I know, this has been hashed before, but I've always seen it in the community type concept, not like I'm suggesting. I would like to see personal houses that are like mini-guild halls in the same way that you can only see and access your own GH. Cost so much of whatever to build, have some upgrade options perhaps, have a home storage which is only accessible in your house (not via the Xunlai), maybe a few more tidbits.
Interesting thought... you would be able to see your other characters in the house as non-interactable NPCs, just for fun. This would also me a good place for "pet storage". Go home, select one of your pets, go adventuring.
Guests could be invited (limit three?), and would not have any access to any features (including storage) in your house. No access to merchants from the house, but maybe an armor closet and a hat-rack? (Hat rack could show what the Hat NPC has available for you, even if you can't get one from the house)...
No types of battles would be initiated from the house.
I would definitely NOT want to see the lag infested cities spawn up from other suggested housing concepts. This would be a private chalet in the setting of your choice, and could help solve many storage woes.
Personal houses.
MSecorsky
holababe
I like the idea of having a storage house that's just for you because I feel that Storage just isn't large enough.
DeNiro
/signed
Love the idea of an armor closet, hate the fact my inventory pilles up when I have multiple armors.
Love the idea of an armor closet, hate the fact my inventory pilles up when I have multiple armors.
Chaos Herald
/signed.
Another cool thing would be being able to switch characters in your house without logging out.
Another cool thing would be being able to switch characters in your house without logging out.
gameshoes3003
/signed
Maybe your characters should be in the house (of course not the one you're using since you're controlling him/her), but it'd be cool just to see yoru own characters walk around.
Maybe your characters should be in the house (of course not the one you're using since you're controlling him/her), but it'd be cool just to see yoru own characters walk around.
Commander Ryker
Yes! Love the original post and Chaos' addition. Please anet, if you can do this, it would be awesome.
Elisa
/signed
I suggested something exactly like this on the guild-hall.net forums a year and some ago, but you know the PvP-only elitists there... shot it down completely "ANET SHOULD FOCUS ON PVP ALONE YOU CAREBEAR NOOB" etc. etc.
I would LOVE this... make it an enterable house somewhere up against the Shiverpeaks. Make it so you can go outside as well and look out on some fields with the mountains in the distance and your pets in the fields outside (if you have any). This should be possible as it won't be a graphic-heavy or large area, it should be easier on the system to make it fully enterable.
I suggested something exactly like this on the guild-hall.net forums a year and some ago, but you know the PvP-only elitists there... shot it down completely "ANET SHOULD FOCUS ON PVP ALONE YOU CAREBEAR NOOB" etc. etc.
I would LOVE this... make it an enterable house somewhere up against the Shiverpeaks. Make it so you can go outside as well and look out on some fields with the mountains in the distance and your pets in the fields outside (if you have any). This should be possible as it won't be a graphic-heavy or large area, it should be easier on the system to make it fully enterable.
MSecorsky
I would envision this as something you would map into, like the Guild Halls. However, you could choose, perhaps, a Shiverpeaks setting.
What would be even cooler would be a pen area where your character could see all the pets he/she's tamed frolicing together. There should be a one-per-type pet limitation however.
What would be even cooler would be a pen area where your character could see all the pets he/she's tamed frolicing together. There should be a one-per-type pet limitation however.
bart
Sounds like a nice idea. good money sinker too. Would love to see it implpemented. I just hope the flamers that come with their "I DON"T WANT GW TO BE LIKE EQ" torches will run past this thread.
onerabbit
would be a good money sink too..if u had 2 buy the houses..and there was different types..from cheap scaby 1's to nice expensive ones :P
gameshoes3003
I would like a house setting like the one from Uru (of the Myst series) since the house would most likely be placed on the battle isles.
Skyy High
If and only if they were made like Guild Halls would I even see this as being possible. Also, they would probably have to be very expensive, because every player getting a house = massive surge in information needed to be stored on the servers.
Winterclaw
/signed only if I can get a cute pair of hero twins (one a monk, the other an el) to be maids. 
I'd also like it if it had extra storage for weapons, armor, dye, mats, etc. I'd be like xunlai but because you are paying more, you should get a ton more storage room.
