Dev Requests Housing Timers

[Shougun]

Honestly if they want to keep it a random system, at least make this a lottery. We all pay the plot price up front, get thrown into a pile, and can get on with our lives while praying RNGesus favors us. If it does, hurray - we got a house without wasting our lives and playtime clicking a placard like mindless drones! If it doesn't, we get our money refunded and just try again at the next one.

I hate the randomness of this, but at least make it so we aren't wasting actual playtime trying for a chance at a house because SE refuses to make a better system. I'd be a lot happier with a lotto than this hidden timer BS.

I think this is a good patch even if it introduces a different type of stress (will you win or not...), since the stress of waiting at the board and losing to a sudden relocation seems to be quite a bit higher (investing hours staring at a placard sounds...... lovely.. lol). Core issue will continue to be housing system itself though, so we've just traded one type of stress for another. I do think a system that helps prevent reselling is helpful though so I don't want to see the placard thing go away at least until the housing system itself is at a point this doesn't need to be (so the lottery style might be a better replacement of the waiting timer placard).

Of course relocation needs to be on the lottery as well otherwise people enter and then later it's like "haha jk, nvm you didn't actually enter" lol.

To be clear this replaces the waiting timer, so if the lot has been open long enough its just an open lot.