Housing

[Mjollnir]

Yoshi P said that it will be sort of instanced... so if one area fills up they can add more and not run out.

But you will have to pick and buy your plot of land (different sizes available) so I figure that if someone gets the plot that you wanted, you will have to wait until they make another instance available before you can try to buy it again.

Sounds like exactly the same as the system in Lord of the Rings Online. Each instanced area would hold a couple of Kinship (Linkshell) Houses, a half-dozen large houses (with a higher rent) and a dozen small houses. The area also had NPCs to access to your Vault (ie Retainer) and a shop for vending goods.

It's ok and it ensures everyone has a house, but leaves the residential areas feeling like ghost towns - more so after a few months when the population dies down.

I do like the sound of the Choco Ranch though! Kinda hoping there's a special type of storage to replace the Armoire that can keep *all* Uni/Unt items in it.

[normalforce]

Sounds like exactly the same as the system in Lord of the Rings Online. Each instanced area would hold a couple of Kinship (Linkshell) Houses, a half-dozen large houses (with a higher rent) and a dozen small houses. The area also had NPCs to access to your Vault (ie Retainer) and a shop for vending goods.

It's ok and it ensures everyone has a house, but leaves the residential areas feeling like ghost towns - more so after a few months when the population dies down.

I do like the sound of the Choco Ranch though! Kinda hoping there's a special type of storage to replace the Armoire that can keep *all* Uni/Unt items in it.

Let's hope the residential areas are the size of your average zone and not that of your average box. The new servers are supposed to be able to handle up to 600 people in one area which sounds promising.