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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[Ayan_Calvesse]

Placard clicking was better, in all honesty.

Hot take but I agree - it would have been nice for more transparency of when the "click window" began. So I would have basically put up a series of windows for every plot to give folks of time zones a chance. So like plot 41 would rotate through the click windows and you would know when you gotta get there to click for your chance. Sorta like the lotto system we use now.

So I would say "Plot 41 goes up at 10pm." and from 10 to 11pm everyone can click. After which it resolves like a regular lotto. That way lag doesn't factor as much but reduces the fair weather competitors that bid and accelerates housing turnover.

[Reinha]

Hot take but I agree - it would have been nice for more transparency of when the "click window" began. So I would have basically put up a series of windows for every plot to give folks of time zones a chance. So like plot 41 would rotate through the click windows and you would know when you gotta get there to click for your chance. Sorta like the lotto system we use now.

So I would say "Plot 41 goes up at 10pm." and from 10 to 11pm everyone can click. After which it resolves like a regular lotto. That way lag doesn't factor as much but reduces the fair weather competitors that bid and accelerates housing turnover.

Simply adding a visible 24 hour cooldown on freed plots would have solved every issue regarding the distribution of available housing. Couldn't trade plots for Gil or RMT because other people might show up to take it before the client can. No need to get carpal tunnel from clicking or to camp the plot because you'd know exactly when to show up. Couldn't use your alts to increase odds since only one character per account can be logged in. Plots would go to active players and not a bunch of inactive ones who stay logged off for a week and still take part in the lottery.