Questions about housing

[Anonymoose]

Am I in the minority for not liking the idea of instanced neighborhoods? The whole point of housing, to me, is to have a place for myself and my company. I don't really know much about the concept, but I mean, are we going to be seeing other people's stuff everywhere when we want to go back to our housing? I'd rather just have separate ones.

[Zenaku]

Am I in the minority for not liking the idea of instanced neighborhoods? The whole point of housing, to me, is to have a place for myself and my company. I don't really know much about the concept, but I mean, are we going to be seeing other people's stuff everywhere when we want to go back to our housing? I'd rather just have separate ones.

example yoshi-p said is let's say you buy a home. there 15 other homes you can walk around the instanced area and see other people homes and what there growing. But to enter your home i think they need a invite and such so to somewhat answer your question yes you be seeing other people house itself but to enter you may need a invite.

I really wish SE allow us to get a full instanced for just our friends. Seeing random people around i don't know going to suck lol. I mean you could simple just buy a lot at the sametime on a open area but you still get random people.

[Mjollnir]

Am I in the minority for not liking the idea of instanced neighborhoods? The whole point of housing, to me, is to have a place for myself and my company. I don't really know much about the concept, but I mean, are we going to be seeing other people's stuff everywhere when we want to go back to our housing? I'd rather just have separate ones.

If you want a company neighbourhood, you could always demand that your rich friends buy up the whole instance and then sell them to your poorer friends as they get the funds. Or get the whole company together and go buy out an instance at the same time (housing raid!). Even if a couple of houses in 'your' instance are bought by randoms, I'm sure they wouldn't mind moving if you asked them, being as all instances are identical (aside from the people in them). Perhaps you might even make new friends to join or ally with your company?

Until we see it in action though, I'm mostly basing my opinion on it on what I've experienced in other games. Not sure of the ins and outs of re-selling, if there's going to be rent, etc. (one thing I liked in LotRO was the teleport to house function.. it meant you could have your personal house in the Shire and your guild house in Bree and hence be able to get around a lot quicker - that's just one argument for not having your personal and guild house in the same instance).

[Hvinire]

For those of you concerned about land limits, or players running out of available land to build on, remember way back in Letter from the Producer LIVE 3, Yoshi-P mentioned the following about housing:

0:59:26 To prevent disputes over land, housing areas will be instanced. After the maximum number of houses are sold in one instance, players will be asked to purchase land in a different one. More instances will be added as necessary.

So don't worry!

[Isanien]

For those of you concerned about land limits, or players running out of available land to build on, remember way back in Letter from the Producer LIVE 3, Yoshi-P mentioned the following about housing:



So don't worry!

Ah cool! ^.^
I think when I read that I misinterpreted it as meaning that they would add them manually over time.
Thank you for clearing this up!