Quote Originally Posted by GeminiReed View Post
My expectation is that they'll leave them FC-only for a number of lottery rounds to ensure that as many FC's that want a house gets one.
While I do think that IS the intention, I think it will backfire.

The official rules for the housing system were released around March 30th. That includes the "members must be in the FC for 30 days" in order to place a bid.

The first round of the lottery likely helped countless FCs find their first house (assuming the 0 winner bug is addressed and those houses awarded). If the lottery system wasn't halted, we would be in lottery session #2 right now where it would be ending April 25th. However, the 3rd lottery session would see a different sort of FC start buying up plots... the FCs that quickly formed on March 30th after the announcement. Any FC formed after March 30th is not eligible for an FC plot until April 30th. At this point, that is going to be the second lottery session.

On my server, most of the FC Empyreum plots are still vacant. In part, this is due to the 0 winner bug. However, after that is resolved, there will still be plenty of plots available. And those will be snatched up by many less-legit FCs formed after March 30th.

If SE doesn't change the designation of FC wards by April 30th (which I doubt they will), we will wind up seeing many of the remaining plots on the server snatched up under little competition by fake FCs.