Quote Originally Posted by VerdeLuck View Post
Allowing people to rush a potential FCFS ward and then pick through the lottery if they don't make it only benefits the people who once again, are around for the server restart and have a 3rd party client. They would effectively get twice the chance as everyone else as they would be there for the mad dash to get to the FCFS plots, then if they can't get one, are able to fall back onto te general lottery and get the same odds as everyone else. At that point, just make everything a lottery so people have equal chances instead of rewarding a small number of people who try to game the system.
I don't understand this attitude, if people are prepared to set alarms, take time off work or otherwise organise their time so that they can be present for a FCFS race, more power to them. It's not as if everyone doesn't have the same amount of time in which to plan to do the same?

As for the bit about there being an issue with those who miss out on the FCFS being allowed to enter a lottery being an issue, I just don't know what to say to that, I really don't. If you truly believe that EVERYBODY having incredibly high odds against them is the fairest system then I very much look forward to hearing from you after the lottery goes off.

There is nothing wrong with giving people the option to participate in FCFS and having a lottery (until everyone starts complaining about the injustice of RNG that is, of course.)

On a bright note, I predict housing demolitions to be more frequent since it will be nothing but RNG deciding who gets houses instead of the kind of people who are willing to invest time and planning into realising their housing goals. My guess is that 60-70% of the lottery winners won't even understand they need to actually use the house to keep the house!