Housing: Raise the Item Limit

[Deveryn]

Sorry, but it's not happening. Things will break, especially if the outside housing limit changes.

I played Everquest 2 before this. They've had housing from the start and it always had a decent capacity. It only went up when they flagged certain items as building blocks, because they essentially use the same textures. There isn't much like that, so ya'll are out of luck.

[Knot_D]

Outside can be.. 200? I love mazes but there's not enough space there to do a get hyuck'd maze of mind twists.

200 of Namazu Effigy? Are you crazy?

[EZGIL]

I got my medium about 5 weeks ago. Somehow I made all 3 levels looked filled in and look good with 300 items. Now at the "pull something out to put something in stage". I can live with it. However, I really have no desire to move up to large, if I even get the opportunity, simply because of the 400 item limit. I feel for large designers. Thats a LOT of space for so few items.

[DamianFatale]

Sorry, but it's not happening. Things will break, especially if the outside housing limit changes.

I played Everquest 2 before this. They've had housing from the start and it always had a decent capacity. It only went up when they flagged certain items as building blocks, because they essentially use the same textures. There isn't much like that, so ya'll are out of luck.

The game is getting a graphical update in 7.X. New servers, and technical upgrades are also happening at a slow but steady pace. I'm pretty sure that more items is naturally a thing they will do, especially because people who already have designed houses are less likely to use new housing items if they can't make room for whatever design they have set up.

[DamianFatale]

Outside is probably not seeing an increase due to the number of items people have to load whenever they enter a housing area. I think they said it was approaching the upper limit of what the engine can handle (who knows it that's true or not). There really isn't that kind of limit indoors so I would think an increase there would be more likely.

IMO apartments really could use the increase, they are about 3/5 the size of a small plot, but only get half the item limit. Proportionally they should have at least a limit of 120.

As time goes on this will get easier. They have increased server upgrades to make servers stronger already, so I think it could be possible.

[Knot_D]

I got my medium about 5 weeks ago. Somehow I made all 3 levels looked filled in and look good with 300 items. Now at the "pull something out to put something in stage". I can live with it. However, I really have no desire to move up to large, if I even get the opportunity, simply because of the 400 item limit. I feel for large designers. Thats a LOT of space for so few items.

I don't even care with Large plot now because mostly their plot is on worst area, somehow pretty far from MB, too few outdoor item limit, and too few indoor item limit. Mostly satisfied with it as FC house than private house.

The Medium plot on the other hard is probably the BiS for private house. Like the one I have, near Goblet pools, Roegadyn flexing view, MB is not that far, 30 outdoor item limit, and 300 indoor item limit. The only wish I want is make the pillar and ceiling changed into other residential area's style, because Goblet ceiling is not loft friendly

[Shibi]

200 of Namazu Effigy? Are you crazy?

Like the one I have, near Goblet pools, Roegadyn flexing view, MB is not that far, 30 outdoor item limit, and 300 indoor item limit. The only wish I want is make the pillar and ceiling changed into other residential area's style, because Goblet ceiling is not loft friendly

Have to admit, now I have my goblet overlooking the pools, I've grown quite fond of the area. It's a lovely place.

[EZGIL]

I don't even care with Large plot now because mostly their plot is on worst area, somehow pretty far from MB, too few outdoor item limit, and too few indoor item limit. Mostly satisfied with it as FC house than private house.

The Medium plot on the other hard is probably the BiS for private house. Like the one I have, near Goblet pools, Roegadyn flexing view, MB is not that far, 30 outdoor item limit, and 300 indoor item limit. The only wish I want is make the pillar and ceiling changed into other residential area's style, because Goblet ceiling is not loft friendly

Yeah, I did notice in Empy that all the large plots are along the edges. While the mediums are more center oriented. My medium is almost in the center and I love it.

[Zaniel]

You can EASILY outfit a full medium house with 300 slots but only if you are doing a standardised non-glitch/non-combine style of house, ie just get stuff and put it down. Once you move into the glitching/combining level of building then yeah I can see my medium house running out of slots pretty quickly.

My larger beef is the outdoor limit but I don't see that changing due to server/shared space issues in the outside world.

[Issaella]

As time goes on this will get easier. They have increased server upgrades to make servers stronger already, so I think it could be possible.

For the outside item limit it's not a server issue. It's a rendering issue. The client has to render every single item in the entire housing zone. So if you were to increase the outdoor item limit even by a small amount it would dramatically increase the total number of items the client has to render. That is the problem, or so they say.

I think 2 things they could do to at least help out with the limit: 1) Remove the aetheryte node requirement to teleport to your house. Requiring it for houses is completely arbitrary, because it's not required to teleport to apartments. It unlocks as soon as you buy one. 2) Make the mailbox part of the Placard/Outdoor design system instead of a placed item. Those 2 QoL changes alone would free up 2 outdoor slots for people to place.