Housing Credit System

[Catstab]

Crafting, combat, and time also produce gil. I still think the fix is putting ARR prices back. 40m small, 200m medium, 500m large. Those were the original prices.

Players: Please, cheaper!
Yoshi P: The rich will buy entire wards, then
Players: Please!

We literally begged devs for the system we have currently. This suggestion seems sort of in spirit with bringing the prices back up, so that essentially players 1-5 months old aren't competing for houses with 6-18 months old players. Unfortunately, I don't see an entirely new housing only currency being programmed in, any more than an instanced housing system.

[sharlim]

Crafting, combat, and time also produce gil. I still think the fix is putting ARR prices back. 40m small, 200m medium, 500m large. Those were the original prices.

Players: Please, cheaper!
Yoshi P: The rich will buy entire wards, then
Players: Please!

We literally begged devs for the system we have currently. This suggestion seems sort of in spirit with bringing the prices back up, so that essentially players 1-5 months old aren't competing for houses with 6-18 months old players. Unfortunately, I don't see an entirely new housing only currency being programmed in, any more than an instanced housing system.

New currencies are programmed in all the time, this piggybacks off the token system we have for every new raid tier, trial etc.

The benefit of the token system over gil is the rate which you make gil is not directly related to your time investment. This system would be similar to the "hunt log" and "craft log" except reward you with a token.

[Catstab]

New currencies are programmed in all the time

FC credits, gil, tomestones, etc has all existed for years. Now if you're saying "like raid tokens" then you mean an actual inventory item? That sounds like a mistake "Oops I left my housing tokens on my retainer"

[sharlim]

FC credits, gil, tomestones, etc has all existed for years. Now if you're saying "like raid tokens" then you mean an actual inventory item? That sounds like a mistake "Oops I left my housing tokens on my retainer"

Yep, you got it. Personally to me it sounds exclusive and fun.

[Rofel]

Yep, you got it. Personally to me it sounds exclusive and fun.

"Exclusive and fun" lol

At least you wrote personaly, which is an important detail: you're sugesting an activity log based on stuff YOU think are relevant in a game that caters to a multitude of playstyles. And the devs themselves recognize this, having differences in playstyle reason enough for a vote kick.

So, yeah. By making the system worse you're just hiding the problem, not addressing it at all. Hard pass.

[sharlim]

"Exclusive and fun" lol

At least you wrote personaly, which is an important detail: you're sugesting an activity log based on stuff YOU think are relevant in a game that caters to a multitude of playstyles. And the devs themselves recognize this, having differences in playstyle reason enough for a vote kick.

So, yeah. By making the system worse you're just hiding the problem, not addressing it at all. Hard pass.

Yep, we're really all sharing opinions on these forums and not facts for the most part, since we don't have alot of data on player activity and strong correlations on player behaviors to different feature releases etc.

In retrospect I should have maybe titled it "housing skill tree" since I'm proposing essentially tokens to unlock nodes in a tree or graph. IMO this approach would make the housing system better and cater to multiple playstyles (raiding, crafting etc), but that might not have been clear from all the discussions so far or you may not agree, and that's OK.