Lottery, new players, and sub time. Square?

[WhatShiShi]

I am a relatively new player, and I’m struggling with this brilliant RNG-based housing assignment system. This is now the third time I’ve tried to get a house, and thanks to this system, I’ve spent an entire month waiting and failing.

How did you think it was a good idea to force people into a nearly week-long cooldown after losing the lottery? How did you think it was a good idea to FORCE people to wait before they can try to buy a house again, when every day in the game comes at a real monetary cost, given that it’s a subscription-based game? How is it a good idea to rely on an RNG system where someone trying for months can be overtaken by someone who simply has more luck? How does this system make even the slightest bit of sense?

What sense does it make to lock EMPTY PLOTS WITH NO BIDDERS for DAYS, preventing people from settling for those instead of throwing them into this pointless and honestly infuriating cooldown?

Not to mention the players who own multiple houses despite the system prohibiting it, making the game even less welcoming to new players. All of this is absolutely absurd.

[MakoEyes]

Get used to it. In the sense that everyone will come here and tell you how it's your own problem/fault. And the majority of those people are the ones causing this massive disparity.

Enjoy the months and months of failed lotteries, there's no way around it.

Best of luck.

[JimCasey_RF6]

I am a relatively new player, and I’m struggling with this brilliant RNG-based housing assignment system. This is now the third time I’ve tried to get a house, and thanks to this system, I’ve spent an entire month waiting and failing.

How did you think it was a good idea to force people into a nearly week-long cooldown after losing the lottery? How did you think it was a good idea to FORCE people to wait before they can try to buy a house again, when every day in the game comes at a real monetary cost, given that it’s a subscription-based game? How is it a good idea to rely on an RNG system where someone trying for months can be overtaken by someone who simply has more luck? How does this system make even the slightest bit of sense?

What sense does it make to lock EMPTY PLOTS WITH NO BIDDERS for DAYS, preventing people from settling for those instead of throwing them into this pointless and honestly infuriating cooldown?

Not to mention the players who own multiple houses despite the system prohibiting it, making the game even less welcoming to new players. All of this is absolutely absurd.

Does it help you feel any better knowing that the lottery system was implemented at the request of the overall playerbase? The FCFS system and placard clicking wars we had before the lottery were an absolute nightmare compared to this.

[Rinoa_353]

They could shorten then entry and results period to three days entry and two days results seems reasonable to me. The old system we had was far worse since people that used bots usually won the placard clicking wars that had people clicking nonstop for several hours hoping to win. While it's frustrating but the lotto is a better and fairer system since I spent 7 years trying and losing trying to get my plot in Exodus but you will eventually win one like I did.

[Tyintheron]

Get used to it. In the sense that everyone will come here and tell you how it's your own problem/fault. And the majority of those people are the ones causing this massive disparity.

Enjoy the months and months of failed lotteries, there's no way around it.

Best of luck.

It's your own problem/fault. I'm telling you this as someone who owns approximately twenty-two thousand, nine hundred and eight small houses, all located on Plot 41 in the Lavender Beds on Balmung, where I stack my collection of exactly thirty Heaven-On-High outdoor furnishings into the shape of a much larger Heaven-On-High outdoor furnishing.

The fact that you're taking people saying "Yeah, the housing system is frustrating, I agree with you. In the end, what I had to do to get a house was this" as anything but them trying to genuinely help you out is very much "your own problem/fault."

Or, y'know - it could just be a big conspiracy where the other millions of people who play the game secretly meet up and put bids on the houses you decide to bid on to spite you.

Good lord.

[Divinemights]

Get used to it. In the sense that everyone will come here and tell you how it's your own problem/fault. And the majority of those people are the ones causing this massive disparity.
Enjoy the months and months of failed lotteries, there's no way around it.
Best of luck.

At least you should be greatful that you get a chance very week.
If old style of placard clicking, it cost your health.
Doing more good deed, you will get it someday.

[Canadane]

Placard clicking was better, in all honesty.

[Divinemights]

Placard clicking was better, in all honesty.

During a new ward release, yes.
Yet, this is the same forum ask for "Housing Lottery" with overwhelming support, remember?
If Op and 2nd poster spend 10 mins search history....

[Reinha]

Placard clicking was better, in all honesty.

Pre-placard clicking was even better. When you could just walk to an empty plot and buy it immediately. No health risking required, just being there first was enough.

[Rinoa_353]

The pre-click placard wars era was bad since it allowed the black market to extort plots and not everyone had time to rush to click on a placard. Therefore, the lotto is the fairest for now. They should reduce the time for both the entry and results period to something like 4 to 5 days total. This would allow much more chances of winning a plot within a month instead of the current 3 times that just feels too long of a wait in between lotto cycles that frustrates many people.