Keep the wards as they are but add instanced so everyone can own a house of their choosing. Housing shouldn’t be a competition or an “if you can luck into it” thing. There’s lots of people here that have put forward so many good ideas of how it could be done, and with 30 wards already, SE needs to look at options to solve the scarcity issue without putting more stress on the servers. And I understand that this is mainly an NA region issue. But the fact that NA’s problem is overcrowding also suggests that this is a huge chunk of your customer base, and maybe worth some attention. lol

Auto-demo has helped a little bit, but those houses will be gone in probably 2-3 lotto cycles. And really it’s another “feel bad” part of the system right now that the only hope some people have for a house is that someone else gets theirs demolished. It feels bad to lose every lotto, because it’s all RNG. It feels bad to walk back to that placard to collect your money. The system as it is now just feels bad all around, and it’s sad that a game that has done so many other things so well has kinda dropped the ball in this area.

Also, adding new worlds is great for those just getting into the game, and those that don’t have any strong ties to keep them from transferring. But you can’t just say housing is meant to foster community, and then say leaving the community they’ve built up over years is the only solution to the housing shortage.

There’s a way for everyone to have what they want, it just needs to be worked on. And that’s what I want to see… because again, the current system just feels bad and creates animosity between players.