Quote Originally Posted by justausername View Post
There are a lot of us. Only 2 of our FCs 13 members have personal housing, and pretty much all but 3 want to get personals. I have been bidding in every round and never won a damn thing whether it was against 200 people or 1. There are usually upwards of 700 bids on my world per round right now, and that's with many I know giving up who don't have a house and waiting for the new wards. I'm the only one of the 8 that has been bidding. I also know several other people on other worlds still trying for first house.
If you only seeing around 700-800 bids per lottery cycle, you have nothing to worry about. There will be 1500 out of 1800 available for you to bid on in the new wards, plus whatever becomes available through demolition once that's resumed for a few weeks.

Quote Originally Posted by Knot_D View Post
My god now you have to compete with people with legit FC and FC shells combined! RIP Medium and Large plots...
Shell FCs shouldn't be much of a problem because they don't have the large number of members able to bid. The legit FCs that would be more of a threat but there also shouldn't be that many of them on most worlds considering wards haven't been sold out for all that long except on some of the Crystal worlds.

As for mediums and larges? The number of players who will want to relocate should negate any meaningful advantage the larger FCs have in the split wards. Even if a FC has 20 out of 200 entries on a plot, that's still 180 chances to lose compared to only 20 chances to win.