Housing Request: Let my alternate characters roam my house as guests

Dahveed · August 26

...just like Jorn the house guard, or any other house guest.

I only have a couple (crappy) alts, but I do like to imagine they are part of a crew that know eachother, can trade and send eachother stuff etc. It would be nice to have my gang all hang out at the same place, no?

They'd be placed (and set on paths etc) just like any other furniture.

/shrug

Just an idea.

moderatelyfatman · August 26

Agree with you 100%. You're not the first person to ask for this and you won't be the last.
The other is to let the alts serve as companions.

LunaFlora · August 26

would be lovely.
though probably not very likely to happen.

SilverIce58 · August 26

LunaFlora wrote: »

would be lovely.
though probably not very likely to happen.

I agree. What problems might arise from pathing your alt character in a house, but then going in that house with said alt. Is there a clone of your alt walking around, or does the npc disappear bc you're using the model?

Syldras · August 26

SilverIce58 wrote: »

What problems might arise from pathing your alt character in a house, but then going in that house with said alt. Is there a clone of your alt walking around, or does the npc disappear bc you're using the model?

Since the easiest way for the house guest would be a copy (basically player character's sliders and armour copied to a dummy), there would be a clone then. Which would of course look strange, but I wouldn't mind that much. I'd just have to keep in mind in which homes I placed that house guest - problem solved.

Kelenan7368 · August 26

This would be way cool but I'm sure it would have to be very difficult to make happen. So I am for this, but err on the sides of the Dev's that is may take way to much time and system power to make feasible.

Dahveed · August 26

Too much time and dev power? What?

Most of the resources are already at their disposal... All they have to do is copy the sliders and cosmetics over.

And *obviously* the character would not be there if I show up on said character. Duh. No need for any "cloning" nonsense, he would just... you know... NOT BE THERE.

Modders have already done this in Skyrim, which was a *lot* more complicated to pull off in that old game with that old janky engine.

I suppose it does take dev time though, so it's kind of hard to justify making this happen instead of making the 84th reskin of a tiger mount for 30 dollars on the crown store I guess. So there's that.

Tenthirty2 · August 27

Would LOVE to see this implemented. My entire headcanon and lore for all my characters is based on the idea that they are all a "family" of a sort. Being able to have them roaming around at the same time that I'm logged into another char would fit so well.

I think it's very doable for the dev team, but they'd have to figure out how to monetize it before it ever got any traction internally. Maybe adding in new purchasable character "guest" slots or something.

But sadly I have to agree as someone already stated, it's way easier to add another "new" mount with a different coat of paint and FX to generate sales.

Anytime I see those threads with the theme of "what would YOU like to see newly added to the game, etc"...
THIS, ideas like this thread and so many others that aren't just reused\reskinned\rehashed ideas. I have little problem spending money on extras for the game but getting new functionality would be well worth the cost.