Stop complaining. You wanted this.

[Brygd]

I now have 0.3% of winning.

Think of the silver lining. The developers now have hard numbers of the demand for housing in the game. Never underestimate the value of data for making decisions by organizations!

[Archaell]

I now have 0.3% of winning.

That's savage. Phoenix has large plots around 1.25 - 2.5%, medium 2-4% and smalls 5-10% (in Goblet odds are like 5 times better, too many people hate Goblet lol). But let's hope they open up the FC wards soon, it's gonna get more depressing witch each cycle.

[Kenky]

See, we could have had FCFS. But you wanted this lottery. I have a feeling more wards will open up by 6.3.

We could. But FCFS (on paper) would mean nobody but bots get the plots, since they can flood the maps and lock actual players out. This has been discussed several times on this forum alone. At this particular point, I hesitate to think that the next 'recommendation' after Lottery is going to be any better than Lottery itself.

Because we can all agree that people are already upset about getting what they wanted even when people pointed out a Lottery would reduce your odds. By an alarming margin. Making demands to remove it is not going to happen, but a change is more plausible.

I'm confident to put gil down on people ranting about wanting "island sanctuary" to be instanced housing, even when XIV has said it's not going to be. At all. Period. I know that people have already been doing this, but I mean that particular thought gaining traction and becoming near unbearable to listen to.

[Lemuel81]

Sorry to burst your bubble but I still support the Lottery. I know full well that my odds of getting a house are pretty grim but we ALL have the same odds. What those of us who wanted the Lottery, was a fair system. The Lottery is it. I have no complaints about that. Where I DO have complaints is simply the sheer paucity of plots. That has nothing to do with the Lottery. It has everything to do with SE not wanting to pony up more resources to create more supply.

At its core this is the problem. From the very start SE was always limited by there resources to provide enough housing for much of the player base. Its also why inventory space and a glamour system is lackluster. ( least we got something after what 9 years..Should be like the WoW transmog system imo)

[DeNada]

They just need to flip around the ratio of FC wards against personal wards in my opinion.

There are bids that go into the hundreds in personal wards for medium plots while hundreds of medium, not to say small plots in FC wards remain unbidded simply because there's little to no FC demand.

[Avoidy]

They just need to flip around the ratio of FC wards against personal wards in my opinion.

There are bids that go into the hundreds in personal wards for medium plots while hundreds of medium, not to say small plots in FC wards remain unbidded simply because there's little to no FC demand.

This. Everyone saying tHiS iS wHaT yOu wAnTeD are purposefully ignoring the ward situation because they want to be able to say "I told you so" over nothing.
A lotto isn't perfect, and isn't what I wanted either. A lottery would've taken several cycles to get to this point (where hundreds are bidding on one plot) if every ward had been open for individual purchase. Instead we got here in 2 cycles because SE bungled it at the last second with that 6/18 split. What we need are more wards. And honestly, an instanced housing option for people who don't care about neighborhood BS. <-- This is what I've been asking for, because it addresses the supply of houses. So I'ma keep complaining.

[TwistedTea]

I'm confident to put gil down on people ranting about wanting "island sanctuary" to be instanced housing, even when XIV has said it's not going to be. At all. Period. I know that people have already been doing this, but I mean that particular thought gaining traction and becoming near unbearable to listen to.

What is unbearable is when game devs in their stubbornness keep a system on life support(limited ward housing) nearly after 10 years of it not working for the vast majority of players in terms of access.

Every 'solution' that SE has tried to fix limited ward housing with has made access worse for the majority of players.

1. Ward housing consumes more server resources than fully instanced housing.
2. Adding new wards is not a scalable, long-term solution as long as server populations keep increasing.
3. RMT housing sales are profitable because of the arbitrary, artificial scarcity that SE imposed with limited ward housing.
4. SE had initially stated that there would be no auto-demolition. Auto-demolition is a consequence of not being far-sighted.
5. Yoshi P wants a 'neighbourhood feeling' but I think a lot of players barely see their neighbors in wards.
6. Having a fully instanced housing system in the form of improved apartments or an entirely new system, alongside the existing ward housing seems to be the best compromise to make multiple groups of players happy.

[HuaTuo]

if you're so desperate to get a house, move to new datacentre. You should see empyreum on Materia lol. 3 houses per ward occupied on Bismarck and even less on Zurvan.

[Eclair_Xysha]

I'm unsure if my opinion even matters considering I bought my house since it was first released. I earned my money through spirit binding at Urth's. I do like the lottery system! Just that for FC's, I don't think it's fair that we are allowed multiple entries from one FC. At this point, it's basically, "May the richest FC win". To each their own though which is respectable because I'm one of those that don't want instance housing for my personal main. Everyone has their own cup of tea on what they want our Dev Team to do...

But what I want to see are:

1) PENTHOUSES!

2) Indoor gardening for apartments!
Like an actual way to cross breed plants and not these potted vases.

3) Increased slots especially for smalls and their yards!
Because I think their capacity is quite unfair. Decorating a small's yard can sometimes be irritating when you just need to add that "one more items" as a finishing touch, but I can't.

4) Better house skins.
God forbid side entrances like the Goblet and Lavender Beds. For example, the lovely Cafe walls.

5) And last but not least, the ability to move the "planted" stairs inside our houses?
Let me explain. I love my medium and I don't want to let it go, but ffs, I can't stand decorating sometimes with this staircase to my right as soon as I enter. It's just in my face and in the way.

Oh and of course, the thing I said about the FC lottery.

[ZefraSurtr]

6.1 isn't even here and the salt is coming in droves. Clicking the placard was horrible it was. For us homeowners that got past it. Congrats boys we now get to watch them complain about the lottery system. I have seen a number of threads begging for a lottery system and now they have given it to you and you still complain. This is exactly what you wanted. Real housing OGs know that simply clicking buy was the best shit in the world. We could have begged to have gone back to that but instead you wanted lottery. Well when 6.1 drops you'll have it. Good luck. Odds are you'll win the cactpot before you win a house. inb4 someone says clicking the placard was better.

We asked for a lottery system. We did not ask for them to also limit player housing to 20% of all plots...