List of Concerns Regarding LL Housing News

[lorthera]

• Entries are locked to one per player. Is this one per ACCOUNT? Or one per CHARACTER? If it is one per character, this may raise issues with people inflating their FC numbers with their own alts. This also will be a continuation of what players are doing to abuse our current system. This will only continue current problems. Consider either putting a timer on how many entries you can enter in a time period. Consider making it one entry per account.
  
• In regards to FC restrictions being limited to newer members, a solid timeframe hasn't been given for how long a player is considered "new". Please consider making this timeframe something considerably long like a couple weeks to even a month. While this will unfortunately ruin the player to player resale market, I do believe that if people are truly dedicated to a transaction they will stick through with it. The good in this that it will demolish bad faith players attempting to flip FCs purely for profit. It will significantly cut into RMT and botting activity with housing, since majority of these bad faith players seem to be doing it for the profit (from what I have noticed, at least).
  
• While I do think some wards should be open to FCFS, please at least explain how the "hidden timer" behind plots works before bringing the FCFS system back. You are currently having players sit at placards for hours on end only for plots to consistently sell at the 10-14hr mark. From what I can gather, this probably partly why the lottery system was implemented. Majority, if not all, of the knowledge about the hidden timer is [community sourced]. Players shouldn't need to join a Discord server in order to understand how to engage with your content on a healthy level.
  
• I absolutely appreciate the work all the devs do for us housing fans. In response to the Q&A question asking for new areas, please don't do that. Focus on what we have currently. Make that better. Insert something here about having a stable foundation before expanding outwards. That sort of thing.
  
• As respectfully as I can say it, it's disappointing that the purchase guide is as vague as it is. It's disappointing that I have spent years educating people on things that should have been outlined on the main page in the first place. It's current vagueness literally leads towards people getting injuries IRL due to how long they're attempting for a house. Fix this if you plan on continuing our current FCFS system. If you want people to camp that long, please just at least say outright "plots will come up for purchase at a random time between (x) and (y)."
  
• I made a thread about this a few months ago, but apartments on my server (Balmung) are completely full. Apartments on Mateus are also reaching this level. While Empyreum will open up a lot of apartments for us, please consider a way to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future. Potentially adding new wings to apartment buildings when they reach capacity? Making apartments have a demo timer of (x) years? etc.
  
• EDIT: Additionally I'd like to add. Make it so that if your character is an active leader of a free company (or simply just a member or a free company), said character can not be deleted.