A suggestion about houses

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After checking out the new Coldharbour house recently, an idea struck me that I wanted to share with the community.

You see, for those who haven't checked it out yet, said new house is basically an open space that can be filled in any way the player sees fit. The description even says "Is available to be developed however you like."

Now I do love the idea of having open spaces as part of the housing system that can be designed from scratch in a Minecraft esque way. Adding something like this to the game was, in my opinion, a great move by the developers. Therefore my suggestion concerning this matter is twofold.

1. Give us more housing options like this. Coldharbour is great, but not everyone likes the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the place, and so different settings similar to it should be available. Something in Auridon or Summerset comes to mind for example, especially considering that it would thematically fit the new Chapter. Another option would be some place in the desert, on the beach, in the jungle or in any other kind of place/climate zone imaginable. With enough options to choose from, I'm sure most players who are interested in that kind of sandboxy housing experience would be able to find something that fits their tastes.

2. Give us more tools to work with. I have built a little addition to my home, the Black Vine Villa, to serve as housing for my trusty wolf mount. For that I used the stone building blocks that can be bought from housing NPCs, which worked very well, but I had to improvise for the roof, found out there were no doors etc.. If we want to be able to build proper houses, we need things to build houses with. If the proper items were to be added to the game, I'm sure peoples creativity in utilizing them would know no bounds.

Here is an image of what I have built with what is currently in the game for those interested, just to show what could possibly be achieved if we had a few more housing items designed for this purpose.

https://prnt.sc/j32qtz

Inarre

I agree, but I also think these places should have their item cap increased accordingly. Having to spend your item cap on blocks to build what others already have for free is what makes those places hard to justify for anything other than a dueling ring or a functioable bare bones crafting area.

VilniusNastavnik

Problem with this house is we don't have actual housing pieces, only scaffolding. I'd like to see actual walls and roof pieces so that we can make an actual house. Also double the housing slots for all categories.

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Inarre wrote: »

I agree, but I also think these places should have their item cap increased accordingly. Having to spend your item cap on blocks to build what others already have for free is what makes those places hard to justify for anything other than a dueling ring or a functioable bare bones crafting area.

True, having a housing item cap that fits the needs of those who want to build something on a bit of a bigger scale would definitely be a requirement. I forgot to mention that in my initial post. You do have a very valid point there.

VilniusNastavnik wrote: »

Problem with this house is we don't have actual housing pieces, only scaffolding. I'd like to see actual walls and roof pieces so that we can make an actual house. Also double the housing slots for all categories.

That is exactly what I meant with my second point. We do need more items that can be used to build houses if we want to be able to build them from scratch in a place like the Coldharbour house.