World Bdo-esque Housing Mechanics Are Possible!

I know housing has been suggested quite a lot with no mention of its' feasibility, but there's a pretty easy solution that I haven't seen anyone address. (ba-dum-tshh)..

Houses could be instanced on a separate server, with 1000 or some odd copies of each location floating in space. Day/night cycle would sync with the main server, and after purchasing a house from a sign outside (which could also be used to visit friends' houses, maybe with a public index/leaderboard/random house feature too) if you walk in the front door you get sent to another server holding whatever copy of the house you're visiting and teleported into it. Once inside players could place furniture they had bought or crafted, or trophies collected throughout the world.

Maybe you could give other people build access to your home (or parts of it). There could also be guild halls, possibly as a cash shop item, where build perm could be given out on a by-room basis. If a player leaves a guild or loses build permission whatever furniture they placed will get sent back to them.

I suppose the servers holding houses could have a separate texture pack that had all of the furniture/building textures, and houses could have a partial reconstruction outside the windows.

 

You'd need a huge map, the wynncraft player base is huge and even if you give everyone a 16*16 square that becomes a huge area on the map

 

Yeah, it would be a really big map, but that's why it'd be on a different server. Also because houses can stack in 3d space it'd be somewhere from 30-40 times more efficient in terms of storage and memory than say a build server, which typically manage to operate profitably despite a much larger non-concurrent playerbase. It would be nowhere near the size of Wynncraft as a whole and it's not like it would ever have to hold more than a hundred people at a time.

 

Major flaw comes from the fact that weapons are usually blocks, imagine placing your mythics...
also that wynncraft is run in adventure mode...

 

I agree with this i would prefer probably using the multiverse plugin with a plot world maybe but that might cause issues. Also the resource pack can be modified so every texture is normal and not weapons because this has already been done before

 

mutiverse worlds and plots per player good way to kill the server

Nothing against the concept of housing, but the way this would be executed would be extremely flawed. Also, just "editing the resource pack" is no minor task.

 

ya i know its not a minor task but i said it has already been done and ya you are kinda right that multiverse plots would kill the server but i don't really know another way to do this "housing" thing

 

Houses would be useless and it doest fit with wynncraft's gameplay.

 

I mean
As far as I'm aware editing the models out would just consist of deleting the weapon models' folders and their textures
If you mean changing them so they are still part of the pack but not the default blocks... Yeah that's definitely harder

 

One thing I was thinking of were guild 'houses' which you could basically design and expand by levelling your guild... This is still one of the things that seems super cool to me since at this point there's no designated meeting spot for guilds...

 

Lmao nope

 

I don't think they would "kill the server" as you put it, if people didn't like it they wouldn't play it. Remember the nether and wizards being seperate games, they didn't "kill" the server did they?? Stop being so anti-housing, just becuase you don't like it doesn't mean others won't, even if this ain't the best housing thread I've seen.

 

nono I personally like housing I just feel this isn't the way to do it. Also I didn't mean kill the server as in no one would play it, I meant that it would be server sided issues.

 

ya im starting to agree with you on that and i do like the idea of housing its just so complicated of how it would work

 

Not to flex, but I've been playing this game for something like six years now and have been on the forums for half that time and never have I ever seen a more divisive suggestion than that of housing. Here's why;

It's funny, because housing in Wynn isn't, and has never really been the problem. Some people will never support housing, but for the most part people are actually for it; so what's the problem? The only suggestions that ever get implemented are the ones where everyone can come together and agree on both the idea and execution (See the new particles as an example of this). Even if everyone agreed that Wynn is in desperate need of housing and were willing to overlook the massive technical difficulties associated with the implementation of any personal/guild housing, everybody has their own ideas on how it should work. There are hundreds of housing suggestion threads (mostly garbage) which have wildly different ideas on how it should work. No implementation of housing is going to make a lot of people happy and any housing feature is going to disappoint and piss a lot of people off. If I were a dev looking for a new feature to add and I saw all the controversy around housing I would avoid it like the plague, not because it's a bad idea but because why would I ever waste my time on something that won't make all that many people happy?

The other thing is that there are just too many (again, mostly awful and thoughtless) threads about housing. People were tired of them before I even thought to join the forums and it's only gotten worse. Most people aren't even against housing anymore, they're against housing threads. I'm actually convinced that if the devs offered to add housing with the catch that they banned all housing threads every "anti-houser" would be completely and whole-heartedly on board.

Here's some advice, if you want housing in Wynn single threads aren't going to get anyone anywhere. What you need to do is get all (or a really large amount anyways) of the pro-housing people together in a discord or something, find a dev who can tell you the technical limitations of how a system like that could possibly work and create one singular idea you can all agree on. Once you've done all that and agreed on a good system, then post one single thread about it and redirect all future suggestions about housing to the mega thread.

Until then, please, please, pretty please stop posting housing threads. I'm not even against the idea, but I, along with a lot of others really don't want to see all these half baked housing threads anymore. It's a really complicated suggestion that can't be explored in the detail required for proper suggestion threads without writing an actual 10 000 word essay, so until a team of pro-housers write up your super ultra mega masterpiece thread with a single and cohesive idea where you explain in great detail why it would be good for the game beyond "Because it's cool," I'm out.

 

ok