Why spend more Crowns to buy a bigger house if no one can see it but you?

Deathgiggle · September 2016

I was so excited to find out about housing and then someone mentioned a castle and I was immediately thinking that I'm gonna get one no matter the cost. Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank. If I spend 5k crowns on a nice house wouldn't you want people to see it?

I understand the reasoning behind the instancing, it's to prevent the landscape from being littered with houses and the possibility of ever running out of room. If that is the way it is released though, I'll probably just get a basic home for the extra storage and to park my toon when I'm bored.

Taleof2Cities · September 2016

Personally, between the non-stop war in Cyrodiil ... and the Dark Lord dropping anchors in nearly every Province, it'll be nice to have a few minutes of peace.

Don't forget that if other players can't enter, then those same players can't do ultimate drops in the middle of your living room (that's really a perk of housing but keep it "shh" for now).

Wow · September 2016

Maybe bigger house has bigger functionality/feature than smaller one? That's my guess. Pretty sure you should be able to do more by owning a big castle than just owning a room in an Inn

Dark_Claw · September 2016

Perhaps they'll be instanced to group leaders?

NoMoreChillies · September 2016

castles should be owned by guilds

xellink · September 2016

Deathgiggle wrote: »

I was so excited to find out about housing and then someone mentioned a castle and I was immediately thinking that I'm gonna get one no matter the cost. Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank.

Homes??? I hope those are guild halls.

And we can use the guild halls as a base to launch guild battles, just like in plain ol guild wars 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyQRSg-aTEk

SantieClaws · September 2016

Khajiit is almost certain there will be some way to allow friends to visit the house of this one.

This one she thinks housing would be a system dead before it begins if we have no way of showing off our personal taste and style to the hairless ones.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

UltimaJoe777 · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit is almost certain there will be some way to allow friends to visit the house of this one.

This one she thinks housing would be a system dead before it begins if we have no way of showing off our personal taste and style to the hairless ones.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

If I had to take a guess it'd be you can travel to a player's house via Friend, Group, or Guild list. From there you can leave normally.

GhostwalkerLD · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit is almost certain there will be some way to allow friends to visit the house of this one.

This one she thinks housing would be a system dead before it begins if we have no way of showing off our personal taste and style to the hairless ones.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Can't wait to see what you come up with, Santie!

UltimaJoe777 · September 2016

GhostwalkerLD wrote: »

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit is almost certain there will be some way to allow friends to visit the house of this one.

This one she thinks housing would be a system dead before it begins if we have no way of showing off our personal taste and style to the hairless ones.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Can't wait to see what you come up with, Santie!

You mean besides a personal Skooma Lab?

SantieClaws · September 2016

Khajiit she is thinking along the lines of a lot of rugs and cushions. Many lanterns.

A nice fireplace.

Something along the lines of this place yes?

https://youtu.be/9ggyBsXLEh8

Khajiit she is thinking she would like to keep a room in The Rosy Lion for the business travels and a nice home in Sentinel for the leisure.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Curragraigue · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit she is thinking along the lines of a lot of rugs and cushions. Many lanterns.

A nice fireplace.

Something along the lines of this place yes?

https://youtu.be/9ggyBsXLEh8

Khajiit she is thinking she would like to keep a room in The Rosy Lion for the business travels and a nice home in Sentinel for the leisure.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Khajiit has picked up many fine things.

Knootewoot · September 2016

I am happy the housing is instanced like EQ2. I am pretty sure in a near future patch when housing is released we can invite people over like EQ2 also had. As far as I can recall I could click on a door and choose the instance I wanted to enter (if public). I lived in the slums of Freeport. I don't want a huge castle. I want a small cozy house preferably in slums or ghetto. So I can more easily prey on poor people when feeding on their blood.

*hissss*

Edit: Buff vampire

Dark_Claw · September 2016

I'd love a cottage in the woods of Auridon, preferably near the Isle of Contemplation.

SantieClaws · September 2016

It would be nice also this one thinks to have a range of access options for the housing.

This one she recalls hearing from a friend in Middle Earth that it was possible to lock the door so that anyone could pop in or only those on the friends list or in the guild could pop in. Also there were chests and you could set it so only you could take things from them or people on your friends list could do so. The furniture also you could set permissions for who could move it yes.

