Hello everyone, I have some questions about housing on the new OCE servers.

So I'm an Australian who's been playing FFXIV for a long time on NA servers and on Tonberry, struggling with latency issues, especially in raiding content. I'm excited about finally having servers located in Australia, having much better latency, and playing with people in my timezone. I also look forward to housing as I love decorating. So this brings me to my questions:

- as I understand the new housing lottery system, for individual plots, players can only apply once, with one ticket, on one single plot, and they cannot change their minds, select other plots or pull out of the lottery; is that correct?

- this one single lottery ticket, how exactly does it work? is it one single lottery ticket per character? or is it per server? or per data centre? or per whole account? from what I read so far, it said one single lottery ticket per character, but then I have to ask this next:

- if it is indeed one single lottery ticket per character, then does that mean that people could use multiple characters, buying one lottery ticket with each of those characters that meet the conditions? because we are allowed 8 characters per server, so theoretically, could people use all 8 characters on a given server getting one lottery ticket for each of their 8 characters? and given that the data centre Materia currently has 5 servers, if we can make 8 characters on each server, then is it possible, in theory, for some people to have as many as 40 different characters and get one single lottery ticket on each of their 40 characters in the hopes that they will manage to get one plot on whichever server? in theory is that possible? and if yes, do you think that most people will use more than one character to buy tickets?

- also, since we will have 5 earth days to apply for one plot on a/each character, do you think that most people will just wait until late in the 4th day or until the last hours of the 5th day to actually put in their tickets so they can choose the plots with the fewest applicants?

- and finally, if people use multiple characters in the lottery and they end up winning 2 or more plots on the same server, I assume, they will have to choose 1 single plot and give up the rest, correct? but what if they use multiple characters across multiple servers, say they have 5 characters, one on each Materia server, and they enter the lottery with all those 5 characters and 2 characters from 2 different servers end up winning the lottery, then is it possible for that person to keep both plots?

I'm just trying to understand what this all means, especially for us on Materia. I think that SE was a bit vague when they said we could only buy one single ticket on a character. Any clarifications would be very welcome. Thank you for your time.