(09-19-2014, 02:44 PM)Titor Wrote: Aside from that, most other games with housing are able to support player-owned houses easily. I really wished it would have been an instanced plot that you can invite friends or whatever over with (Maybe with an ACL), and I was REALLY hoping for the ability to expand/build on my house. Build new wings, build new floors, build new structures, whatever. That would have been really awesome. It would have been a great gilsink too since more expansions would be more money, and SE could always add new expansions on. Make the base house like 100k, then have 80 mil worth of different upgrades if they wanted to dump that much. IDK.I love your calculations, my brother and/or sister in math!
Have you seen how housing is done for EverQuest II? It's pretty amazing. You buy (and pay taxes on*) a plot that gives you a basic floorplan, but you're otherwise able to decorate however you want with a flexibility that puts FF's housing to shame.
Take a look at EQ2 Decorators, a website with housing decorator tips and showcases of nice setups. It's pretty amazing.
The fact that this is a ten year old game only makes FF's housing problems that much more painful.
*IIRC from my EQ2 days, you bought the plot (for a reasonable sum) and payed regular (reasonable) taxes on it to use it. Getting too much into arrears would lead to you losing the plot, with all your decorations going into escrow. This freed up housing owned by people who'd left the game without being a hassle for people who were simply taking a break.
