World Housing (ganon Approved)

I've been proposing this solution since 2015

 

Wait I thought they were the same person.

 

I an assure you im not a fuzzy red blob

 

Are you sure?

 

I'm sure

 

5 islands + a system. The system is the problem I have.

 

But it's isn't the ct that works on these kind of stuff (except builders for the islands) we have a coding team for a reason (code refactor)

 

Yeah, and they are all working on Dern

 

The coders?

 

Hey guys, I don't usually like commenting in suggestions but I have a few things to say.

The issue with housing isn't technical - we can make private spaces for each player (or group of players) very easily (war servers are an example of a very simple form of this). Instead of focusing on how this could be implemented, focus on why this should be implemented. How does this fit into player progression? What's the point of housing? How are houses built? What can you put into houses? Why is this a fun mechanic beyond "having a house"? What other fun mechanics could be connected to it?

Answering these questions is much more productive than trying to work through the technical challenges - let us worry about that, you don't know what we can do. I'm not saying answering these questions will get this feature added (I have no bearing on gameplay features), but when coming up with ideas these are questions you should be asking yourselves. From a game design perspective, why is this something that should be in the game? How does it add value to the game or community at large?

Something to think about for the future.

A quick note - I was debating whether to post this as I really don't want to give you guys the wrong idea - my post is no indication for whether anything of this nature is planned as I'm not privvy to that information. I just make sure the servers stay up. All I want is everyone to get a bit better at game design :)

 

Oh, houses are completely useless. They give nothing in terms of gameplay or player progression.
I just got sick of seeing people automatically rule out housing threads because "it's not possible code wise" "it will lag to much" and things like that.

 

I think that it's a bit silly to dismiss something like that. There are plenty of MMOs that have housing or related, there must be something there. Don't be so dismissive :)

And now anyone dismissing this because of technical reason knows otherwise.

 

It will be nice if we reach could have our permission house but it's still useless, it's more fun to find an existing build in the map to claim as your own

 

What a splendid idea. Usually housing threads are horrid, but this one is very nice. Minimizing the space by having everyone on the same island is great, but I fear it may become laggy with everyone walking and hopping around even if they are invisible.

 

Unlocked on OPs request

 

Ayo, I brought this suggestion back so y'all can learn how housing can be done around here.

 

Bump

 

the idea behind player housing is the customization you can bring to your own island in this case. i guess you could gather materials from the gathering professions and add a builder profession to create furniture and other decorative items with more recipes hidden across the world/ in dungeon shops/ quest rewards

 

Tbh I wrote this before progressions were a thing

 

Truth.
I'm gonna be completely honest, this sounds like a decent idea. It could improve the lagfest of WC1