The Case for Instanced Housing

[TeraRamis]

Mechanically in programming this would would be fine to have housing behave identically to apartments, but I personally hate apartments (also in real life). I want a yard with a fence and some surrounding greenery to look at, at minimum.

Ditto. But I'm not interested in neighbors. To be honest, the current wards are a massive eyesore - mismatched houses, tiny yards, terrible, gaudy exterior decorations, etc. And, overall, they don't even manage to feel alive - 99 percent of the time they're just empty (and even a little creepy).

Basically, I've never set foot in a neighborhood in this game that I had any desire to live in.

[kaynide]

Ditto. But I'm not interested in neighbors. To be honest, the current wards are a massive eyesore - mismatched houses, tiny yards, terrible, gaudy exterior decorations, etc. And, overall, they don't even manage to feel alive - 99 percent of the time they're just empty (and even a little creepy).

Basically, I've never set foot in a neighborhood in this game that I had any desire to live in.

Yup. My neighbor felt it was a good idea to put a giant Maoi statue glaring right at my entrance