I'd also like it if it had extra storage for weapons, armor, dye, mats, etc. I'd be like xunlai but because you are paying more, you should get a ton more storage room.
Emik
If it's been hashed before why do you open a new thread?
Subject has been brought up on numerous occasions only to be resulting in 'pointless addition'
/notsigned
Subject has been brought up on numerous occasions only to be resulting in 'pointless addition'
/notsigned
MegaMouse
Good idea this could solve the "log out so you can log in as another character" problem. But have it so that the house is in the hall of the guild you belong too.
/SIGNED
Mega Mouse
/SIGNED
Mega Mouse
Velentine Hath
/signed
It would also be nice to have NPC's Such as a Liquor Vendor and be able to throw parties at your house :3
It would also be nice to have NPC's Such as a Liquor Vendor and be able to throw parties at your house :3
cthulhu reborn
Well, of course it would mean more info to be stored for GW....so, why not bring out a PvE/rpg expansion pack. PvP players can simply not buy it and the PvE fans can get all kinds of extra's to enhance their game experience. I'm sure the forums contain enough ideas to come up with enough stuff to make such an expansion. It is as much a social gathering as a game and GW should keep that in mind if they want people to keep playing regularly I think.
I already finished NF with 8 characters out of the 10 I play and the other 2 are progressing nicely. I will be done with that soon and then it's another wait for the next one.
Surely there can be some things like in game games at the guild halls and other things like these that can keep you busy and motivated in between the new story lines...
I already finished NF with 8 characters out of the 10 I play and the other 2 are progressing nicely. I will be done with that soon and then it's another wait for the next one.
Surely there can be some things like in game games at the guild halls and other things like these that can keep you busy and motivated in between the new story lines...
Kaida the Heartless
I'd pay a small chunk of real change to snag a (serial) key to unlock a storage house for myself.
I don't know about all the "character's walking around/pets frolicing in the meadows" ideas, even though they are pretty neat. Just seems... load intensive for the servers, granted my knowledge of such things is limited.
I would like an armor closet and bigger storage though! Secret doors too! My house needs secret doors!
I don't know about all the "character's walking around/pets frolicing in the meadows" ideas, even though they are pretty neat. Just seems... load intensive for the servers, granted my knowledge of such things is limited.
I would like an armor closet and bigger storage though! Secret doors too! My house needs secret doors!
Trophy Hunter
/Signed
The idea is nice,
plus we would be able to see new titles there (huge money sink).
Pool -> swimmer title ->paying instructor to get trained
Chef's corner -> Luxury title -> paying sef to make hight end meals
Party Area ->Celebrity title -> paying huge amount to organize one
and more (i think it reminds me of sims but that was a war against clock)
The idea is nice,
plus we would be able to see new titles there (huge money sink).
Pool -> swimmer title ->paying instructor to get trained
Chef's corner -> Luxury title -> paying sef to make hight end meals
Party Area ->Celebrity title -> paying huge amount to organize one
and more (i think it reminds me of sims but that was a war against clock)
Aegeroth
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/Signed
The idea is nice, plus we would be able to see new titles there (huge money sink). Pool -> swimmer title ->paying instructor to get trained Chef's corner -> Luxury title -> paying sef to make hight end meals Party Area ->Celebrity title -> paying huge amount to organize one and more (i think it reminds me of sims but that was a war against clock) |
No more pointless Titles please.
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Now i cant sign or not sign this, it sounds like a nice idea, however im against PoHs in Guild Wars as we are on-the-go Heroes saving Tyria. But, again its a cool idea. And i also sometimes make pointless little additions.
So i dunno count me as
/wouldsignificould
But ill always stick to no PoHs in Guild Wars. It just doesnt seem right.
Belleal
I agree with all my heart to this idea.
Sadly, many players out there are indeed strongly PvP focused and find such ideas to be pointless and own houses are almost 100% RPG add-on. Still I do hope all players will see the beauty of this idea regardless of their core player visions.
/signed
Sadly, many players out there are indeed strongly PvP focused and find such ideas to be pointless and own houses are almost 100% RPG add-on. Still I do hope all players will see the beauty of this idea regardless of their core player visions.
