House Listing Board

Cpt_Teemo

Have boards in each of the zones that you can currently purchase houses in and let it list all public houses that people are able to go and visit so we don't have to rely on an addon to do it, should have been in from the start tbh.

SHADOW2KK

Yes

Agreed

VaranisArano

I'm pretty confused by what you mean.

Are you asking for us to be able to travel to the available houses to preview them? That's already in game, through the crown store and the map.

Or are you asking for us to be able to see which houses owned by friends/guildmates we can visit? In that case, given that you can be in guilds with up to 2500 unique members, max, who can all have multiple homes, that seems like that would be information overload. The current system allows us to choose an individual and travel to their current active residence, if we are included in their permissions, which works pretty well for viewing the houses of individuals you know or random guildmates.

Now if by public house you meant that we should be able to mark which house is the "Guild Hall" in an obvious manner, I agree that this would be beneficial to guilds. The current method is for guilds to list their Guild Hall on the Message of the Day, but this could be more user-friendly by having a specific place on the guild tab for a Guild Hall.

Cpt_Teemo

Yes

Yeah a way for us to view other peoples houses not listed as primary, but also have it in an orderly fashion so it the board doesn't get to messed up, maybe like 100 listings per page and have the option to visit whenever you want and will only be listed if the houses are public, just like how Swtor's does it but without the prestige.

But to show whose house is first on list and last, it could be alphabetical order or it could be based on login time as well.

theslynx

There are add-ons for this?

Cpt_Teemo

Yes

Yes, but I would rather really have another way in game including those on consoles to be able to view everyone's houses not just the primary

kargen27

I would like to see a drop down menu in place of the visit primary residence that would allow you to visit all the houses the person has set to allow in permissions.

Would also like to be able to right click on a house in the map menu and have it list random users that have that house I could visit. People would of course have to give permission for their house to appear on that random list.

And one more thing (for now) we need a guest book in our house people can sign as they visit. The guest book could either keep the message so we can read it when we return to the house or the message could be sent to us in the mail. Short of that at least we should get a list of people who came visiting.

I visit homes of random guild mates and sometimes send mail telling them how much I like the house or comment on something I really liked. The responses I get back show me that a lot of people would like comments on their homes.

Cpt_Teemo

Yes

kargen27 wrote: »

I would like to see a drop down menu in place of the visit primary residence that would allow you to visit all the houses the person has set to allow in permissions.

Would also like to be able to right click on a house in the map menu and have it list random users that have that house I could visit. People would of course have to give permission for their house to appear on that random list.

And one more thing (for now) we need a guest book in our house people can sign as they visit. The guest book could either keep the message so we can read it when we return to the house or the message could be sent to us in the mail. Short of that at least we should get a list of people who came visiting.

I visit homes of random guild mates and sometimes send mail telling them how much I like the house or comment on something I really liked. The responses I get back show me that a lot of people would like comments on their homes.

Yeah something along the lines of that to allow people to visit everyone's houses that are public

OmniDo

Yes

Considering there are arbitrary limitations (set by Z0$ for <insert reason(s) here>) for the maximum number of players that can visit a player housing instance, having a public list might not be useful unless it also displayed the total number of visitors or occupants at the time. Even that would require a queue option since a common problem with "house hopping" (I am in two housing guilds and we experience this issue quite often) is that if too many players try to visit a home and the visitor cap is reached, it can cause the game client to crash.
This can lead to frustration due to the lost time spent re-launching the client and re-logging back in, waiting for loading screens, etc...

theslynx

Wait, so if I have my default house privileges set to visitor, random people can use add-ons to visit it? That's weird. People do this?

Gargath

No

Why would anyone wait a long time to load someone's house just to see it, probably the top houses would be those bought and equipped with crowns. There is no fun in this.
What I'd prefer to see first is different categories: house bought for crowns and bought for gold. Next the furnitures crafted and bought by gold and these bought by crowns in few clicks.
If the house was purchased with gold and the furnitures created by crafting, it means a lot of love, time, imagination and efforts put in creation, thus the results are worth my time to check. A simple purchase with crowns with few clicks is not worth my time.
With such categories, I'm up for this idea. Without I'm not interested.

Anyway, it's an interesting idea, which exists in SWTOR from a long time, so nothing new.

Streega

No

Hrogun

Yes

That system worked pretty well on SWTOR and allowed for some nice roleplay. I'ld love to see something quite similar here...

emilyhyoyeon

Yes

there's a option to set your house open to anyone??

Zhaedri

Yes

I'd love an option like this. I have a bunch of homes and I enjoy decorating them, but no one visits them but me and the occasional person I can wrangle into 'show and tell' with housing.

Vanthras79

Yes

I can always use more test subjects... I mean I would love to have some aspiring mages visit my mushroom tower.