What's Your Dream Version of Player Housing?

[Router]

A 2 day cycle would result in more bids on a single plot, not less. There would be fewer houses available without changing the number of players trying to get a house. Most players would find it even more frustrating.

If anything, there's too many plots available right now. My server has 27 non-FC plots that are vacant and it gets worse every lottery cycle. The system can't keep up. There's similar numbers on most servers (your own server has 30!).
Besides, even on "guaranteed bid" plots, people tend to miss out on bidding day 1. A LB41 (basically the best plot in the game) opened up about a week ago on my server and by the end of the first day it had less than 100 bids. By the end of the lottery? 500 bids. People were not waiting to see if it was a good idea to bid on this plot (it wasn't, 400+ bids lmao), they just didn't get around to bidding until later because most people do not religiously check open plots. A quicker system would only lead to more bids if people actually cared enough to check plots every single day, which is just not how most people play the game.

[Merrigan]

I'm using this thread (and the forum, which is a bit more dynamic than the housing thread) to find out if there's any news about the increase in decoration objects?

[Vinter]

I loved housing player cities in SWG so much, though once I got my Yacht from the pre-order, I pretty much lived in that in orbit around Tattooine or Naboo. I can't imagine them ever getting it to work properly here though.

I had a friend who did the same. She didn't do any combat content at all, her entire gameplay experience was throwing parties on the yacht and organising monthly server events. I'll never forgive Smedley for what SOE did to that game. RIP Cult of the Sarlacc.

[Connor]

More of a minor thing than ‘big dream’ lol but I really wish we could reposition the houses slightly when building on plots.

The position of the house in certain plots can end up restricting how much space you have to place outdoor furnishings which makes trying to have a decent looking garden really hard lol. Naturally this applies mostly to small plots. Like the current one I have now gives me like a small L shape space to place furnishings with the base exterior. I recently changed to the Comfy Cottage (I think that’s what it was lol) exterior and while it looks great, I ended up having to remove a ton of outdoor furnishing because everything was clipping into it!

I feel like if I could just move the plot to the right and maybe back just a bit would make all the difference for designing the exterior. I mean, I don’t even know if that’s possible from a programming/technical standpoint, but it would be nice if we could lol

[Jojoya]

If anything, there's too many plots available right now. My server has 27 non-FC plots that are vacant and it gets worse every lottery cycle. The system can't keep up. There's similar numbers on most servers (your own server has 30!).
Besides, even on "guaranteed bid" plots, people tend to miss out on bidding day 1. A LB41 (basically the best plot in the game) opened up about a week ago on my server and by the end of the first day it had less than 100 bids. By the end of the lottery? 500 bids. People were not waiting to see if it was a good idea to bid on this plot (it wasn't, 400+ bids lmao), they just didn't get around to bidding until later because most people do not religiously check open plots. A quicker system would only lead to more bids if people actually cared enough to check plots every single day, which is just not how most people play the game.

That's 27-30 plots that became available over a 9 day period. Break that down into a 2 day period, with only one day available to enter, and there will be fewer houses available each lottery period for everyone that is looking for a house.

Right now, no one needs to check plots daily because the supply isn't changing daily. Additional plots don't get added to the lottery once an entry period starts so players only need to check once during the 5 day entry period.

If changed to your suggestion, someone who wants a house would start checking every other day because that's how often the available supply would change. They will no longer be able to afford to wait like they can now.

I'm using this thread (and the forum, which is a bit more dynamic than the housing thread) to find out if there's any news about the increase in decoration objects?

Nothing new has been said so far other than that it's coming.

I'm hoping it will be mentioned in the Live Letter this weekend since the x.1 patch has tended to be when we get the major housing updates.

[Router]

If changed to your suggestion, someone who wants a house would start checking every other day because that's how often the available supply would change. They will no longer be able to afford to wait like they can now.

Agree to disagree, but from what I can see many people only engage in the lottery because it's low effort and they can lazily check every now and then. Back when relocations were a thing, it was ridiculously easy to relocate to a good plot by checking daily because most people didn't bother (within a week of getting a small, I was given the opportunity to relocate into two mediums just by randomly checking every day). It's easy to say you would check daily but most people do not care about housing that much (as evidenced by the huge amount of undecorated houses won by apathetic bids). Would some people check daily? Of course, but there would statistically be people who would not bother with a daily grind like that, especially after a period of months.

[PrinceBrightstar]

I'd like to see SE use cloud servers to house additional wards so the whole housing crisis isn't a thing anymore for those that want something larger than a small.

[lolnotacat]

I had a friend who did the same. She didn't do any combat content at all, her entire gameplay experience was throwing parties on the yacht and organising monthly server events. I'll never forgive Smedley for what SOE did to that game. RIP Cult of the Sarlacc.

It's funny how strong of a community a game can foster when there's friction and every playstyle needs each other.

Though to be fair, it wasn't just Smedly that ruined the game. Don't forget Julio Torres for turning it into a WoW clone.

[Brixy]

Use solution 9 for instant housing. Electrope is the perfect solution (pun intended) since it's already been used to alter the design of complete areas already. It just makes too much sense to pass this up.

- Allow everyone to buy an instanced house of any size they want/can afford. Add an option to the mog station for houses in a similar manner that you can buy extra retainers for a couple of dollars a month. Once bought, If you want a large layout, then you can buy it for 50M in game and decorate it. If you only want a small, then you can buy one for 3M. Etc...

-keep the current wards how they are. Add an option for instant housing to allow players to buy and create wards and choose various styles for it. Players could then invite or request other people to add their houses into these custom wards. Focused wards could then be created for venue groups, designer houses, jumping puzzles, etc... instead of it being an absolute chore to find a specific house for whatever you are looking to visit.

The current housing system is designed to be as predatory as possible. The devs are fully aware that people gobble up the houses and sell them for real money. They also are fully aware that a lot of their subs are tied to the current system that forces people to stay subscribed to keep their houses. This solution fixes both problems since anyone could own a house, eliminating the RMT of selling houses, as well as locking more people into paying a very slightly increased sub to keep their instant house. Win/win for everyone.

[Rinoa_353]

Make all plots be able to be upgraded so that those with smalls and mediums can upgrade to a mansion eventually, those that buy and have existing mansions would not need to be upgraded. Each upgrade would cost what the base medium and then mansions cost, so it'll still be a Gil sink. This would make all existing smalls on Dynamis that are sitting there be wanted and upgraded to mansions. Those with mansions can even choose to downsize and they still have to pay the size house they want but keep their mansion size yards and have a cottage for example.

Allow alts to share your home and allow personal homes to have rooms like a FC does. Also limit one personal and one FC plot per data center and force those with multiple plots in a world to have to demolish and they will be refunded the Gil they paid for the plot plus a bonus of some sorts depending how decorated their plots were. This would cut down three people owning an entire ward that's not needed and is unfair. Since the game can already detect your account, allow your alts from other data centers to be tenants to your personal homes so that they can teleport there and use it, some players may just have one personal plot that all of their alts spread across different data centers can share.