That's great... but can we have an INSTANCED Housing area

[SerLuke]

If they upgraded into their own pocket worlds, and the limits on wards was removed I think we'd be well on our way to doing exactly what people who want instanced houses want. It's fine if they start out as rooms but that can't be the end goal, at least if we're talking about instanced houses lol.

Yes, exactly, thus I think if instead of these threads arguing for some new instanced housing system instead were arguing for an expansion/upgrade of the current apartment system that might actually get more leverage with the dev team because upgrading a current system is surely much less of an undertaking than a new housing system like people are asking for.

I mean obviously not everyone will be satisfied but eh it’s not possible to do that.

[Shougun]

Yes, exactly, thus I think if instead of these threads arguing for some new instanced housing system instead were arguing for an expansion/upgrade of the current apartment system that might actually get more leverage with the dev team because upgrading a current system is surely much less of an undertaking than a new housing system like people are asking for.

I mean obviously not everyone will be satisfied but eh it’s not possible to do that.

Honestly I think people would see those two ideas as the same thing. Not saying they are, but like if I presented:

Do you either want-

A. I expand apartments to the point they're their own space, you have an inside and outside like a cottage in the woods. You can use all the features of housing, all of them. You can also upgrade the plot sizes.

B. I create a system that does exactly what I just said above.. it's just not apartments.

I think people would be like.. Uh... I just care about the features and sooner is better than later, I don't care what path you took behind the scenes to get there. lol. I think that's too much minutiae at that point, maybe something they'll care about, but for us it doesn't fit the general sense of "this is what I want, and that (currently) doesn't do it".

So like a vague timeline of features in game (not SE's timeline but like as a player):

• Early MSQ, inn rooms.
• Early MSQ (still in ARR), free room- you've established yourself enough to stay in a bare room to make your own. Gift some really basic furniture to get the player started.
• Mid MSQ, unlocks new upgrades like second floor and balcony (and whatever other minor ideas come to mind)
• Early HW, allows players to move into a small cottage (all their upgrades kept). Unlocking new minor purchases like garden plots
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• ShB- during the gap allow and unlock more upgrades that mean larger plots of land and houses, also consider allowing larger than large houses and larger than large yards (since it's a pocket space this is feasible in terms of space)
  
• ShB after completion - spoiler

Have one of the Ascian begin to teach you basic creation magic, perhaps having something unqiue happen like us seeing our mother crystal who welcomes us into a space with open arms. Meaning she's helped us out a bit, we're not mega gods at creation magic yet but with her help we've a child's play area to work with. May even have loads of fun with Emet trying to each us, whether it's actually him or just a fragment of him from his own left over magic or even our own PTSD SE could play with that a bit. But I don't really care too much how they explain the lore, that was mostly just for fun- basically now we have our own space to be god in.

The long story short, and skipping the spoiler section, we now have a space we can control the weather, sky box, ground, and can become MUCH MUCH larger if SE has the ability to do so like Wildstar or some other high creative housing.