, it was still annoying AF! This was around 9-10pm CDT on Goblin.

I get why SE implemented this...but I feel like there needs to be another safeguard for this opposed to some invisible timer.

You got really lucky being on a low pop server. On excaliber at any given time there are at least 2-3 people sometimes going up to 10 plus on an open plot. Sometimes you get lucky at very odd hours with nobody at a plot, but even when that happens it isn't long until ppl start showing up.