Lottery Bad Luck Protection

[Seraphor]

Indeed, I do want a system that gives better odds to persistent players. You see all the salty posts around and admittedly I am salty after losing several mediums to people that have left them to rot since the lottery system first started and they clearly had no interest in housing in the first place, yet got lucky and won. And just checked the last 2 mediums I lost on...both houses have no gardens, one of them has no aetheryte and both of them have no summoning bells inside, nor decorations. Quite frankly, it's depressing for myself and others who are genuinely interested and love housing that you can bang your head against a brick wall every 9 days because your 20th attempt on a house amounted to nothing whilst some first timer comes along and wins...

Persistent players do already have better odds through the nature of being persistent.
If you bid for a plot in two separate rounds of lottery, you already have twice the chances of someone who bid in one round of the lottery.
Every 9 days you can roll the dice again, gaining one additional chance to win a plot. Each bid in each subsequent round is another ticket.

You might only have a small chance of winning, lets say there's 10 bids on average so it's 10%. Well you play 10 rounds and statistically you'll win one of them.

And yes, it may be depressing, but what people do with their plot is 100% their business. If they keep their house locked up and their garden is empty except for an aetheryte, that's their choice. You can't tell people what to do with their houses, any more than someone could come along and tell you how to decorate yours.
It would be wonderful if everyone would decorate their gardens and open up their houses for visitors, but you can't make them.