Quote Originally Posted by Nepentha View Post
Predictably... Our rat, having absolutely no freaking clue when it'd get a pellet, never stopped pressing it.
Yeah, I don't know what SE expected other than what they got. As you say, the results are predictable.

People need to be given information for their own good, or they hurt themselves learning the hard way. The timer is not explained in detail anywhere by SE, leaving first time house buyers to depend on veteran players for advice. Even the advice of veteran players is just "click or use a controller for 4 hours straight over and over again." And of course the more desperate players ignore that advice and continue to click closer to the full 24 hours of the timer, over and over again.

Yoshi P says they will consider a lottery, and I really hope they find a way to keep the bots from taking an unfair advantage from it. Barring that, and barring the "enough houses for everyone" hope- I'm starting to think the best suggestion rolling around lately is Themarvin and the "3 placard clicks per day" idea. It would force all of us to use the timer as SE intended. Check and see, come back much later. Even the bots would not be able to overpower such a system. I didn't love the idea at first, but I'm coming around.