Housing Plot Instanced

[Jojoya]

My subscription hasn't lapsed since 2016, that's a 9 year streak, due in part I maintain my subscription to keep my plots. Now you can offer me a house that isn't able to be demolished. Sure it doesn't demolish. But S.E isn't going to want that free money walking away. In the current system I would lose both of them if I decided to take some time off. So I don't and my subscription continues.

With Ward Housing anyone who's plot is standing has been there within the last 45 days, if they havent then their plot went back up for bid. So everyone with a plot is considered active at the time.

A instanced plot (Not housing) (should) have a plot to plant stuff. But it should be limited to friends list. So you can do everything that plot owners can do. Except it lacks a physical space in the open and it isn't as easy to access for the masses. That way ward housing still has its appeal.

SE lets free money walk away all the time. Strange that I've had to keep pointing out for the last couple of months that demolition is suspended on the JP data centers still. That's one heck of a lot of free money they're potentially losing.

I think you mention there what the appeal of ward housing to many is - a physical presence in the "open" that instanced housing will lack. No need to restrict instanced housing to friends only when most players aren't going to go out of their way to search for the housing of random players yet it leaves the option open for those few players who would.

Most of those who like to casually tour houses will still stick to the wards for the convenience. A nicely decorated outside is more likely to lead to a nicely decorated inside so players get an idea of what to skip and what to check out. It would be a lot more hit and miss with instanced housing, unless SE were to implement a public like system such as RIFT had instead of keeping likes more private in the message books (you have to check the book to see the likes).

No reason it can’t be a fully functional plot, inside and out, with the same visitation restrictions panel they already made for the Island.

I doubt an improved instanced housing system would include intercross gardening (crossbreeding for seeds). Instances do not have actual weather like the open world does.

Don't forget that garden patches don't work on IS. If they didn't do it there, they are unlikely to do it with instanced housing.

That is one thing that will help retain appeal for the ward houses. If you want to get Thavnairian Onion seeds, they'll have to come from a ward house garden. If someone wants to buy seeds off the marketboard just to grow for the item, that would still be possible just as we can do it in apartments. But we would not be able to get seeds.