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Is there anyway yet to purchase a house for yourself or your guild?

If they do implement it I hope they spend a lot of time on coming up with the best possible soloution. They should use swg as an example on how NOT to implement player housing. The way they have housing-zones in daoc is great but would it really work for lotr and middle earth? Personally I think not. The "best" way would be to m design the housing like in swg. BUT the zones are too small for that and even if they weren't, I believe, it would be hard to implement and still be true to the lotr-world. And what I love the most about this game is that they seem to put tolkiens lotr first and then they create their game around that. In opposite to swg where they created a ****** game in a start-wars costume with no soul. All in all, I hope they don't implement player housing becuase I think it would be hard to implement and still keep the high standard they have right now.

I remember reading that they were planning to do housing more like DOAC where they would have instanced zones for housing. I haven't heard any specifics, so we'll just have to see.

Housing would be nice but I don't know that it's essential. They had it in SWG and DAoC but when I first started in EQ housing was unheard of. I see housing as yet one more place to pile useless crap I might or might not ever use but can't seem to get rid of cause the minute I do I'll need it. Hell, I don't need housing, I have a wife for that :)

Thats what I remember also, they would have instanced streets and such for housing. ETA: Who knows



I have to disagree some here with this. While there isn't TRUE PvP in the game, you can still play vs other players, they just take control of monsters to fight you. Right now it isn't that big really, because it is limited to one zone level 40+ for freeps to get into, but soon as more people hit cap they'll play on freeps more and creeps can kill them.

and where shall we put the 1000000 million cottages? i hope you have a really good real estate agent or else you'll end up with a cottage in Angmar
seriously though other then for extra storage this game has no need for player housing, and ill be slapped, but we dont even have a need for kinship halls.

yes i agree they are nice features but it's just not necessarry. and since it does sound like they are implementing housing i do hope its ONE house thats a private instance for the individual.

*edit* i just wanted to add...i dont even clean my own house, like i want to work on keeping a virtual house clean

Edited, Jun 19th 2007 6:46pm by Dyadem

Nope. I cant see the point of it either.

If i wanted to have a house, I'd be playin 2nd life or some such.

When I first started in EQ, I (mis)read somewhere that you needed to choose a safe camp spot, and assumed it meant that even tho I wasn't logged in, my ranger was still 'in-world' and could be attacked. So I would always run back from wherever I was to Qeynos and log out in the same room in an inn. It became 'my room'.

One day after hunting in BlackBurrow I ran back to qeynos and I was a bit miffed to find a couple of other toons hanging out in 'my' room. I felt violated somehow. And from then on, I used to camp in the wilds.....well when I say the wilds, I mean the guard tower by the entrance to WK. The guards said they'd keep an eye out ......

Housing is obviously not essential to MMORPG's because the most popular game in the genre has none.

Here's how housing works in DOAC:

http://www.camelotherald.com/housing/manual/

It was a nice system when I played the game. There were dedicated zones for housing that anyone could access. Basically, you buy a lot, and then build a house on it. There were several sizes of houses. You paid rent on the houses to keep them. There were several options for customizing and decorating them. There were also several options for granting access.

Personally, I prefer a system like this rather than the urban blight you get with totally open housing systems like UO or SWG.


Edited, Jun 21st 2007 2:59pm by Aldous

pre-cu SWG was the best MMO ever made. The housing was awesome as before the CU there were little (if any) ghost towns.

The game had a soul.

Although, after the NGE you are right the housing sucked bc everyone left and you had to wade through a sea of abandoned houses everywhere you went.

Although the LOTRO world is too small for this implementation, SWG had the best housing system in an MMO.

I'm not for housing in any form. Don't need, Don't want.

Think that housing is a great idea!!

Place where you can rest or map back to, would be good if you could buy your own crafting stations and/or vendors to put in your house along with house pets / protectors

I remember playing SWG way back before the game was wrecked by CU and agree with others that it was the best MMO ever made, a time when you had player cities bustling with traders, guild halls, trainers etc….
Different cities had different people specializing in different things so you got to know a lot more people creating a better community, searching out the best armor and weapons in one town then going to another for Buffs and food…(the good old days) but that’s in the past as SOE managed to destroy a once excellent game.

LOTRO could do a lot worse than looking at the SWG (Pre-CU) setup designing small/medium/large houses styled differently depending on the location you wanted to put them, Guild houses where guilds can meet and leave items for each other, Town halls with vendors and trainers, Stables where depending on the size of your town depends on where the horses will take you. Taverns where you can get food/drink and smoke pipe-weed with music
This could also bring a whole new dimension to the game and create a better community and possibly new vocations such as mayor, publican, builder, traders etc…. and could also extend current vocations to letting appropriate trades build crafting station, furniture, pets etc….. Think this would also give an interesting aspect to the game economy where looted items once discarded become valuable and more people are coveting different items.

I'm late to the thread but what the heck. I'm pretty indifferent to housing. If it is implemented I might make use of it if it's done FFXI or EQ2 style, instanced and all that with options for decorating but I won't jump for joy. As long as it isn't something you can plop down any where you please.



Blasphemy!!! A dorf preferring the above ground world, what's next elves with humility?