Automatic Housing Instance Management

[Valmarus]

(Forgive the double post. Character limits)

They've already stated that this sort of system is not possible for wards since wards are essentially permanent fixtures while instanced housing like apartments is load on demand.

Players would be very upset if their houses were being shifted from ward to ward on a random basis. Sometimes they've chosen the placement of their house to be in the same ward with their FC or friends' houses, sometimes they've chosen it specifically to avoid other players they consider a nuisance. Your system would separate them from their friends and FC, and potentially dump them next to someone they dislike. Trying to shut down wards would also never work because certain plots, especially large, are in constant demand so there would be no where to move those houses to even if the rest of the ward was basically empty.

Your system would still be a huge strain on server resources compared to an instanced housing system. Better for SE to create a more comprehensive instanced housing system than the basic apartments we currently have so no player/FC needs to go without and there's no complicated management of wards needed.

From what you're saying it sounds more like what they are saying is they can't switch the instancesd on and off every time a player enters or all players exit. That's not the same thing as what I'm suggesting at all.

As for people being moved away from FC members plots, your argument there falls apart for two reasons. 1 - if that's true the instances wouldn't be closed down. 2 - There's a huge amount of the player base who want housing but have no access so those players who want to be near their fc mates can't have any housing at all anyway.

As for apartments it is my impression that they lack certain features that houses can have, like gardens, which doesn't make them a substitute. Perhaps then the solution is to place an npc near an alley in the housing zones that can take you to instanced "walled estates" which are just instanced plots available in any of the sizes that normal plots can have. Sure you wouldn't get the nice view of a plot but at least you'd be able to play with all the features of the housing system.

[geekgirl101]

As for apartments it is my impression that they lack certain features that houses can have, like gardens, which doesn't make them a substitute. Perhaps then the solution is to place an npc near an alley in the housing zones that can take you to instanced "walled estates" which are just instanced plots available in any of the sizes that normal plots can have. Sure you wouldn't get the nice view of a plot but at least you'd be able to play with all the features of the housing system.

Kinda same as what I suggested a while ago but got told they can't do it because plants are somehow affected by the weather or something like that.

[Valmarus]

Kinda same as what I suggested a while ago but got told they can't do it because plants are somehow affected by the weather or something like that.

I really don't understand that because again from a coding perspective it wouldn't be difficult to log the changes in weather then pull the times of weather changes and calculate the change of growth on next time the instance is started.