You are never going to get a house

[Pablomaldito]

If you didn't already get a personal house, you are never going to get a house under the current housing ward system. That sentiment is not negativity or pessimism. It's simply the reality of the numbers you are up against.

I saw at least 10 bids per personal house towards the end of the lottery - many with more. So we can make a very conservative estimate that the 360 available houses had 3600 bidders. That leaves 3240 losing bidders. Houses are not going to be available in these numbers for a very long time. They're only going to pop up for sale 1 or 2 at a time rare intervals, and even rarer still whenever autodemolish is turned off. Every time a house goes on sale, it will definitely have hundreds or even thousands of bidders. At those odds, you can go a lifetime without ever getting a house.

Do not let others encourage you with false hope. The words "Well I got a house, don't give up!" do absolutely nothing to mitigate the insurmountable odds against you.

This is not a failure of the lottery system. It is still an improvement over the old system, in which the only ways to get a house were through dysfunctional behavior (camping a placard for hours) or by cheating with a bot. Though lottery system is an improvement over the system it replaced, it cannot fix a housing system that is broken to the core.

The lottery system has laid bare the inadequacy of the housing wards to meet the needs of the players. Even changing the allocation % between FC and personal wards would not have fixed the problem. In the extreme case of making all 24 wards personal only, the majority of bidders would still be left without a house, and you are back in the same scenario of having hundreds of bids every time a single house comes up for sale. Until there is instanced housing, remember: You are never going to get a house. For over 90% of you, my prediction is correct.