The Free Company Housing Dilemma

[AldusNow]

On overpopulated and standard worlds, I'm sure most would agree that it is very difficult for new free companies to buy a house in order to get the most out of what a free company has to offer.

What if there were an added feature sometime down the road that gave a free company the option to buy something like an instanced fortress instead?

It could offer the same features a house has, and even more things specifically geared toward a free company.

One example: you could have defensive upgrades for the fortress and you hire NPCs to guard it from sieges that enemy NPCs initiate occasionally, maybe a few times a day. I'm thinking of something similar to a fate, but you get a small notification when the fortress is under attack, then players in the free company can choose whether to help defend the fortress and gain exclusive items and company seals, etc.

If the fortress isn't properly defended by free company NPCs and/or free company members, interior fortress access is disabled until repaired. It would most likely not be very expensive, similar to how airship repairs are done. I'd also imagine it should be fairly easy for FC NPCs to defend it alone if SE were to implement something like this. Wouldn't want this event to take away from the other aspects of the game by needing too much attention.

If implemented correctly, the events should be almost non invasive to the other experiences the game has to offer. The fortress repairs would have similar frequency to airship repairs, and the events shouldn't be frequent enough to be able to farm them all day.

Just an idea, take it or leave it. Thanks for your time if you read this.

[Kazrah]

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As for the idea, one of the reasons why I quit WoW was because of garrisons, so I definitely wouldn't want to see them in this game either.

[Bixillarla]

No thank you. Not interested in fortress battles.

[stardrifter]

I'm all for adding additional functionality to housing, but first they need to make it 1 per FC or person, right now I see in the goblet on my server an FC that owns 6 houses! wtf... fix the system now then add things.

[Rakiria]

I\\'m all for adding additional functionality to housing, but first they need to make it 1 per FC or person, right now I see in the goblet on my server an FC that owns 6 houses! wtf... fix the system now then add things.

That is multiple fcs with the same name, most Likely owned by house sellers.

On the main topic, that would mean more features for fcs who previously did not have a house, or if those can get a fortress too, they would have the advantage of having two houses. And SE can\\'t just takeaway the regular houses either, since the fcs who bought them worked to get them, and, at least some of them, worked to get that exact plot in that exact housing area. I\\'d be angry if we lost our lavender beds mansion.
What I think would be a Simler option would be the option to buy am instanced area for the price of a regular house with a size and theme (housing area) choice, and since there\\\\'s a moving feature coming, you could always move from your instance to an actual house. This gives at least some housing to fcs who are struggling with that without being unfair towards anyone.