FC Great Hall and Personal Housing: Separate and Unrelated Housing: In Depth View

[Shibi]

I picked this version of the FC Great Hall very intentionally. The Personal House is for your creative ideas and expressing your design. The FC Hall is for Team Play.

It removes the ability for the FC to hold events and makes it very bland. Basically only suitable for boring raiding FCs without any creativity, decorators, or style. Do a raid, get a trophy, fill a preset empty slot.

How can you decorate the hall for say - halloween or christmas - if it's all locked?

No thanks. And seriously considering the major part of your plan is instanced, who the heck then cares if shell FCs have a hall? In fact, instancing removes the need for them to exist, as housing is endless.

[SerenityLuministia]

It removes the ability for the FC to hold events and makes it very bland. Basically only suitable for boring raiding FCs without any creativity, decorators, or style. Do a raid, get a trophy, fill a preset empty slot.

How can you decorate the hall for say - halloween or christmas - if it's all locked?

No thanks. And seriously considering the major part of your plan is instanced, who the heck then cares if shell FCs have a hall? In fact, instancing removes the need for them to exist, as housing is endless.

Thank you for bringing up some points I didn’t think of. I will attempt to answer them in how I envision this system working:

You mention FC events:
-The Scheduling Board would be used to schedule events, I envision just a calendar where you can type a small note under each date.
-If you mean Role Playing Type events, remember you can invite people to your personal house, and with the personal workbench work and make it into mansions, gardens, winter wonderland, use the basement as to create caverns. If your entire FC loves RP, everyone in your FC could have a different themed personal house expanding your RP experience further since you can invite the entire FC into the personal house. Plus, with the FC Schedule feature you could schedule what time and at who’s personal house the RP event would take place.

You mention lack of creativity and decorations in the FC Hall:
-You can still have creative freedoms in the hall, such as choosing the hall’s basic city theme. You can pick your FC’s color theme, and FC’s Logo. As you unlock rooms you can pick basic layout and types of items in that room such as the type of bath in the bathhouse out of a selection of several for example. As I also mentioned in my post botanists can take care of the garden and unlock different plant types you can add to it.

You mentioned Holidays:
-Decorations for holidays are great, I see these being similar to how the wards get decorated. For each holiday event the hall would be auto decorated with themed items. (Remember in your personal house you can decorate exactly where you want the holiday themed items, plus have them year-round if you want. Plus, with the limited furniture copy machine you can copy the holiday item as many times as you need without worrying about it taking your inv space when not using it.)

You mention Shell FCs:
-Even instanced, housing isn’t endless it still requires resources. I’m not saying shell FCs won’t exist, I’m sure they still will with some people wanting to solo obtain trophies. However, I do believe limiting decorating in FC and focusing more on team work will have less shell FCs overall and take up less resources.

Again, I am looking to have a clear difference of game play for both the FC Great Hall and Personal Housing.