Finally saw the inside of a house.. completely over it....

[Rhysati]

I definitely miss the days of SWG where you had entire player-run cities with completely uninstanced housing.

But alas, instancing is all the rage in the MMO world right now, so I'm not surprised at all to know that the insides of the houses are instanced. I would have actually been rather shocked if they weren't.

[Ifervan]

Guess you are right but tis just a waste.

But this also means they can easily create player housing thru the Inn rooms in the cities like mog houses. A housing exterior is pointless really.

Sorry just not what I envisioned when they first ran it, don't recall them ever saying it was instanced so i guess I assumed it would not be.

Especially since they kept referencing to the housing in Ultima.

[Worm]

Especially since they kept referencing to the housing in Ultima.

Well I can see where you'd be disappointed if they were saying that. I agree non-instanced stuff is a lot cooler but who knows if they were afraid of some technical limitations later on? The instanced housing in EQ2 didn't bother me and most of the better houses did cost money if I remember right.

[SoulKhan]

I demand personal housing...

[Noshpan]

Well I can see where you'd be disappointed if they were saying that. I agree non-instanced stuff is a lot cooler but who knows if they were afraid of some technical limitations later on? The instanced housing in EQ2 didn't bother me and most of the better houses did cost money if I remember right.

Though the housing in EQ2 was instanced, you could have other people come to your house (especially in regards to the market boards/ broker). You can even grant special permission to friends you trust to rearrange your furniture.

Honestly, I would have been surprised if the FC housing wasn't instanced. I figure having the housing instanced would be less strain on the [already strained] servers.

[Kelvani]

I thought the purpose of having a limit of 30 plots per zone was so that the housing would not be instanced? It doesn't bother me either way, but it makes no sense to me to have a limitation on the instance for the outside, and then a separate one for the inside.