Housing Plot Instanced

[LalafellDown]

Not sure if this is possible but has anyone brought up this idea?

Add instanced housing to the current district.
Each owner of a house will see their house only on the plot they buy, but an option to see random houses pop up on their plot and all plots over time or each time the player loads into a zone.

Have all plots randomly show different player houses over time or when loading into zone.

Plots are instances, where entering your house plot (inside the fence perimeter) area takes you to your instanced house, but you can still see the housing district and the other houses around your house.

This way the housing divisions will still feel like a community and everyone can get a house wherever they choose to build one.

[Reinha]

I don't want my house to be hidden from view. That's what apartments are for.

[Shadow_Lilly]

So when you want to visit someone's plot, you can't because that idea would prevent that (although it would create way more houses for everyone)

[Stormpeaks]

No thank you, there are other games with instanced housing, ffxiv is ward housing.

[Burmecia]

OPs idea is very kind, but not very practical. There is wayyy too many small plots. Let's not pretend that while yes, many people are happy with their small plots, there is also quite few small plot owners who would prefer medium, or large, and supply is keeping them from owning the preferred plot.

To some people the yard and the garden is big thing. And I personally enjoy taking walk around random ward to see peoples houses (if they're open). Neatly put garden and yard is eyecatcher.

I think I'd just take apartment update instead.

[Kaiproberts]

It's a good idea, the best instanced idea yet, but the people who love this game for housing want neighborhoods. Every other MMO in existence has instanced housing; There's only two I know of that have had neighborhoods.

That being said, there is not enough space to do this assuming people could buy whatever size house they wanted. The demand for larges, on my server, is double the demand for mediums. A ton of people would have larges and there would be no open neighborhood to randomly spawn their large into. It would be like the problem of adding a lot more wards. People will instantly buy the larges and maybe mediums but all of the smalls would be completely empty.

[Reinha]

That being said, there is not enough space to do this assuming people could buy whatever size house they wanted. The demand for larges, on my server, is double the demand for mediums. A ton of people would have larges and there would be no open neighborhood to randomly spawn their large into. It would be like the problem of adding a lot more wards. People will instantly buy the larges and maybe mediums but all of the smalls would be completely empty.

Imagine being an owner of a large and having 50 people constantly teleporting to their large that is in the same spot as yours. Like those bot swarms teleporting in cities, but in front of your own house that is supposed to be a sanctuary.

[Jojoya]

Imagine being an owner of a large and having 50 people constantly teleporting to their large that is in the same spot as yours. Like those bot swarms teleporting in cities, but in front of your own house that is supposed to be a sanctuary.

That's what some players want. They want to see others coming and going in front of their house so it feels like part of an active neighborhood and not a ghost town.

If you want your house to be a sanctuary, instanced housing would do the job much better than the current ward system that allows anyone and everyone to pile into your yard if they want (not to mention inside your house if guest access is enabled).

[Reinha]

That's what some players want. They want to see others coming and going in front of their house so it feels like part of an active neighborhood and not a ghost town.

If you want your house to be a sanctuary, instanced housing would do the job much better than the current ward system that allows anyone and everyone to pile into your yard if they want (not to mention inside your house if guest access is enabled).

Nobody wants to see characters appearing and disappearing in an instant in front of their house like a bot swarm 24/7. Stop lying. People teleporting to the gate then disappearing to their own instance isn't an active neighborhood, it's a nuisance.

Funny how it's been said "instanced housing wouldn't affect ward housing" except then multiple players including you brainstorm ways to ruin ward housing. A bit of hypocrisy there, hmm? People can mass teleport to the apartment building instead of my gate.

[Jojoya]

Nobody wants to see characters appearing and disappearing in an instant in front of their house like a bot swarm 24/7. Stop lying. People teleporting to the gate then disappearing to their own instance isn't an active neighborhood, it's a nuisance.

Funny how it's been said "instanced housing wouldn't affect ward housing" except then multiple players including you brainstorm ways to ruin ward housing. A bit of hypocrisy there, hmm? People can mass teleport to the apartment building instead of my gate.

How much time do you spend standing in your yard by yourself looking at the placard that you would even notice it happening? You're definitely not going to see it happening if you are inside of your house.

You're also greatly exaggerating how often it would happen considering those owning the instanced version of your plot would still be spread across 60 wards/subdivisions. You're not going to see every player on your world picking the same plot not to mention most of the time players aren't even in the wards. They'll be out playing the rest of the game.

Keep in mind this isn't how I would want instanced housing to be set up. I want instanced housing to take us out of the wards and give us options throughout the game world, just as RIFT did with Dimensions. But since this thread is about the OP's suggestion, I was mentioning ways that it might work out.