The housing system is trash!

[Boldprint]

1. If they win the lottery, and don't claim the house, they lose half the Gil. No one is doing this just as a prank.
2. If someone relocates, they haven't taken any extra houses, their old house is now available.
3. If you forced players to relinquish their old house first, before gambling on a new one, then people simply wouldn't do it. This would mean you're permanently locked into the first plot you win. This is just going to make people even more picky about the plots they bid on, so you'll get hundreds of bids on the popular plots, and 0 bids on the unpopular plots, and people will still be complaining about a lack of plots despite half the plots sitting empty because no one wants to commit to an ugly plot forever. People wouldn't be able to upsize from a Small to a Medium to a Large. Nobody would like this system.

1. yes people will bid on small plots as a prank with no intention of buying it.
2. opening the old plot to have to go with a lottery yet again, is not a selling point.
3. your wrong, many people who want a house will buy ugly slots, that's literally what i tried to get a house. this system has been so unfair for so long that i don't care if you want a upgrade. you say people wont like it, well people don't like the current system now.

[Fandele]

Yeah, this happened to a fellow FC member last week. She was the only bidder, someone else bid last minute and won, then declined to purchase.

I don't know how many do it as a joke. I'm sure some do. With a little practice, you can pull enough for a small house in 2-3 days just playing the marketboard. But I think a large portion are probably people who changed their mind for whatever reason.

A good friend of mine was sweating all week, because she accidentally bid on a medium in an FC only ward. She was just praying she didn't win. (First time I was congratulating someone for losing their bid).