Housing failure... Again, and a few other comments

[Athanisia]

MOST have been an FC as, again, this was the optimal way to trade houses. Bots did not get excluded. And certainly you don't even believe yourself when you imply bots were just sitting around kicking rocks before the announcement. We were told of the lottery system, the new housing area, and a potential FC age requirement (although technically defined later) far before. Anyone with a few neurons would think it wise to prepare for these factors. With the large majority of plots being given to FCs, again, at the expense of player plots, this only increases their odds. To say nothing of how unlikely all those wards will be effectively filled by legitimate FCs in general, offering more legroom for bots.

I think it's silly to say that bots are excluded when the method they always used is suddenly unviable in an ecosystem where that method has not only been unregulated, but outright encouraged.

Why does Yoshi and his crew insist on playing this insipid game of cat and mouse with supply and demand of houses? Instanced housing. I won't stop crying for it. It's spawned into the golden standard for a reason and we're witnessing why it overtook this archaic, primitive nonsense that only exists because, from what I hear, is the dev's pining nostalgia.

You are forgetting the fact that it takes 30 days after a person joins an FC to be given leadership. Which means said buyer will still have to wait to obtain what they paid a bot for. So unless the owner is able to leave the FC and the new member becomes owner (hoping that loophole isn't the case) they would still have to wait which no normal "smart" person would give a bot hundreds of thousands of gil to buy an FC with house of they have to wait 30 days just to get rid of the bot and take leader privileges. But, alas who knows... some people have more gil then brains.