Housing!! Do you Like the New Way?

[Katori96]

My biggest issue is the walk of shame to reclaim ur Gil from a lost house. The awkward staring from the house winner is painful

[Avatre]

If you botted you deserved to have your gil taken lmao

Oh, I'm not denying that those who tried to bot their way into a house and lost their money that way deserved it. Anyone who bots deserves to lose out on everything honestly. Be it super rare drops when they are actually there playing, or their whole account if the task force ends up getting enough evidence to permanently ban them

[Kaurhz]

I don't like it very much, but in terms of acquiring houses, it is the lesser of the 2 evils, I think. In an ideal universe, we'd all have the option to get one without these mundane systems, but we don't.

[Palslow]

if we use your idea then only rich people can get housing....and all the poor people just die alone on the street without a home. thanks..how kind of you!

[Darthgummibear]

You could argue that it's "better", but the ward system is pretty awful on it's own.

[DeNada]

Yes, lottery is so much better than placard clicking since it respects the players time more.

Also, I remember those people who were doom mongering about how lottery is like trying to win the jumbo cactpot and there will be hundreds or thousands of entrants per plot.

Turns out that there's about less than 10 entrants per plot on average, even for personal plots. Turns out that their predictions are ridiculous and we have not heard from them since.

[Azuri]

I haven't bothered interacting with housing before at all. With lottery I went to a plot, put a bid in and went on with my day. I didn't win. So I just picked my gil back and left. No big deal. It's still better than never touching the system at all.

Also lol at the auction thing. You underestimate how worthless gil is. We'd need a tiebreaker system for when multiple players put their bid at gil-cap.

[Velnora]

They could just create the ability so that anybody that wanted a house, could get one. Ya know, like all other games that have housing.

[Syln]

My biggest issue is the walk of shame to reclaim ur Gil from a lost house. The awkward staring from the house winner is painful

I kind of felt bad for 3 out of 8 bidder that i saw taking back their gils in front of my house while i was putting trees and stuff in my garden.

[Rilifane]

Yes, lottery is so much better than placard clicking since it respects the players time more.

Also, I remember those people who were doom mongering about how lottery is like trying to win the jumbo cactpot and there will be hundreds or thousands of entrants per plot.

Turns out that there's about less than 10 entrants per plot on average, even for personal plots. Turns out that their predictions are ridiculous and we have not heard from them since.

10 on average right after a new district releases is actually a lot and it's for the first round. And don't forget that many people put their name in for their FC and pushed back getting a private house for it. Everyone who didn't win can now try again... with the few plots that are vacant again because someone relocated - if they're not in an FC ward, that is.
Before Empyreum release you generally had about 5-10 dedicated campers on a placard and we had maybe 2-3 plots up at a time.

So tell me again how there isn't more competition now that it doesn't involve spending your entire night spam-clicking a placard?
The competition has absolutely gone up. You just didn't do the math to see it.