There are times khajiit may wish to have private parties and there are times when she may wish to open the doors for all.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Knootewoot · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

It would be nice also this one thinks to have a range of access options for the housing.

This one she recalls hearing from a friend in Middle Earth that it was possible to lock the door so that anyone could pop in or only those on the friends list or in the guild could pop in. Also there were chests and you could set it so only you could take things from them or people on your friends list could do so. The furniture also you could set permissions for who could move it yes.

There are times khajiit may wish to have private parties and there are times when she may wish to open the doors for all.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Aye. I so love housing. I had a house (and even my own town called Mos Oritos) in SWG, a nice house in Vangaurd, Ryzom, EQ2, later in SWTOR, LOTRO, ArcheAge, BDO.

In Vanguard I could set permission for everything. Who can enter, who can open containers, who can move stuff around or pick up. Vanguard had a great housing system, pretty similar to ArcheAge. You had lots (with a limit) on which you could build a house. Most (not all) lots where placed so that a bunch of houses actually looked like a small town (in contrast to the clutter in ArcheAge).

I loved SWG's housing also, but it also cluttered all planets with houses placed everywhere.

TESO has a lot of existing cities with houses and I am so glad they took that approach that players can "buy" or "rent" a house in one of those existing towns like EQ2. I really hope they will add later
- set house to private/public so people can enter or not
- when set to private, add people to list who may enter
- Set permissions for each user what they may or may not do in house
- A good decoration system (place anything anywhere and not like SWTOR on fixed places) Good examples are SWG, Vanguard, ArcheAge, BDO and Shroud of the Avatar)
- Pets can roam your house (one or two, not to many depending size of house)
- New crafting motifs for furniture. Woodworker could make wooden furniture, blacksmith pots and kitchen utensils
- special theme's like a Vampire house with a coffin, skulls and blood

LaiTash · September 2016

Deathgiggle wrote: »

Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank.

I know your feelings, but it's absolutely impossible to implement something UO-style here.

TheUrbanWizard · September 2016

Are we sure you can put your house where you want? I mean, maybe they'll be set houses, different sizes, that everyone can see.

Then you essentially buy access to them, and only group members can enter. Or even invite people to, a bit like apartments in GTAO.

I've not seen any notes so sorry if I'm way off!

Leogon · September 2016

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

castles should be owned by guilds

No.

dodgehopper_ESO · September 2016

I want a Tel Mora of my own. A Mushroom fortress.

Mojmir · September 2016

I really don't care about the size or look of the house,I just need storage and crafting tables.

jircris11 · September 2016

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

castles should be owned by guilds

gods no, it would be aion/tera/bdo all over again, the guilds who buy gold from illgial sites or those who scam mmebers being the ones who actually obtain them.

Carraig · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

It would be nice also this one thinks to have a range of access options for the housing.

This one she recalls hearing from a friend in Middle Earth that it was possible to lock the door so that anyone could pop in or only those on the friends list or in the guild could pop in. Also there were chests and you could set it so only you could take things from them or people on your friends list could do so. The furniture also you could set permissions for who could move it yes.

There are times khajiit may wish to have private parties and there are times when she may wish to open the doors for all.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

I can confirm that, Santie... in a previous life my main char owned a luxury house near Duillond in Ered Luin, on the road to the Shire. Access to the house and to various interactions was controllable. It was even possible to allow people to pay the rent (which he never asked of his friends/kinship-mates, of course). Ah, it was a peaceful elven neighbourhood, almost heaven after the long battles against the forces of evil. A warm place to place trophies and recall the epic fights together with kinship-mates and remember the fallen while drinking some good Green Dragon Ale.

SantieClaws · September 2016

Carraig wrote: »

I can confirm that, Santie... in a previous life my main char owned a luxury house near Duillond in Ered Luin, on the road to the Shire. Access to the house and to various interactions was controllable. It was even possible to allow people to pay my rent (which he never asked of my friends/kinship-mates, of course). Ah, it was a peaceful elven neighbourhood, almost heaven after the long battles against the forces of evil. It was a warm place to place trophies and recall the epic fights together with kinship-mates and remember the fallen while drinking some good Green Dragon Ale.

