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robonauticus
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Just wondering if plans for housing will be in the future. Always love the idea of having my own place in a game, were I can place all my loot and trophy's from beasties that I slay.
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They just need to be careful to not make it with benefits that in the end players will feel obliged to spend money on a house.
Small house, 500z, looks like the interiors of the few small buildings in naverwinter, player load 5
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Large Home, 800-1000z, similar to appearance as a small house but larger interior, player load 10
Ocean Side Villa, 1500z+, wide open yard, large open air building in the middle, player load 20
Mercenary Barracks, 1500+, wide open yard, small central bunk house, player load 20, includes "strawmen" that can be attacked for practice.
Small Palace, 2000+, huge open yard, stawmen to the side for the "house guards", large open air central palace.
all these structures would have access to mail and bank.
In Champs, these are called "Hideouts" and along with bank access, there is an account bank for sharing items across all your characters.
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City of Heroes could not handle the persistent instances that player housing would have generated, but we did have Supergroup Bases (guild halls), which were lots of fun to design. I would love to see something like this in NW as well, especially because base design adds yet another vast dimension of time-sink to the game. (Different strokes for different folks, I love costume and base design even more than combat! Now if I could only get XP for costume design...)
Cool thanks! I didn't know that. I'll check them out this weekend.
They'll probably add yet ANOTHER currency in the game, that lets you accrue points to expand the base or put nifty "trophies" and stuff on the wall. But it will be something fairly fast and cheap. Then of course, there will be stuff in the Zen market to make your base even prettier or a bit more unique.
It will probably come out six to nine months post-release and it will be, I predict, incredibly underwhelming.
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Every character we make in a fantasy game, Is THE Hero!
Time and again, in our favorite books and stories, the great heros, most of the time, had fabulous, interesting, breath taking or inspiring homes. Better part of a chapter is written describing in great detail the homes that the heroes have.
If neverwinter follows this same ideology for the characters, THE hero/s, then the homes needed should be just as fabulous, interesting, breath taking or inspiring, or at least have the potential to be.
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Player housing in CO and STO are not persistent zones. Not even the SuperGroup bases in Cith or Heroes were persistent. They fire up when a player zones in. And they despawn a set about of time after the last player leave. If you are logged out in such a map, you are booted to the last persistance zone you came from.
By "persistent" (and here I'm using the term the devs used when they talked about adjusting the Foundry for player housing) I think the devs mean you would be able to keep items in your house, and move things around, and they'd be where you last put them (rather than the house resetting every time you leave and things disappearing etc, which would suck).
Ideally someone who actually worked at Paragon could explain it better, because being players, we only got a little bit of the story. But that's what I remember being told, anyway.
I'm willing to say that since the Foundry is in place the Devs will work more on the "story" of Neverwinter then on off-shoot quest lines.
I can actually see the Foundry becoming the replacement for developers to develop side-story quest. Why spend salary/hourly for a person to write up a quest to dig in <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font> for a key when a player can do that.
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that would be awesome.
dang it jetah...you just ruined my first foundry quest spilling the beans like that!!
I dislike instanced housing (such as Everquest 2). Although you could open your home to the public, most people would never know if you had a cool home or not. You were simply one of many names on a door. The exception to this was when they started the housing ratings and advertisements, then some exceptional instanced homes got noticed and more visitors (not unlike how the Foundry system will work here actually).
I somewhat dislike open-world housing (such as Ultima Online and Vanguard). This system either makes open-world areas feel too crowded (UO) or way too big (VG). Don't get me wrong, I love a huge game world but not housing zones that take hours to cross.
I like instanced neighborhoods (such as Lord of the Rings Online). This felt like a good mix between instanced and open-world systems. Each neighborhood had a small collection of small, medium, and large homes. You could stroll through the area and see what players had put on their front lawns and such. There are even mail boxes and a community area (ripe for RPers).
Now the city of Neverwinter, in its current state, would not be very ideal for neighborhood housing. I'd still like to see it somewhere in the game world though.
tl;dr --- instanced and open-world housing = bad ::: instanced neighborhood housing = good
From developer and community team comments, I get the impression that they are indeed hoping for the vast majority of mission-doing to be foundry content. Neverwinter Nights showed that a community can continue to generate content at a very fast pace, long after the developers have shipped the product as "finished". Now, because NW is an MMO (NWN was not), we will continue to see developer presence, but it won't necessarily be on lots of mission content.
Whether or not that actually plays out, we shall see.
sorry to derail the thread.
I too would like to see Player Housing. The problem is how to go about it. Do you have 1 door that phases/ports you to 'your' house. do you use a zone portal that allows players to find plots of their choosing. do you phase an area similar to WoWs' Sunsong Ranch.
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