TL;DR: if you feel like this post devalues your time, then I promise you won't appreciate the upcoming housing system purchasing mechanic.

I recently posted here requesting that SE improve the housing purchasing mechanic. Boy, did they drop the ball.

To clarify, I'm not delusional enough to believe that they viewed my post. I'm just framing the existential dread.

I requested that they implement a weighted lottery for house purchasing. I detailed the suggested solution explicitly and debated its merits for much longer than I should have.

To everyone's surprise, they've announced a lottery system (one drastically different from what I suggested; but that's irrelevant). As per the norm, they've detailed some alarmingly miserable design choices.

The point of improving the house purchasing mechanic is to respect the user's time.
What they've announced will only create a more convoluted system, that is still wasteful to player time investment, and even more so removes any sense of agency in the house purchasing process.

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