Khajiit also sometimes has dreams of another life long, long ago. As a fair dwarvern maiden named Rosiebelle Rabbitbane who wishes for nothing more than beard ribbons and another frilly festival dress. Misty visions of a house in Bree by the lakeside and of guild parties at a large elven style building.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Malmai · September 2016

Deathgiggle wrote: »

I was so excited to find out about housing and then someone mentioned a castle and I was immediately thinking that I'm gonna get one no matter the cost. Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank. If I spend 5k crowns on a nice house wouldn't you want people to see it?

I understand the reasoning behind the instancing, it's to prevent the landscape from being littered with houses and the possibility of ever running out of room. If that is the way it is released though, I'll probably just get a basic home for the extra storage and to park my toon when I'm bored.

RIP server ? I mean cmon the game runs very poorly imagine all the houses all the lag...

AlienSlof · September 2016

SantieClaws wrote: »

Khajiit she is thinking along the lines of a lot of rugs and cushions. Many lanterns.

A nice fireplace.

Something along the lines of this place yes?

https://youtu.be/9ggyBsXLEh8

Khajiit she is thinking she would like to keep a room in The Rosy Lion for the business travels and a nice home in Sentinel for the leisure.

Yours with paws
Santie Claws

Home is where the cat is.

kevlarto_ESO · September 2016

We don't know all the details yet, in other games you can have an options to let people visit your home in the rift because people spend hour building and decorating, hopefully they will let people visit so we can show off our awesome decorating skills, But we know so little yet on how decorating will work, we be able to show off armor sets, will it be free style decorations or like LOTRO where you have to have items that fit certain spaces, housing can be a lot of fun and a time sink, I guess we will know soon, I am being cautious since they did such a lame job with the so called "Barber Shop" Crossing my fingers.

clayandaudrey_ESO · September 2016

Wow wrote: »

Maybe bigger house has bigger functionality/feature than smaller one? That's my guess. Pretty sure you should be able to do more by owning a big castle than just owning a room in an Inn

The bigger houses in swtor just cost more. I see the same coming here.

Cherryblossom · September 2016

NoMoreChillies wrote: »

castles should be owned by guilds

hmmm Guild Castles in Cyrodiil, this would be good.

Soundwave · September 2016

Malmai wrote: »

Deathgiggle wrote: »

I was so excited to find out about housing and then someone mentioned a castle and I was immediately thinking that I'm gonna get one no matter the cost. Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank. If I spend 5k crowns on a nice house wouldn't you want people to see it?

I understand the reasoning behind the instancing, it's to prevent the landscape from being littered with houses and the possibility of ever running out of room. If that is the way it is released though, I'll probably just get a basic home for the extra storage and to park my toon when I'm bored.

RIP server ? I mean cmon the game runs very poorly imagine all the houses all the lag...

Houses probably would have its own server, the only way for houses not to have they own serve. Would be if everyone had separate different houses in the world. Now that would be laggy, but since players would buy/rent, u load into your house when u open. My only question, are players going have the ability to break in, if not what the point in a thieves guild anyways.

Thevampirenight · September 2016

Soundwave wrote: »

Malmai wrote: »

Deathgiggle wrote: »

I was so excited to find out about housing and then someone mentioned a castle and I was immediately thinking that I'm gonna get one no matter the cost. Then I googled it and found out the housing will be instanced like in EQ and my heart sank. If I spend 5k crowns on a nice house wouldn't you want people to see it?

I understand the reasoning behind the instancing, it's to prevent the landscape from being littered with houses and the possibility of ever running out of room. If that is the way it is released though, I'll probably just get a basic home for the extra storage and to park my toon when I'm bored.

RIP server ? I mean cmon the game runs very poorly imagine all the houses all the lag...

Houses probably would have its own server, the only way for houses not to have they own serve. Would be if everyone had separate different houses in the world. Now that would be laggy, but since players would buy/rent, u load into your house when u open. My only question, are players going have the ability to break in, if not what the point in a thieves guild anyways.

Its possible it will have its own server system, in order to handle it. Pretty much yes they will instance them, and add an invite option allowing maybe like 20 players at a time access to the house. They will most likely also allow you to set up where the tables and beds and everything goes I imagine these will be usable so you won;t have to emote to sit down, or lay down hopefully they will add coffin beds for vampires!