Here's an idea I thought of to try to make getting a housing plot less strenuous (because players shouldn't have to endure repetitive stress injuries related to hours of constant clicking on placards) and hopefully more equitable.
1. A plot becomes available.
2. A player with the available funds goes to the placard and clicks on it to purchase the plot. They must have the funds in their inventory to buy it and the money goes into escrow while they are entered into the lottery for that plot.
3. The player must remain in that housing ward for the duration of the plot timer. Leaving the housing ward removes players from the lottery (and returns their funds to them from escrow).
4. A lottery winner is randomly chosen.
5. The lottery winner gets a PROMINENT message on their screen that they have won the plot and they have a limited time (i.e. 60 seconds) to accept.
6. If the lottery winner does NOT accept, they are removed and a new lottery winner is chosen. This process continues until a winner accepts the plot.
7. All persons who did not win the plot are returned their money out of escrow.
Relocation is still entirely possible for all plots.
Perhaps there is also the possibility of giving the losers of the lottery a small, hidden buff which applies toward the next time they enter a plot lottery and it is cumulative. So with each loss, their chance of winning increases until they finally win and then the buff resets back to zero, putting them back on equal footing with everyone else once more.
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1. A plot becomes available.
2. A player with the available funds goes to the placard and clicks on it to purchase the plot. They must have the funds in their inventory to buy it and the money goes into escrow while they are entered into the lottery for that plot.
3. The player must remain in that housing ward for the duration of the plot timer. Leaving the housing ward removes players from the lottery (and returns their funds to them from escrow).
4. A lottery winner is randomly chosen.
5. The lottery winner gets a PROMINENT message on their screen that they have won the plot and they have a limited time (i.e. 60 seconds) to accept.
6. If the lottery winner does NOT accept, they are removed and a new lottery winner is chosen. This process continues until a winner accepts the plot.
7. All persons who did not win the plot are returned their money out of escrow.
Relocation is still entirely possible for all plots.
Perhaps there is also the possibility of giving the losers of the lottery a small, hidden buff which applies toward the next time they enter a plot lottery and it is cumulative. So with each loss, their chance of winning increases until they finally win and then the buff resets back to zero, putting them back on equal footing with everyone else once more.
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