Okay, so hear me out... You know how when we open a chest on a Dungeon we get a timer to choose if we want an item or not? Why can't buying a house use this same structure?
You see a plot that you like, you go up to the placard and select "I want this place". And instead of telling me "No" and just leaving it at that, you put me up on a list of people that want the same plot. When the timer ends, everyone that put their name on the list just gets in a roll-off and you get the result via in-game mail or something...
What if the lists gets gigantic, like nearly half the server on each individual open plot that pops up? The chances of actually getting a house would be about as bad as they are now anyways. Except you would still be able to play the game while you wait for the timer to pop, which I believe to be fairly important.
What if people want to sign up for multiple plots? Let them, the loot system already carries a solution to that problem, just play it like the house is an unique item. You can "Need" 2 unique items, you cannot acquire the second item as soon as you get the first. Have houses be the same.
What about relocations? You have 2 options here. Either they enter a higher tier of rolling (Much like Greed and Need) or they instantly bypass the timer. It might be troublesome to then transfer the rolling people to the old plot, but it isn't impossible, is it?
What if people don't have the money to BUY the plot when they get it? Once again, 2 options, you can either charge them up ahead of time to roll on the plot and mail them the money back if they fail the roll (Bonus: This would limit people registering for multiple plots). Or have the person drop the cash on their retainer, if the retainer is caught without the cash, drop them from the list like they've just passed and reroll. I like the first option better.
Ideally you'd be freed to do whatever while you wait for the timer, even log off and do your taxes or whatever. But even if you somehow make it so we have to stay there online in front of the place literally camping or channeling the sign, at least we can go AFK while the game runs the rolling on the background and I don't have to waste an entire day and night clicking my wrists off only to lose the plot to someone "Luckier". Not to mention this would mean that you couldn't bot the process at all.
I've also looked some pages back to see if anyone dropped something like this. So far nothing...
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You see a plot that you like, you go up to the placard and select "I want this place". And instead of telling me "No" and just leaving it at that, you put me up on a list of people that want the same plot. When the timer ends, everyone that put their name on the list just gets in a roll-off and you get the result via in-game mail or something...
What if the lists gets gigantic, like nearly half the server on each individual open plot that pops up? The chances of actually getting a house would be about as bad as they are now anyways. Except you would still be able to play the game while you wait for the timer to pop, which I believe to be fairly important.
What if people want to sign up for multiple plots? Let them, the loot system already carries a solution to that problem, just play it like the house is an unique item. You can "Need" 2 unique items, you cannot acquire the second item as soon as you get the first. Have houses be the same.
What about relocations? You have 2 options here. Either they enter a higher tier of rolling (Much like Greed and Need) or they instantly bypass the timer. It might be troublesome to then transfer the rolling people to the old plot, but it isn't impossible, is it?
What if people don't have the money to BUY the plot when they get it? Once again, 2 options, you can either charge them up ahead of time to roll on the plot and mail them the money back if they fail the roll (Bonus: This would limit people registering for multiple plots). Or have the person drop the cash on their retainer, if the retainer is caught without the cash, drop them from the list like they've just passed and reroll. I like the first option better.
Ideally you'd be freed to do whatever while you wait for the timer, even log off and do your taxes or whatever. But even if you somehow make it so we have to stay there online in front of the place literally camping or channeling the sign, at least we can go AFK while the game runs the rolling on the background and I don't have to waste an entire day and night clicking my wrists off only to lose the plot to someone "Luckier". Not to mention this would mean that you couldn't bot the process at all.
I've also looked some pages back to see if anyone dropped something like this. So far nothing...
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