If they implement it.....I would at least like it to be like EQ2's housing for storage, selling, crafting and a place where we could make cool little do-dads for it as a side hobby on days that we don't feel like questing and all.

It's a nice little in-game perk if you ask me. People against it, take the game too seriously.

not having housing in an ESO game makes no sense

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Great idea, but I've not seen housing implemented in an mmorpg. How does it work? If you have 200,000 people - or even 50,000 people who all want their own home, where do you find room for that on the game map. Suddenly there are thousands of houses spring up here and there and everywhere ...

Unless it's like the Anchorage and when you go inside, you enter a unique cell or zone. Then it's just an issue of server space for all these houses.

Rourke wrote: »

If they implement it.....I would at least like it to be like EQ2's housing for storage, selling, crafting and a place where we could make cool little do-dads for it as a side hobby on days that we don't feel like questing and all.

It's a nice little in-game perk if you ask me. People against it, take the game too seriously.

I strongly agree with this. EQ2 housing was awesome. Log off you character in your home and sell some things. Buyers could also come to your home. Decorations were abundant and you could manually place almost everything. A great housing system.

All I gotta add is give us something to do with the housing other than socialize. I could do without housing but if its practical and has an advantage i am all for it. But if its just a place to put stuff i won't ever use it

I want it badly, but it can come in a later update. Should be in the first big expansion, in my opinion, though.

Implementation-wise, there's two ways its done. One is instanced housing, by far the most common, like EQ2 or Lotro, where there are a number of neighborhood types (in Lord of the Rings Online, there's a Shire neighborhood with hobbit-hole houses, an Elf neighborhood with classy elvish houses, a cave like dwarf area and a Man area). Maybe 100 houses in each neighborhood, and you can choose from hundreds of instanced copies, each with a name. So, you can tell your friends to come to 18 Chalk street in the Brandywine neighborhood in the shire. There are small houses, big houses, and huge houses meant for Guilds. Each house has some amount of storage, too. And of course, in each identical neighborhood, some houses are more in demand (like the shire one near the neighborhood bank--that one goes quick in each neighborhood.) There are typically some things like banks and provision stores in each neighborhood, too. When you buy a house, you usually get the ability to travel instantly to it. The fun thing is you can decorate them in and out with all kinds of stuff. A stable for your horses, maybe an instanced paddock, a wardrobe, a trophy case that allows you to display those hundreds of rare but useless loot items--those are the kinds of ideas bandied about to have, too.

The problem with instanced neighborhoods is that even in a crowded, popular game, they tend to be empty at any given time. There's also the problem of what happens to people that quit the game--when do their houses open up again for someone else to buy--too soon, you lose an incentive for them to ever come back--to slow, and you get even more of a ghost town vibe. Some try to counter the empty neighborhood by allowing things like your own crafting nodes in your house, but that's a double-edged sword as now the public crafting areas in the real game become less used, making the game itself feel less dynamic. For "server" based games, where some servers are already sparsely populated, it can make the game look more dead than it is if everyone is alone toiling away in their own house, and it's not exactly an MMO friendly idea to encourage such solitary behavior. It is tricky, though, to get the instanced housing area to be a dynamic place.

The "gold standard" housing in my opinion is NON instanced housing, either in designated areas throughout the actual game world or (harder to pull off) built pretty much anywhere in the landscape. Its very cool to be running through the woods and find a real player's cottage, complete with their war trophies in the front yard. Maybe (if the player allows) it's even open to entry so you can walk through it and see their decorations. Since it's in the world, it's easier to visit (not having to go into an instance and find a neighborhood at least) and just feels more... useable. This is what Ultima Online did, and people still talk about it as the best thing ever. A big world like ESO could maybe pull it off, but not sure how they'd handle the phasing.

I'd like to see it done that way (non-instanced) myself--non-instanced designated housing areas near cities would work well. And the option for super, super expensive ones that could be added "anywhere" in the landscape would be an awesome goal for the uber player to work for.

MaxBat wrote: »

Great idea, but I've not seen housing implemented in an mmorpg. How does it work? If you have 200,000 people - or even 50,000 people who all want their own home, where do you find room for that on the game map. Suddenly there are thousands of houses spring up here and there and everywhere ...

Unless it's like the Anchorage and when you go inside, you enter a unique cell or zone. Then it's just an issue of server space for all these houses.

The only game I have ever played that had housing, in fact whole towns/cities built on the landscape and not instanced was Starwars Galaxies. This was amazing but an entirely different type of MMO.

Housing in ESO, if/when it is introduced would most likely be instanced. Either a zone where there is a small village/town that people choose the house they want or it may be just a door in an existing town that you click on to enter your home.

It isn't confirmed whether this will happen. I highly doubt it, but who knows.

It would be entirely viable if they did it similar to STO where you invited someone onto your bridge. That would be the only way to avoid the thousands of houses cluttering up the game world - it only exists in an instanced location that you have to be invited to.

I have very fond memories of the housing in SWG, I miss being able to walk around a player town / city and look at their works of art and decoration, I would love to see something along those lines implemented again. I'm not really sure how it would be done though.

I have very fond memories of SWG and EQ2's housing systems. Both had their perks. Oddly enough, can't say that I'm a fan of Skyrim's housing system. Not enough customization. I have the same house everyone else does with the table and crafting tables in the exact same spots. Until I fill a trough full of gems or a castle full of cheese wheels, but still. Would absolutely love an empty house and a few furniture items to place myself.

It may or may not be odd that player housing is a priority on my list when choosing an MMO.

housing and crime should have been in the game at release imo