/signed
Kaida the Heartless
I'm almost entirely a pvper yet I stand behind an idea of this sort.
PvPer's like lots of shiny armors too, ya'know!
PvPer's like lots of shiny armors too, ya'know!
Jedimagician
/signed.. like idea of having more than one pet and armor closet
mips
nice idea...
/signed
make the houses visitable(?) for guildies (through guildhall) and friends...
don't care about all the pet stuff but its a nice idea. Visiting should be easy - to make it worth building a great place to show off...
perfectly acceptable as a PvE extension pack or something but then there will have to be some pretty cool features... (to make it worth the money). Major storage advantages by buying house will do for me
work together with EA and create a GuildWars/SIMS co-production (just kidding, just kidding... please don't make it anything sims-like)
/signed
make the houses visitable(?) for guildies (through guildhall) and friends...
don't care about all the pet stuff but its a nice idea. Visiting should be easy - to make it worth building a great place to show off...
perfectly acceptable as a PvE extension pack or something but then there will have to be some pretty cool features... (to make it worth the money). Major storage advantages by buying house will do for me
- extra storage (not accesable through agents)
- armor closets
- key racks?
- importable paintings and decorations?
(like maybe create paintings from the screens you took ingame?) - they should/could have implemented the material storage as a seperate barn next to the house... (and thus make it more exclusive)
- all players character present in- around house in some way
work together with EA and create a GuildWars/SIMS co-production (just kidding, just kidding... please don't make it anything sims-like)
awqaw
/signed
*sigh*.....
why wasn't my idea of palyer owned houses convinving enough?
*sigh*.....
why wasn't my idea of palyer owned houses convinving enough?
mips
lol....
and just thought about it some more... what I think would be nice is to allow players buying houses only via guilds..
make a portal at the guildhall where players can enter the guild-village or attach a special area to the guildhall (as an investment for the guildhall?). All houses in similar styles as the guildhall off-course... guildies can walk through town and visit houses... friends can only beam to/visit your house
Players would need to join a guild to be able to buy a house, this way stimulating the whole "it's a game about guilds" idea...
offcourse when someone gets kicked from guild all should be kept and accessable again when joining other guild (who has expanded their guildhall with such an area) making the whole guild part more important again...
/signed_again
and just thought about it some more... what I think would be nice is to allow players buying houses only via guilds..
make a portal at the guildhall where players can enter the guild-village or attach a special area to the guildhall (as an investment for the guildhall?). All houses in similar styles as the guildhall off-course... guildies can walk through town and visit houses... friends can only beam to/visit your house
Players would need to join a guild to be able to buy a house, this way stimulating the whole "it's a game about guilds" idea...
offcourse when someone gets kicked from guild all should be kept and accessable again when joining other guild (who has expanded their guildhall with such an area) making the whole guild part more important again...
/signed_again
Blackstream
/signed
But not because most of the comments. Well, look out of the monitor. Can You buy Yourself a Ele/Mes maid for the house? Didn't think so.
I sign it because today, most of the people try to run from the reality, pledging into the internet/virtual reality. In most cases, they cannot change their life rapidly. In the VR - they can. Of course, there are different rules and conditions. But apart from that - still it is possible. Who, in real life, could become Ele Nuker or Necro Ranger?
And because of that fact, people would very like to have their own place. So that everytime they log out - they wouldn't be out of the game, but simply - sleeping in the house or whatever similar to it. Also, with sort of simplified messaging system. Ex. I got Bruce Willis on the friend list. When he's not logged in - cannot send him a message. So good idea would be to make a queue for ex. 20 messages, which would wait for a player to log in. Left "in a house".
If You do not believe in it - just think a while - why the heck do games alike SIMS gather milions of players?
regards
Blackstream
But not because most of the comments. Well, look out of the monitor. Can You buy Yourself a Ele/Mes maid for the house? Didn't think so.
I sign it because today, most of the people try to run from the reality, pledging into the internet/virtual reality. In most cases, they cannot change their life rapidly. In the VR - they can. Of course, there are different rules and conditions. But apart from that - still it is possible. Who, in real life, could become Ele Nuker or Necro Ranger?
