Housing Roulette was an absolute trash idea.

[Avoidy]

The old housing system was a steaming plate of diarrhea.
The new housing system is a smaller, solid turd in a bowl.

People are seriously out here defending the new system, which 90% of the time has 100 people bidding on a single plot, like "well at least we're not eating diarrhea anymore! *chews turds* I mean it could always be worse haha! The turd is smaller now!" Yeah, the new system is objectively better than the old system. But the old system was so bad, so atrocious, so unforgivably shitty, that that isn't saying much. I'm sick of hearing "at least this one's better than what we had before" when what we had before was such a low bar. Under the old system, people were peeing in bottles and pooping in socks so they could stay at their PC for 9 hours straight clicking a placard. Most people were botting. Most of the winners would get their plot and then continue clicking the placard for hours after winning. The old system rewarded cheaters. The new system rewards luck. They're both shit. We need either instanced housing or more wards, don't care which. And before someone on some low population world or something chimes in with "oN mY wOrLd thErE aRe pLenTy oF pLoTs", I'm talking about places that actually need the help, obviously.

They need to shorten the bidding cycles. If you can't manage to login without needing a 9 day window, you probably don't really need a house anyway. You'd just be taking it from players who use it more actively.

This too, if we're stuck with this awful bidding system, then at least shorten the cycles. There's no reason a "Results period" should take this long. Same with the bidding period. Holy hell. And if you win but can't manage to show up for 2 days to click a placard and get your bid, then it should go to the next bidder instead. If #2 wins a plot and the only other bidder is #1, but #2 seriously can't bother to show up, then #1 should get it. Why the hell does it go back out for a second lottery. Such a stupid goddamned system.