so after sitting on the phone with Square Enix support on the customer service line i was told specifically that this RNG system was created specifically to prevent people from buying multiple plots, and to prevent people from camping in the housing areas to try to get a house... which... is way counter-intuitive.

I spent 11+ hours last night attempting to get a house for my free company only to have 2 places snatched up right from under me, people who are in free companies, with free company houses, but they bought it for themselves. So in both cases square missed the mark here.

Simple solution: If your free company owns a house, you cannot own an individual house because you already have one in your free company. OR better yet, get an apartment for your individual owned home. The fact that there is an RNG timer makes it an incentive for people to camp. more so now. Or as an alternative. Make it so specific districts can be ONLY bought by free companies. and another for individual owners

The fact that i can look at a residential listing in the ward and find only 7 of 60 houses owned by free companies is absolutely ridiculous and often times some of those individual homes are owned by people who also have a free company house. this is in no way fair to the rest of the player base and honestly sitting there for hours on end and not being able to play the game to try to get a house is absurd.

so in summation options are as follows:

A: code in that if your free company owns a house, you cannot buy an individual home.

B: Same as above but allow personal apartments.

or C: Make a section of wards where you can only buy a house if you are buying as a free company, and a section where you can buy as an individual buyer.

In doing those you can easily stem the flow of camping because you just made a whole bunch of homes available to everyone, and the limiting factor involved in either separation or outright stopping multiple homes also makes it so that it would stem purchases by RMT.

At this juncture I cant give my free company a place to settle in and display any of our hard work because of this housing issue. Its downright unfair.