Apartment rooftop/balcony common area idea!

[SublimeGem]

I love the new apartments and their structure! It's great that there's a Choco Stable, Market Board, and Retainer Bell close by! I just have one suggestion to make that would make them ideal: Instead of just a common lobby area, what if each apartment building also had a common rooftop balcony type area? One with an actual view of the residential district like what some houses have, and with chairs and tables and such?
Does this seem like a good idea to anyone else?

[ZhaneX]

Seconded. I would love to have such a vantage point accessible to those who have an apartment.

[Maaka_Angra]

I think it'd be pretty neat, definitely a good hangout spot.
I'd like to add, I personally feel that the lobby area shouldn't be another "area" and rather the doors just open to it, I find that to be suitable for people to hang around more rather than just outside the doors and then have an option like we currently have with the door to the inside next to it instead. The rooftop should definitely be another area.. that'd be a lot of walking otherwise. lol

[OliviaJ]

I agree with Maaka. Not really sure what the purpose of the lobby is going to be most of the time. Sure there's a mender there but honestly what else will you go there for? The hangout is going to be the MB, just like everywhere else. A separate zone was disappointing.

[Rymm]

I agree with Maaka and Olivia about the lobby. It was a cool idea that was fumbled by instancing it. If they wanted it to be a hang-out spot and people to stay in there they either should have left it with open doors or put the MB, bell, and maybe even the aetheryte right inside.

[Titor]

Can we naturally get onto the balconies of mansions first

[SublimeGem]

That would be great! Wonderful idea Titor!

[Delphor]

If they could make it so Free Companies with Large houses could have a balcony that could store a table and chairs, I don't see why reworking the apartment system to be less instanced as it currently is would be a bad idea. As of right now, all I did was buy a mender and junkmonger permit and stuck them in the apartment, since then I could skip past the lobby straight to my room and have somewhat of the same functionality that it does now.

Now if only the development team could rework the placement of some items in my room so I could put items closer to the edges of the walls... :s