Housing Plot Instanced

[Jojoya]

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People want a instanced house that can be upgraded in size, can freely be visited like a ward house, have all the amenities of a FC house but isnt demolishable like a apt. Why would anyone want a plot?

Ask all those who post here that say they prefer ward housing and wouldn't use instanced.

Demolition isn't needed with instanced housing because an inactive player isn't taking up server space needed by an active player.

With ward housing, the inactive player is always taking up server space that could go to an active player instead. That's why demolition exists - to give active players a chance at getting a plot when supply is low. The side effect is the need to maintain a sub since you can't log in and enter without one (unless there's a free log-in campaign conveniently timed).

I doubt that instanced housing will be able to offer intercross gardening if it's dependent on a weather cycle as has been stated by SE in the past. There's one thing to retain interest in ward housing. SE doesn't have to add workshops to instanced housing. They can leave them as a ward housing feature, assuming they don't detach them completely. FCs could be required to stick to ward housing instead of getting access to the instanced housing.

Personally if folks want instanced housing I would make it simple and accessed similar to a apartment; just a door you walk in the capital cities to enter your "home"; the problem is I am already seeing the scope creep happen as now folks want yards and such; after which they will want special ward instances so that their FC can create a neighborhood...which will sound eerily familiar to some...

Place the "door" in the wards instead and it could encourage a more lively environment for those who want ward housing.

Personally I don't see FC "neighborhoods", whether ward or instanced, working out over the long run if SE were to try implementing them. Most FCs have too much turnover. I doubt instances could be designed large enough to handle a house for every member of the larger FCs. And of course then there's the drama when members don't get along.