Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Where is SE encouraging the player base to camp placards? Please provide links to statements by SE employees encouraging players to spam click placards for up to 24 hours in attempts to purchase a house.

Oh, right. They aren't.
SE don't explicitly say "you should chain pull trash at max lvl" and yet that is the standard among the community. SE encourage this attitude by creating trash that is weak enough that it can be done, and by making enmity generation a lot easier than before. People wouldn't be camping placards for hours at a time if the timer did not last for hours at a time. Furthermore botting with the placard is so popular because it's the most efficient way to do it. Where have we heard something like this before? Oh yea many players are constantly saying that multi-pack pulls are more efficient so that's why they do it.

Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
You said yourself in another post last year. The timer and the way some players will camp placards is a symptom not the problem. The problem is the lack of houses compared to the number of players that want to own a house. Instead of focusing on the symptom, we should be focusing on correcting the problem.
This does not mean I said I do not think the sort of behaviour that we see surrounding placards isn't problematic. It means that I recognise that the placard is a band aid fix on a problem that is in dire need of far larger change. I would prefer the root problem to be fixed than just the placard. I said it many times before, I even said it earlier this week in another thread. My opinion on this hasn't changed.