Current situation is absolutely horrible.
You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. Weeks go by. Months go by. Years go by. You still can not get the house.
Everything is let to pure random. You play for years, you pay sub for years, and yet 4-member FC with level 30 character gets your dream plot just to sell it on RMT website later.
Please rework housing lottery. First and foremost, it should not be a lottery at all. Here are few possible suggestions for rework:
1) Queue system.
2) Auction system
3) Pseudo-RNG system
4) SE's Own Solution
Of course, we all know that instanced housing is the ultimate solution that we need. But while we do not have that, please consider reworking current system.
Thank you.
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You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. You bid. You lose. Weeks go by. Months go by. Years go by. You still can not get the house.
Everything is let to pure random. You play for years, you pay sub for years, and yet 4-member FC with level 30 character gets your dream plot just to sell it on RMT website later.
Please rework housing lottery. First and foremost, it should not be a lottery at all. Here are few possible suggestions for rework:
1) Queue system.
- Instead of lottery, player can choose to pay deposit upfront and pick which houses in which wards they would like to get. As soon as any house gets freed up, player acquires house automatically.
- To prevent abuse, once you have got one house via queue you can not do it again for 365 days unless plot you got gets demolished (you can still join the secondary queue if you want to get extra house that is not wanted by anyone who did not yet got any).
- In order to remain in queue, you have to log in periodically and of course you can withdraw from queue at any point of time.
- This system favors players who played the game the most, and they can get nicer plots, while newer players will have to work it up from smaller plots. In my opinion, this system is much more fair than just the random.
2) Auction system
- System that is more controversial but still is something that is better than rigged random.
- The concept is pretty simple: houses are put on auction. Auction entries are non refundable to prevent abuse.
- Again, limit it to one auction participation per year unless plot player got via auction is demolished. Plots that were sitting for over 30 days unwanted can allow players who got a house via auction participate in a secondary auction over these plots.
- Of course, this approach will require that SE fights botting and RMT actively to ensure that houses go to players who actually put the most actual effort into the game.
3) Pseudo-RNG system
- Something that can be made quick and dirty. You lost lottery - you have higher chances to win next house.
- For every lost lottery entry, you get an additional entry next time you participate. Pity system that will hopefully reduce situations where you bid for years and still can not get a house.
- Not ideal at all, probably can be abused in some way - needs investigation, but undoubtedly still better than what we have.
4) SE's Own Solution
- I'm pretty sure CBU3 can think of something better than what we have now on their own. Please do that.
Of course, we all know that instanced housing is the ultimate solution that we need. But while we do not have that, please consider reworking current system.
Thank you.
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