We need private instance housing

[Ortamus]

They sell the housing as a great feature of the game. None are available.

They sell the Company Airships as a new feature of HW. You can't because there's no more to buy.

Pretty poor from SE. All users pay the same amount of money to play the game, they should be entitled to the same content.

[crc0427]

What they should have done was made main wards FC only and sub wards all small plots that could be private or FC, and cost significantly less.

[Haname91]

I just started playing, and one of the main selling points was the promise of personal housing. Yet there is none. A private FC room is not the same as having your own personal house. I've frequently come across SE saying they can't do something because of server limitations. We can't have more retainer and inventory space because of limitations, we can't have more housing districts because of limitations, we can't do this because of limitations. Limitations, limitations, limitations. There is no excuse for such a large and successful game to have such poor servers that they cannot implement and build on content already in the game. If they really are so poor, and their engine optimization so poor, they need to admit so and work on it. Say that it'll be a bit before the next ID or 8-man trial, because they're putting priority on upgrading their servers. There is no reason at all that SE cannot. Releasing 1-2 districts a year, is nowhere near acceptable.

[Naunet]

Agree 100%, Haname91. Their excuses are either complete BS or, if they are legitimate, are evidence that SE is cheap as heck. For the love of god, just copy Rift or WildStar's housing systems, SE.

[niwaar]

No, just no.

Part of the fun and interest in housing is the fact that it is in the world. That I have neighbors that I can see and interact with. More than a few of my FC's Coil/Alex statics have found members from the FCs around our house just by being interactive.

Its true that SE should have made a better system for "Rooms" than they did. An "apartment" complex would have been an option that was better than the FC room system. Something akin to Aion's room system would have been interesting and wouldn't require you to be a part of an FC if you didnt want to be. But just no to full houses being private instances. Its not fun or conducive to an active MMO world.

[Intaki]

Its not fun or conducive to an active MMO world.

Neither is a housing system 90% of the playerbase can never use.

[Naunet]

Part of the fun and interest in housing is the fact that it is in the world. That I have neighbors that I can see and interact with. More than a few of my FC's Coil/Alex statics have found members from the FCs around our house just by being interactive.

It's possible to have your cake and eat it too. WildStar is implementing a "community" system where you can choose up to 5 plots to plug into a megaplot so that they're all physically connected to each other, creating a neighborhood.

Also, Intaki's got the right of it.

[Elamys]

I never see anyone in my neighborhood.

[Firepower]

I would like to see a smaller perhaps townhouse style of housing where there is a large shared garden space in the centre of a square which each townhouse shares a small square in. You could then add much more housing with less data simply because you could reduce the maximum amounts of item allocation e.g. 10 for external 50 for internal. Make townhouses similar in size to that of the original small house or a FC room, it then allows people some external individuality alongside internal furnishings Just doing that alone surely you could create a ward with double the amount of small houses as they use up half the amount of item data. It could also cost half that of a small making it affordable for entry level.

Allow that to be personal housing and give all the old plots back to FC's only and refunding any owners of other houses what they paid for it. This would also create much more vibrant neighbourhoods for the FC's, larger spaced out houses occupied by 10-50+ people instead of individuals and closely packed townhouses occupied by individuals that would create more of a community.

[Naunet]

You could then add much more housing with less data simply because you could reduce the maximum amounts of item allocation e.g. 10 for external 50 for internal.

That's hardly anything. >_> Their item limits are already ridiculously low. I don't think shoving people into tiny spaces with even tinier item allotments is much of an improvement, especially when competitors out there have housing systems with 2,000 item limits and huge individual plots.