I always felt that LOTRO had the right mindset on this kind of stuff. Their housing system was top-notch. Unlike most games with housing, you didn't have to be invited and you didn't just disappear to that character's seemingly doorless house in the mysterious dimension that is their place of living (looking at you Champions Online) when you were. There were physical neighborhoods anyone could enter. If the character didn't pay rent, they were evicted and their house was up for sale. After long enough waiting, our guild almost all had houses in the same neighborhood and our guild hall was right in the center. On slow sundays when no one felt like adventuring or doing dungeons, we could spend the entire day sitting in our little mine neighborhood (it was an all-dwarf guild) smoking and joking.
I specifically remember a lot of meetings were at my house before we got our hall because it had a stream in front of it and the bridge made it look really official... plus I was the nerd who actually cared about in-game housing and it was nicely furnished with painted walls and floors. Actually, I'm going to go on a rant about that. Everyone's house looked like a stone cell. I know we were dwarves and we lived under a mountain, but that doesn't mean we're averse to carpeting or tables or chairs. I had rich red walls and a hardwood floor and a huge bed and plenty of chairs and paintings and stuff. If I enter any of your houses IC when this system gets implemented and it's just a barren room where you stand idly, Uther will say something. Come on, guys, get with the program.
I haven't been following the housing system on FFXIV much, but from what I've seen they took a similar approach, which is very exciting to me.
Anyways, as far as land claiming: if FFXIV implements a similar neighborhood system to the one LOTRO has, the problem will be solved almost entirely.
I specifically remember a lot of meetings were at my house before we got our hall because it had a stream in front of it and the bridge made it look really official... plus I was the nerd who actually cared about in-game housing and it was nicely furnished with painted walls and floors. Actually, I'm going to go on a rant about that. Everyone's house looked like a stone cell. I know we were dwarves and we lived under a mountain, but that doesn't mean we're averse to carpeting or tables or chairs. I had rich red walls and a hardwood floor and a huge bed and plenty of chairs and paintings and stuff. If I enter any of your houses IC when this system gets implemented and it's just a barren room where you stand idly, Uther will say something. Come on, guys, get with the program.
I haven't been following the housing system on FFXIV much, but from what I've seen they took a similar approach, which is very exciting to me.
Anyways, as far as land claiming: if FFXIV implements a similar neighborhood system to the one LOTRO has, the problem will be solved almost entirely.
