I honestly can't believe how badly the new zones failed to address the housing problem. I'm new to the game since COVID lockdowns so I've just reached the place where I can buy housing. I spent the last month saving 4.5 million and hoped to buy a plot to see this system. I set an alarm to wake up at 3:45 AM to be ready when the patch went live. I downloaded the patch and then got into a que 1000 spots long on my low population server. By the time I got onto the game at 4:30 AM everything was gone. I then spent about 5-6 hours running around trying to grab housing against the random timer without success.

SE's "solution" to the lack of housing didn't last for 30 min in the middle of the night. They obviously need somewhere between 3 and 10 times more housing plots if there are 1000's of people snatching it all in the middle of the night. They need to fix this system otherwise they are going to lose people to games with better systems.