Stop asking for more wards

[hiedra]

I know some people are against instanced housing because they love the neighborhood feel of our current housing system. But who says we can't have both?

Personally I think instanced housing would be great. This past year we've been seeing that SE had been leaning towards a more cross-server experience. First we had the cross server party finder, now we have a cross-server friend list. I think it's only a matter of time until we'll have cross-server Linkshells and maybe even cross-server MB. I think instanced housing would make something else possible: cross-server Free Companies.

[Waliel]

I know some people are against instanced housing because they love the neighborhood feel of our current housing system. But who says we can't have both?

Personally I think instanced housing would be great. This past year we've been seeing that SE had been leaning towards a more cross-server experience. First we had the cross server party finder, now we have a cross-server friend list. I think it's only a matter of time until we'll have cross-server Linkshells and maybe even cross-server MB. I think instanced housing would make something else possible: cross-server Free Companies.

I wonder how well instanced wards would work. You could buy any plot in any area freely, and the game would do some semi-random magic to populate the instance with other player houses. Your neighbours would randomly change, but I guess that would be fine. I have no idea how feasible it would be to create something like this.

[hiedra]

I wonder how well instanced wards would work. You could buy any plot in any area freely, and the game would do some semi-random magic to populate the instance with other player houses. Your neighbours would randomly change, but I guess that would be fine. I have no idea how feasible it would be to create something like this.

I don't know anything about game developing so idk if something like that is possible, but I think that it would be really fun to have something like that! (edit: my friend informed me that Wildstar has instanced houses with neighbors)
Would also be nice if you could set up your own neighborhoods made out of friend houses and whatnot.

[AstralKaos]

I know some people are against instanced housing because they love the neighborhood feel of our current housing system. But who says we can't have both?

That's the idea. But those that are violently opposed to instance are sticking their fingers in their ears and screaming loudly, because they think people are asking for wards to be completely removed and replaced - which is absolutely not what anybody is asking for.

Repeat: Nobody is asking for wards to be removed, along with that sense of having a neighbourhood... even if that only happens in two or three wards per datacenter (yes, datacenter) and is probably confined to one corner of that ward -- if that. We're not trying to take existing wards away.