Player Housing

I'm the type of player that enjoys getting immersed in the game. As such, I am a big fan of player housing. The implementation in LotRO was pretty good, but felt like they abandoned it once they had it in place.

I read this write-up today on the direction that the developers of ArcheAge are taking with player housing and absolutely love a lot of these ideas.

Imagine a nice little Gaiscioch community set somewhere in Moonshade Highlands with each of our houses, a great hall and some community trading and crafting halls. Okay, it'd be huge, but still. How cool would that be?

Don't really care if I get my own house. However having our own guild Tavern in the middle of Moonshade would be pretty cool. Have a Giant statue of Fog in the center courtyard. Of course it would have its own wardstone and could be taken over by invasions and even enemy players. Would Bring a whole new level of open world PVP.

I think it would be tricky with Rift just because of the size of the landscape. Star Wars Galaxies had the best player housing of any game. I could hang anything cool I got up on the walls or create things like bars from crates and a board. However, SWG had a HUGE landscape. Instanced housing isn't too much fun. I actually think the fact that there are rift invasions would make player towns even more fun because you could defend your territory from attack.

I'm diggin on Wolfie's idea, has lots of possibilities...

Runes of Magic as done a wonderful job with player housing as how EQ2. I've spent many a happy hour in my houses redecorating and hanging out with friends.

Asheron's Call 1 had great player housing too. Only downside is the lack of player congregation once everyone had their own apartment, cottage, or villa. They would have to open a new zone just for housing in Rift. Probably an instanced version would be doable. Vigil knows I could use more storage!