Housing Lottery System

[Alfimi]

The housing lottery system is a perfect system and at the same time, far from being perfect.

The perfect part: It promotes a fair chance of bids across all participants.
The far from being perfect part: It gives a once off lottery until next availability.

The problem, with the housing plots being fully grabbed, the next lottery will not occur for an unknown long Hrothgar period of time before it becomes available again. This means that the system only run once.

Propose solution: Every week during maintenance, add in a new ward in order to keep the lottery system on the flow. All other existing rules should remain intact. If data overload is a concern, setup additional servers specifically for the housing plots.

Note: I’m referring to the plots for privates, not to be confused with the FCs section.

[Lihtleita]

Propose solution: Every week during maintenance, add in a new ward in order to keep the lottery system on the flow. All other existing rules should remain intact. If data overload is a concern, setup additional servers specifically for the housing plots.

im starting to think people play this game as just a housing sim and not actually an mmo

[Dustytome]

Note: I’m referring to the plots for privates, not to be confused with the FCs section.

They're the same thing. The restrictions will be swapped on occasion over time. The first 18 wards being FC is not a permanent restriction. The way the ward system is built, constantly adding more wards isn't feasible. They have to manually add hardware and update the software each time, in addition to every world being treated the same. If a busy world gets 18 more wards, so does a low population world that may not need additional housing. The ward system isn't and will never be flexible in the way the game needs it to be to keep up with demand.

[Greyhawk]

Why are you proposing a solution they said is difficult enough to maintain, let alone add another same turd, same smell scenario? Why are you promoting an already failed system with a bigger failure?

Stop promoting more wards, and start promoting smart, common-sense, 21st Century models of instancing.