Quote Originally Posted by WhatShiShi View Post
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.
In a world with limited space, the only way to make things fair is a lottery.

First-come-first-served has a massive problem with botters and no-lifers.

Price-based bidding and outbidding run the problem where only the gold-capped players can ever get a house.

You come into the forum making a post about how this feels unfair for you to lose 3 lotteries over the course of a month? You're being treated with the same fairness as everyone else, this is equitable treatment.

You can just go get an apartment, there are no lotteries for those, the game doesn't owe you a house.