Bad luck protection for the housing lottery.

[Miralyth]

I would like to see an implementation of poor luck protection to the housing lottery, sort of like how Bozja duels work: the more often you lose the lottery for a house, the more likely you are to win your next attempt. These increasing odds should probably be separated by housing size, I think, so that people don't run around building it up on smalls and then put in for a large.

I feel like this would go a long way to make the removal of housing relocation hurt less for those of us who want to upgrade housing sizes or work toward a specific plot.

[Titor]

I like this idea, even if it was just a small increase everytime, it can help people kinda build up to getting a plot if they are unlucky.

[Noox-115]

I agree, even in the game I got bad luck for loot rolls even if I "Need" it and I just want to get my own house to just be alone in a corner but nope nothing every time and it doesn't help that's its like once a week for plot and that we are 98 player fighting for it. I never thought a game could almost have like an IRL housing problem not sure I want that kind of immersion

[KhudusQestir]

How does that work exactly with this size scale and with personals?

[Silverbane]

Long term, the proposed system is not fair to new players.

You want better odds in the lottery?
Level more characters to Lvl 50 and GC 2nd Lt. so you can make more entries in each lottery. It takes less than a week to get a character to this level (assuming you don't just buy the levels from Mog station) and you get 8 characters per world per account with a regular subscription.

That's what I've done, and as a result I currently have 8 entries in the lottery for a small plot on Faerie.
I've also got about 115 million gil set aside at the moment for making lottery entries, for a medium lot if one I want becomes available. Eventually I intend to increase that to 160 million so I can enter the lottery 8 times even on the most expensive medium lot.

[Divinemights]

Oh lord............
It is actually happening.......
Do you guys even processing a little bit before post?
Every freaking lottery entry means they lost their last round; so literally everyone is your so called "bad luck"
What would this "bad luck protection" would do when literally every entry need one?
Seriously?

[Shibi]

It's a bit of a silly idea, as everyone will have bad luck tickets... except a new player.

Level more characters to Lvl 50 and GC 2nd Lt....That's what I've done, and as a result I currently have 8 entries in the lottery for a small plot on Faerie.

What happens if one of your alts wins? You can't tenant a house from an alt to a main.

[Reinha]

That would turn it less like a lottery and more like a queue. No thanks. What we need is something that allows players to put in effort and earn their house. Sadly Ishgard restoration was not it.

[Silverbane]

Regarding me having 8 characters with 8 entries in the lottery ...

What happens if one of your alts wins? You can't tenant a house from an alt to a main.

Whoever wins the lottery becomes my "main" as far as the house is concerned.
And three of my spouse's alts will be the tenants ... that's why I want it in fact.

[Jojoya]

Bad luck protection does not work when it's players competing directly against players for a limited resource.

If you want some sort of priority system ask for a waiting list. That way you'll know when you 573rd in line for the next available house.