2.) Keep Lottery

The lottery system sucks but the previous solutions to acquire ward housing suck even more.

Would take lottery over placard clicking bots and 24/7 ward scanning bots who near instantly relocate into mediums/larges.

Ultimately, the limited ward housing system is not a long-term scalable solution. It's not capable of adequately dealing with increasing server populations.

Possible solutions that players have suggested over the years which can be implemented together:

1. Keep the existing ward housing but work towards a new fully instanced housing solution.

2. Let us upgrade apartments for gil to penthouses or make Island Sanctuary a viable alternative to ward housing.

That way players who just want a house can go the fully instanced route and those who want to fight it out for 'exclusive/flex' ward houses, can do so.