Remove Lottery [POLL]

[Mihari]

3 - Add enough housing wards for everyone!

Options 1 and 2 are no solutions for the real problem. SE must generally solve the broken housing system and give us enough housing wards or personal instanced housing.

[DeNada]

3 - Add enough housing wards for everyone!

Options 1 and 2 are no solutions for the real problem. SE must generally solve the broken housing system and give us enough housing wards or personal instanced housing.

Sadly, this is not gonna happen due to server constraints. Instead, I would like to suggest reallocating servers from worlds with low population to worlds with high population.

For example, right now Materia is completely empty and we are seeing several wards with a few or even zero occupied plots after the lottery. What if we allocate those housing servers to more deserving worlds such as Balmung or Mateus where housing is in much higher demand (especially when Balmung even ran out of apartments omg!).

So instead of each world having an even split of 24 wards, we could have Materia just have 6 wards each while Balmung could have 42 wards for example.

[GeminiReed]

So instead of each world having an even split of 24 wards, we could have Materia just have 6 wards each while Balmung could have 42 wards for example.

At one time Mateus' housing was seriously underpopulated. These days it's just as congested as Balmung.

While Square does differentiate configuration at the DC level they have shown no interest in running worlds any different from others even if it was just a configuration option. In other words, expect every world to be run as a carbon copy of another.

[Arazehl]

Sorry the old way of buying was so much worse, but yeah the supply and demand chain needs to be fixed.

[Brygd]

2, reluctantly.

The advantage of the previous system was that due to the agony of the system, you were competing against far fewer individuals for your house. The huge disadvantage was that it took a lot of time and it really hurt my wrist. The convenience of the lotto system is a big plus...but I'm honestly not expecting to ever win the house size I desire due to the demand versus supply. Jojoya hit the nail on the head. Until they fix the supply, personal housing in this game will remain one of the worst implemented features.

[hamgoose]

2. Keep the lottery.
If it worked as intended, it's much better than what they had before.

[Naizakane]

2. Lottery's my best chance of my dream plot being open long enough for me to see it (if one ever opens on one of the individual wards.)

[GomJabbar]

2 for sure

[Plumdilly]

2! No way I want waste my time spamming a plot!