An idea [apartment sizes]

[Razaphale]

After thinking about this for a long while now I feel that perhaps given circumstances, the housing market and constant demand for more housing has finally brought me to putting this forward.

First of all I would like the say the apartment idea that was introduced was amazing, it's an absolute joy to have. However, I still notice a lot of people complaining, and it isn't because of how it works, it's because of the size of the apartments.

My suggestion is that a page or two more apartments are added, say 3 pages to each apartment block under the headings of Small, Medium, Large.

Copy and paste the current small, medium and large size house interiors. Make these new apartments purchasable by both private owners and free companies and even tack on the workshop for free companies.

Yes it sacrifices a garden but at least this way people get the house interior they actually want and there won't be a shortage of such houses.

I'm not saying get rid of the neighbourhood feel. I'm simply suggesting that instead of adding extra wards that have a very limited amount of spaces for the housing sizes people actually want, that there should also be apartments of the corresponding sizes.

If you really want the garden then perhaps there could be a small extra room like the workshop as an example that is a green house. But I don't believe it's necessary.

This way people still have the neighbourhood feeling, but everyone gets what they want. I'm no programmer, but I imagine that it'd be far less stress on the servers to add on to the apartments than it is to add more wards?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I really do believe that apartments would be sufficient for most players if:

a) Base apartments as we have them now had at least the same item count as a small house: 200. The current limit of 100 on apartment placeables is far too restrictive.

b) Add indoor versions of the garden plots (the biggest being 8 slots) and allow apartments to place one (the same as a small house) so they can crossbreed seeds.

Those two things alone would put apartments close enough to small houses to be more than adequate for most individual players. Obviously this does nothing for Free Companies looking for a house but it might get a few of those "for sale" sign humpers out of the running when competing for a house.

More elaborate things SE could do include:

c) Add bigger sizes of apartments with bigger price tags. This requires more work than the above two things but it certainly seems feasible to implement.

d) Add FC apartments. Again this requires more work than the above two things but doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility.

I know that many people want an "outdoor" instanced area but for whatever reason, SE has some issue with adding instanced, yet outdoor spaces for housing. Until that hurdle is overcome, yards or outdoor balconies for instanced housing/apartments is probably not on the table.