And because of that fact, people would very like to have their own place. So that everytime they log out - they wouldn't be out of the game, but simply - sleeping in the house or whatever similar to it. Also, with sort of simplified messaging system. Ex. I got Bruce Willis on the friend list. When he's not logged in - cannot send him a message. So good idea would be to make a queue for ex. 20 messages, which would wait for a player to log in. Left "in a house".
If You do not believe in it - just think a while - why the heck do games alike SIMS gather milions of players?
regards
Blackstream
DamFiNo
/signed
I think this would be excellent addition to game.
I think this would be excellent addition to game.
MegaMouse
Reading through this post gave me another idea to add. If one player cannot afford a house on his own, let 2 or more pool their resources together to get a multi room house. This way some players will not feel left out due to lack of gold. Another thing' on server bandwidth. If it is implemented so that the houses are on a seperate server from the rest, with each account possibly having a small tag code attached to it to denote whether it has a house or not will keep from having bandwidth issues. Giving the Homes a seperate server will free up the servers in the guild halls and not puit an undue strain on the rest of the servers. Have it set up so that in the guild hall you warp to a community for each Guild with several types of homes. The unoccupied ones should have a sign saying so.
Mega Mouse
Mega Mouse
Ralli Pemirl
/not signed
I'm a girl and I think houses are silly. A few extra slots are all we really need.
Players who want lots of space could buy a new account with 4 bank characters. It's like having a house with four rooms. That way, Anet would make more money, which it deserves.
Maybe a mail system could be more doable and useful, even though it's really not necessary either. If Anet incorporated one, NPCs could sell expensive fancy boxes for us to stick in our guild halls. And give us the option of free generic boxes in outposts. We could mail items to bank characters or low char friends we don't want to hunt down but we know could make use of our junk.
I'm a girl and I think houses are silly. A few extra slots are all we really need.
Players who want lots of space could buy a new account with 4 bank characters. It's like having a house with four rooms. That way, Anet would make more money, which it deserves.
Maybe a mail system could be more doable and useful, even though it's really not necessary either. If Anet incorporated one, NPCs could sell expensive fancy boxes for us to stick in our guild halls. And give us the option of free generic boxes in outposts. We could mail items to bank characters or low char friends we don't want to hunt down but we know could make use of our junk.
Arcane De Farad
/notsigned
Dont like things what other mmo have. If you wanna add some special storage place just do "private" chest/closet in Guildhall.
Dont like things what other mmo have. If you wanna add some special storage place just do "private" chest/closet in Guildhall.
Cataclysm
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/not signed
I'm a girl and I think houses are silly. A few extra slots are all we really need. Players who want lots of space could buy a new account with 4 bank characters. It's like having a house with four rooms. That way, Anet would make more money, which it deserves. Maybe a mail system could be more doable and useful, even though it's really not necessary either. If Anet incorporated one, NPCs could sell expensive fancy boxes for us to stick in our guild halls. And give us the option of free generic boxes in outposts. We could mail items to bank characters or low char friends we don't want to hunt down but we know could make use of our junk. |
The reason people want houses is so they can store their stuff... (Like the bajillions of weapons and upgrades I carry around, ready to slap together an amazing ax or sword as soon as a 15^50 inscription drops, my 3 different melee weaps, my 4 different shields, and all my Gwen stuff, 3 different scar pattern headgear, a weapon and offhand for each school of Necromancy, 3 pairs of daggers, a whole nother suit of armor for my 55 ritualist and the 3 sets of offhands and weapons, 3 different bows, numerous runes, golds, purples, and unsold greens, many dyes, and several inscriptions, various holiday items and assorted alcohols.)
And to switch chars w/o logging out. I dont mind logging out but I do mind not having any room on my chars to do anything.
/kind of signed
I want storage. If it means a house, so much the better.
Mr Slashalot
/signed
maybe some really hard and long quests that reward us in house items that might keep us a little busy
maybe some really hard and long quests that reward us in house items that might keep us a little busy
Teger
/signed for any sort of storage...tbh, I would be fine if they just made the existing storage a 5x30 space...150 slots should be enough for anyone.
broodijzer
/signed
would be neat.
would be neat.
