Support for FCFS housing in 6.1

[Erisiel]

I have quite a few friends that are disappointed that FCFS will only be instated if there's enough demand for it. Many people I know were looking forward to the housing rush as it was likely going to be their best/only shot at owning a house.

Since the devs are looking for feedback, I'd like to show support for a few wards being FCFS. Even if it was 2 FC wards and 2 personal wards, I think that would be enough of a consolation prize for lower population servers. At least that way, people would have the opportunity to be able to log in and buy a house, rather than leave it to random chance. Simply something so all the people ready and eager for FCFS will have their chance. (And failing that, they can enter the lotto.)

All that being said, if they could separate FC workshops from requiring housing, that would be a great boon for smaller FCs that haven't been able to get a house.

[SweetPete]

I’m sorry but no. All lottery will be the way to go. Everyone will get a fair chance for once. Won’t have to wake up at 3-4am to try to beat the rush and risk the game crashing constantly. No thank you. Lottery only please.

[Kyssa]

Nope, does not have my support- lottery please.

People have jobs, and kids and lives outside of this game and it would be nice to be able to enjoy them all.

[Knot_D]

No thank you, you third-party launcher users gonna have advantage to login first and snatch the large house immediately with the relocation...

[VerdeLuck]

No thanks, I'd like to have a chance at owning a house and getting access to the exclusive housing features. I don't want to miss out on housing because I didn't wake up at 4am or sit around clicking a sign for 12 hours.

[ForteNightshade]

No thanks, I'd like to have a chance at owning a house and getting access to the exclusive housing features. I don't want to miss out on housing because I didn't wake up at 4am or sit around clicking a sign for 12 hours.

New wards are purchasable immediately. You aren't clicking a placard for more than two seconds if you want a house. The whole click spamming only occurs with houses that go back on the market.

[Nezerius]

No thanks, I'd like to have a chance at owning a house and getting access to the exclusive housing features. I don't want to miss out on housing because I didn't wake up at 4am or sit around clicking a sign for 12 hours.

Guessing you've only read the title? OP is asking for a few wards to be using the FCFS system, not for the entire new housing area to use the FCFS system. A few wards won't suddenly cause you to miss out on participating in the lottery system.

I think it's fair to have a few wards using the FCFS, with the majority using the lottery system. Means the people who want to, can try their hand at a housing rush. Meanwhile, the rest can just enter the lottery on one of the many lottery plots.
Either way, the forums will still end up getting flooded with complaints. The only difference being that most of them will be about RNG, rather than others being faster.

[HyperiusUltima]

The only difference being that most of them will be about RNG, rather than others being faster.

There's your issue. The moment housing becomes available, the housing bots get RIGHT ON IT like moths to a flame. I've seen them straight teleport to the place right when it's been opened, and they've been able to snatch it up before any other player can get to it.

While a housing rush was a natural thing since Shirogane opened up, I'm full support for the Lottery System that their team has made. The Lottery System also heavily taxes bots in the fact that it's at a major operating loss for the person handling his army of bots, so it helps make it that much harder for them to just steal the plot outright and try to sell it via RMT.

[Nezerius]

There's your issue. The moment housing becomes available, the housing bots get RIGHT ON IT like moths to a flame. I've seen them straight teleport to the place right when it's been opened, and they've been able to snatch it up before any other player can get to it.

While a housing rush was a natural thing since Shirogane opened up, I'm full support for the Lottery System that their team has made. The Lottery System also heavily taxes bots in the fact that it's at a major operating loss for the person handling his army of bots, so it helps make it that much harder for them to just steal the plot outright and try to sell it via RMT.

Your post makes it sound like the system can only be FCFS or the lottery system. Meanwhile, Yoshi-P himself has stated that the team can customize each plot on what system is used to purchase it.
As for the issue on housing bots, that's just something the players in favor of having a few FCFS housing wards will have to contend with. Meanwhile, the majority of the wards would still be using the lottery system.

[geekgirl101]

Your post makes it sound like the system can only be FCFS or the lottery system.

I've seen this kind of behaviour on a lot of posts, especially some I made in the past. People can't seem to grasp that not everything is binary and completely miss the point entirely. That said I am completely in favour of not having FCFS come back. I was there when it was in Shirogane and trying to log in within 3 minutes of the servers coming up was a nightmare of lobby errors and long queues before I finally got in the game to only find 1 unclaimed house throughout the whole of my server, half the ones people in my FC had their eyes set on that were close to the FC house were snapped up by bots and were unoccupied for months. FCFS is only giving houses to bots and house flippers. There won't be any choice of FCFS and lottery for buyers when there are no houses on FCFS wards to buy as soon as the servers open.