Housing Idea: Personal Chambers in Private Estates

[SingleMaltFan]

Apologies if this has been suggested before, but I searched and didn't see it anywhere.

Free Company estates already have private chambers, so the coding is already in the game and functioning without problems. Why couldn't SE let private estates have the same functionality? Ideally, a private estate owner would not be limited to one chamber.

This would be of most benefit to small house owners, since they could add more rooms and significantly increase their space. Even medium and large owners could use them to set up specialty or themed rooms.

Why not remove the one room per person limit on FC private chambers as well? I doubt there are many FCs that push the current limit of available rooms. This would help out FCs with too many members to comfortably fit in a small house. True, private chambers are small, but if FC leaders could buy extra rooms and set them up as communal spaces, then there would at least be more spots to hang out.

If SE wanted to turn this into a massive gil sink, prices for additional rooms could steadily increase. The more rooms you have, the more the next one will cost.

Maybe there's some issue that I'm missing, but I don't really see a down side to this.

[Theodric]

I'm all for it. Especially since it would be a massive boost to the economy and allow furniture to be in higher demand!

[Nioh]

all up for it

[Ceridwenae]

Yes. This would be awesome.

[HeyMcFly]

I'm in favor of this

[Seraphor]

Presumably there's still a finite cap on the number of 'rooms' that can exist on a server. Rooms in this case covering both private quarters and apartments.
If this private chamber in a private house took up the 'apartment' slot (meaning you could either have an apartment, or a private room in your own house) then I could see it working.

[SingleMaltFan]

Presumably there's still a finite cap on the number of 'rooms' that can exist on a server. Rooms in this case covering both private quarters and apartments.
If this private chamber in a private house took up the 'apartment' slot (meaning you could either have an apartment, or a private room in your own house) then I could see it working.

My understanding is that private chambers and apartments are instanced, so they don't take up space when no one is in them. Sure, there has to be somewhere to store the data on what items are in the room and where they're placed, but that data is only loaded when someone enters the room. A home owner could have 100 rooms, but only one (the one they're in) would be active at any given time.

The system already has the capacity for, I believe, 512 private chambers per FC, and multiple FC members could be in their rooms at the same time. I don't see how additional rooms in private estates would stress the servers any more than FCs currently do.

[Divinemights]

Errrrr the whole point of owning a private estate because it is your “private chamber” and you decides what your rooms going to be looks like?

[DrWho2010]

plus if the owner of the private estate loses the house to auto-demolish that means all the tenants are screwed. lol

[Edax]

I'd be for it since the item limit for mansions is so limiting. Even if it's artificial, I'd at least have more theoretical room to work with. My house still doesn't have a bathroom.