Instanced Housing. We're angry!

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there is always a small house available somewhere, just like in real life you have to start somewhere.

Except when the only small house that's available is the first one to show up in a week and has 10+ campers using bots/macros to try to obtain it~ (Hello, Hyperion!)

It's not a case of people refusing to settle, it's a case that some can't get the small that they're trying for, and have missed out on countless houses and spent hours upon hours camping for it. I wish people would stop trying to claim that players are lazy when the truth of it is that there aren't enough houses for those that want them on some servers. Jumping ship isn't always an option either - they may have well-established friend groups etc. that keep them tied to a server.
I'm saying this as someone who started with a small, and ended up with a large house for myself and for my FC. I will be the first to admit that it wasn't "hard work" that got the houses - it was an obscene amount of luck, and that's not right.