Such devastation... this was NOT my intention...

[Avatre]

That is correct, and also a moot point. It doesn't contradict my statement that your overall time investment isn't compensated or factored in the purchasing process.

Process will be as follows(most likely):

Bid on housing plot>If housing plot won, build house in allotted time frame; if you don't win, interact with placard to recover money

There was nothing saying you had to stay at the house and do nothing but stare at the vacant lot until the plot is awarded to someone. Go do something while it's doing it's thing....no wasted time there, except the MAYBE 3 minutes to get to and interact with the placard

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Process will be as follows(most likely):

Bid on housing plot>If housing plot won, build house in allotted time frame; if you don't win, interact with placard to recover money

There was nothing saying you had to stay at the house and do nothing but stare at the vacant lot until the plot is awarded to someone. Go do something while it's doing it's thing....no wasted time there, except the MAYBE 3 minutes to get to and interact with the placard

There is plenty of wasted time, in that you are limited to and locked into committing to one plot purchase at a time, and that plot purchase is arbitrarily gated for days. Whereas the lifecycle of a current plot is hours.

As I wrote in the concession of my post that you probably didn't read in its entirety, it does solve the issue of freeing the player to play the game. But it replaces it with an even greater time investment and devaluation of the player's time therein.