Housing lottery system takes entirely too long and is poorly designed.

[NightHour]

I think the lottery system works as they had intended it to be, but I also think it is time for an update. I did just get a house after months of trying, and only reason how I got the best chance is to walk to every single plot and bid on one I liked with a low amount of other players bidding. I have heard horror stories of how the housing system used to be, so for now, I am ok with giving players a "fair chance" or as much of one as this system can grant you.

Really, I would love there to be a way that we could add wards into different areas or give players more options. It's a dirty idea, but it would be cool if, for the low low price of gil cap (idk, just throwing ideas), you can purchase and build a ward to be the ward's "owner". I don't know how you would manage the settings or what you could "manage" while being an owner, part of the reason why this is a dirty idea, but I could see it working close to a lot of Guild Registries in other games. You make a registry, have enough players sign in, and then you can turn it in for review or approval....build the ward....sell houses...and then you could even make it to where "if there are no houses purchased/occupied for a x day cycle, the ward is removed" to help with congestion.

Then the chinese gil sellers start selling housing because they buy wards with their botted gil?

I doubt they'd want that.

Probably a better way to implement your idea would be to demo after the account has gone 14 days without paid game time..

Right, so if my game time runs out early in the month and I don't get paid until the end of the month I should lose the house I bid every week for almost a year to get?

Sorry but that's a terrible take.

45 days is fine, there's room for it to possibly come down to 30 or even 40.

[Jojoya]

Right, so if my game time runs out early in the month and I don't get paid until the end of the month I should lose the house I bid every week for almost a year to get?

Sorry but that's a terrible take.

45 days is fine, there's room for it to possibly come down to 30 or even 40.

You should have kept reading to the next line where I said I still don't agree with the idea.