Housing Ideas and Feature Requests

[Parawill]

An idea not limited to inside housing, but a simple Green screen setup would be fantastic for making videos!

[Magic-Mal]

Free Company board item!

[Letbluevannback]

Another thing: would it be possible to make fireplaces and candeholders switchable on/off? During the summer it seems silly to have the chimney lit, but it's not like I can just DEMOLISH it for the season.... Please let us stay cool without having to tear down our fireplaces.

[Knahli]

I'd love if they created something akin to vistas in Ward areas(with less intrusive graphics - if any at all) that encouraged players to sit out in public benches and other areas to both promote the populating of Wards and, at the very least, the artificial aesthetic of social interaction with other neighbours by offering things like experience boosts akin to that which you obtain by logging out in a Sanctuary or something. Anything at all that makes the Housing Wards feel more lively than they are, as was originally intended, and to give people less incentive to just idle in any random spot in front of their house and instead add to something more scenic.

Hell, I'd even love an auto-walk thing that makes your character patrol and walk around the entire ward for whenever you're afk'ing or doing anything else and basically turns you into an NPC until you choose to exit. How neat would it be to join a party with a friend or two, activate a walk/patrol command and then all of a sudden the entire group of you are following a path set out by the developers, occasionally stopping at scenic spots, automatically using an assortment of emotes and simulating conversation between the lot of you? All while you float off and do whatever else outside of the game or simply chat over your linkshells.

Screenshot central.

[KariVixen]

-this was in response to a post on pg 126 about idle roaming.

I can see myself letting it go into AFK mode just to watch it happen and meet more people. Maybe even a mode that allows the characters to enter that mode while still being able to actively chat without disabling it too.

[SokiYagami]

I think I requested or read this somewhere before, but just like to put it up again for visibility. Can we get a triple option (On/Off/Auto) for all lighting furniture please?

[Dustytome]

I'd like to see some a roof with the faire lanterns strung underneath (or just some lanterns in general). For indoors maybe some vertical strands of hanging lanterns and then strands similar to the christmas lights.

[SokiYagami]

Pretty sure I haven't saw this posted before, can we get an option to group items together so we can move them as if they are a single piece of furniture? Just like wall mount/tabletop items. Bonus if we can group "glitched" floating items too! :3

Also, any chance we can get a z-axis (up/down) movement too?

[MikeWW]

A high quality sound orchestrion that plays back the same music files used in zones, with the option to turn on and off positional DSP.

The orchestrion right now deliberately plays back heavily-processed music to give the illusion that the music is coming from a technically-limited sound reproduction device from a fantasy world. In terms of actual sound quality, it sounds like music coming from a $0.25 miniature speaker built into cheap portable devices, much worse than you can find on most modern smartphones.

[Letbluevannback]

I'd like to put this in my garden. I understand it'd need a smaller size, but please don't shrink it to a bucket.



EDIT: Also please, PLEASE put some time to work a way around the auto-demolition of ceiling lamps, walls, flooring etcetera when changed to a new one. 3.50€ for a lamp that cannot be removed once placed is rediculous. Why do we have to lose floors/walls/lamps/roofs/fences to begin with? Just have the old one return to the player's inventory, like any equipment swap.