Quote Originally Posted by Ransu View Post
Also, plots are empty right now because of the lottery bug. No one can transfer/buy anything atm.
I'm on a small server. I went around and checked the number of bids on some of the FC houses, and you were able to check even with the zero bug happening. Our wards had mansions with zero bids.
Mansions. Zero bids.
The 2/3 split may have worked for larger servers, but for anything less than huge, it'll leave lots of empty FC houses that people have likely shoved FCs together to fill before private buyers come in. By the time they "adjust" the Ward distribution like they've said they will, especially with the whole month we've had to wait before the second lottery, there will be no more private houses.
It doesn't matter if housing used to only be for FCs. They introduced private housing as part of the ward system. They have to accept the consequences. If they want to make it FC-only now, I'm going to ask for a replacement for private buyers, which from what I've heard is something they have no interest in. "But apartments!" Apartments are not equivalent to full housing. You can't garden. You can't share food with your friends. You don't get more than a single room, and you don't get any outdoor space.
I'm a new player. I like this game's housing options, and I like the premise of the housing system. I want to be able to participate, but even with the lottery (which is a step above the previous "waste your entire day and probably hurt your wrist just to be told a barebones FC snagged it", but still pretty awful,) I know I very likely won't get a house of my own. Not unless I create several alts and make an FC and hope that after a month there's still some available. I'm against the idea on principle, as it feels against the spirit of the system itself, but it seems this is how the game is played.