House camping function

[Thorncraft]

instead of people killing themselves to camp a house for 40 hours, I wonder if it would be possible to have a house-camp button
you park your character there, click "camp", and then you can physically leave your computer. when the timer triggers, 1 random player in "Camp" mode gets picked and gets that house.
it's functionally the same as the current system, except you don't have to kill yourself sitting there pressing 2 buttons until someone relocates to the plot you are at.
if this was implementable, it seems to me that bots and macros would have no more advantage than anyone else, everyone would have the same chance to lock their character into a plot and have a chance of getting it.

If you won the house is there a confirmation button? Would that need to be clicked in a certain amount of time? Or pay up front and the house is auto-assigned to the winning character, everyone else 'camping' is refunded? Can players still relocate while you're camping? How long are the timers for waiting for the plot? This is a really neat idea btw

[artlessknave]

If you won the house is there a confirmation button? Would that need to be clicked in a certain amount of time? Or pay up front and the house is auto-assigned to the winning character, everyone else 'camping' is refunded? Can players still relocate while you're camping? How long are the timers for waiting for the plot? This is a really neat idea btw

be completely prepared to buy it as soon as the timer expires, wether as a deposit or insta pay would depend on what can actually be implemented.
again, as close to existing as possible so that it neither changes the current flow so SE might actually do it while simple enough that spagetti code might not be a problem and SE might *actually* do it.
relocation was originally out of scope so would work the same without a better idea. the idea was to get rid of the placard spamming that punishes real players while being ludicrously easy to automate. a ~10 line script is all it takes. if all you did was park your toon there for the night and somebody relocated, oh well, you weren't there spamming the placard for 22 hours, so while it sucks...it doesnt

suck.

absolute.

balls.

like the current system. if I were implenting it, i would be looking for ideas, but if I were implementing it I would be rebuilding the thing or creating instanced housing. I want a treehouse in raktika. I just like the idea.