Would be nice, but I'm not sure if ZoS are capable of making copies of your character models (with their hairstyle and other customization, armour and costume, etc) to stand around in houses. I know SWTOR for example allows you to place your companions, which show up as a basic holographic image if you're on a character that doesn't have them, and as their actual customized companions if your character does have them... but that's a different system entirely.
Perhaps the closest we could get would be if they added more NPCs as furnishings. Just like the banker, merchant and fence, they could add more NPC 'furnishings' like a chef, a housecarl, a bard, maybe some guards... SWTOR does have dancers, sith sorcerers and warriors, bounty hunters, etc NPC models as placeable furnishings which really help liven up the space - especially some of the giant homes which look painfully empty sometimes.
They could even make them crown-exclusive (who are we kidding, they would of course, just as they made the music boxes crown store only) if they want to rationalize the developing cost with some profit. We could have:
- A mercenary bunde with a housecarl, some guard NPCs in armor, and archers we could place on walls and in the courtyard.
- A personnel bundle with a chef, a brewer, a stablemaster and a maid (I'll leave the argonian jokes to your imagination )
- An entertainer bundle with a bard, a jester, a fire-breather, sword-swallower and maybe a painter.
- A craftsman bundle with a blacksmith, a woodworker, clothier, an alchemist, etc.
This sounds good at first glance, but the more thought that is applied, the more the mechanics of the operation get muddy.
OK, they are not going to allow you to be logged into two characters at once, too many ways for that to exploited. So this alt can't be just one of our characters with a script overlayed.
So, they would have to make a "copy" of the alt, only with no inventory. No inventory would mean no clothes, so how would we apply costumes to the Alt? Then, there is the question of when is the copy made and is it ever updated? Who makes this copy and can it be instanced into more than one home. If a copy is updated, do all copies of the same character get updated and what would the mechanism be for that. How much of an impact would this have on the save file size? What local control, if any, could be provided to change the costume or appearance? I am not saying that these things are impossible, but your kind of wanting to add Sims functionality to an MMORPG.
This technically a bit more daunting than it might appear on the surface. I am also starting think about all the bugs that could appear from this.
Has any MMO ever done something like this?
It would be better if ZOS would just allow us to acquire servants and NPCs of various professions that we could add to our houses. Give them an idle script that moves them around and do something so they are not static. By better I mean, a system that has a snowball's chance of being implimented.
Besides, we still can't have a dog in our house that moves. I think that might be the first step before we could ask for anything else.
Having alts as home items was the main thing I wanted for housing. I wanted to be able to move inventory to and from each alt in the same way that the crown store banker is used.
I'd like it if that was possible. Parking a character at a house works, but when you log on with another character, they should still be there. Asleep, maybe, but at least present.wishlist14 wrote: »I voted no because if you want your alts in any of your houses you can make them port to said house and just park them there. You cannot log into more than one character at a time anyway.
SantieClaws wrote: »This was taken a while ago – before Jennet and Alderman joined the family.
But it gives you an idea of what we hope one day might be possible yes.
Yours with paws
Santie Claws
Claws family photo