Jaythen Tyradel
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Good idea this could solve the "log out so you can log in as another character" problem. But have it so that the house is in the hall of the guild you belong too.
/SIGNED Mega Mouse |
/signed
however, the "log out to log in to a new character" gave me an idea.
When you log in, instead of seeing your character standing like a statue waiting to be selected, you are taken to your characters "house".
All you characters would be shown like the original selection screen, but instead they may do simple npc stuff such as appear to talk to your other characters, laugh, sit, play rock paper scissors, dance, or just aimelssly wander.
IF tied to a guild/guild hall, you would see the character wandering and interacting with other random players characters. Kinda make you guild feel alive if others are not online.
Now, back to the log in and out of changing characters, yo go back to your house/guild hall walk up to your character and select to change to them.
Having a house like the SIMS games..um..not sure if I want to go that far in regards to decorations and extras to buy....
What say you?
Aeon_Xin
The whole point of switching characters is to unload active from memory and load another one. You people are talking about doing it on the fly and that's alot of work, in and of itself.
I would like a house with extra storage as long as it's not xunlai, why are we defending whole nations of people for if we get zero out of it aside from the satisfaction of doing it? There's certainly no ultimate treasure, aside from new skins of weapons.
The mini pet idea is a bit silly.
It wouldn't lag servers, because you'd in effect be offline. You wouldn't have to communicate location or anything to server and back, nothing to kill, nothing to fight/glitch/exploit. Just inventory changes and Whisper/guild chat
As far as server storage, it wouldn't be any different than what's in Guild HAlls right now, except for private storage.
I think it should be per character though. Greater gold sink. Allow you to see each varying type of Residence.
Each character can buy up to 3 trunks, genereic hidden storage.
Include a # of hat racks and weapon racks like we see around the maps, plus no one wants to store their helmet with the rest of their smelly sweaty armor.
Mat/Dye storage Closet.
If it's set to invite friends, everything in house is coded to only me, all visitors can do is hover over items like in the field. Reserved for RandomPlayerX. and with no treasure sparklies, that'd be annoying.
Alot of people would love a room for mounting their treasures, a Charr Head sticking out of the wall on a Plaque..heh
I would like a house with extra storage as long as it's not xunlai, why are we defending whole nations of people for if we get zero out of it aside from the satisfaction of doing it? There's certainly no ultimate treasure, aside from new skins of weapons.
The mini pet idea is a bit silly.
It wouldn't lag servers, because you'd in effect be offline. You wouldn't have to communicate location or anything to server and back, nothing to kill, nothing to fight/glitch/exploit. Just inventory changes and Whisper/guild chat
As far as server storage, it wouldn't be any different than what's in Guild HAlls right now, except for private storage.
I think it should be per character though. Greater gold sink. Allow you to see each varying type of Residence.
Each character can buy up to 3 trunks, genereic hidden storage.
Include a # of hat racks and weapon racks like we see around the maps, plus no one wants to store their helmet with the rest of their smelly sweaty armor.
Mat/Dye storage Closet.
If it's set to invite friends, everything in house is coded to only me, all visitors can do is hover over items like in the field. Reserved for RandomPlayerX. and with no treasure sparklies, that'd be annoying.
Alot of people would love a room for mounting their treasures, a Charr Head sticking out of the wall on a Plaque..heh
Bob B
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maraxusofk
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Well, of course it would mean more info to be stored for GW....so, why not bring out a PvE/rpg expansion pack. PvP players can simply not buy it and the PvE fans can get all kinds of extra's to enhance their game experience. I'm sure the forums contain enough ideas to come up with enough stuff to make such an expansion. It is as much a social gathering as a game and GW should keep that in mind if they want people to keep playing regularly I think.
I already finished NF with 8 characters out of the 10 I play and the other 2 are progressing nicely. I will be done with that soon and then it's another wait for the next one. Surely there can be some things like in game games at the guild halls and other things like these that can keep you busy and motivated in between the new story lines... |
/hella signed
seraphite86
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/not signed
I'm a girl and I think houses are silly. A few extra slots are all we really need. |