Housing? What's the point?Follow

From what i've heard it is one of SOE's many ways of getting you to not have a lot of money, a money sink so that everything isn't valued in kpp's

Edited, Sat Nov 13 19:35:09 2004 by ahallnamesaretaken

I am not positive but I think that you need to be in your apartment to sell/bazaar items. So there is not much incentive to go farther than the basic apartment, but it is still needed.

I think I read that your supposed to be able to get some crafting tools in your house that you can use which could make your home kinda helpful.

I haven't seen the housing in EQ2 yet (I'm still on outcast isle), but if its like the SWG housing then I'll be playing alot more WoW this coming year. I hated how they turned all hunting places into suburbs.

What I know about housing so far:

Housing is INSTANCED. Other players will not see your houses. They will all enter through the same door, but zone into their respective houses. You cannot place free-standing houses anywhere. Because of this, hunting places will not turn into housing projects (phew).

You can control who has access to your house. This is the only way other players will be able to see your house, because of the instancing system. I do not recall if you can make housing public and available for all players to enter.

Housing allows you to place items up for sale EQ1 bazaar-style.

Housing allows for different types of furniture to be placed. I assume SOE has flexibility as to what the furniture does. Something like crafting stations, or furniture that can store items. Just some ideas.

I have yet to see it to prove this, but it was said originally that there would be free-standing guild halls that your guild could purchase and upkeep if they had a certain number of status. Performing guild quests will give your guild xp and status. There are a limited number of these halls available!

Edited, Sun Nov 14 14:08:28 2004 by Arvec

I dont see the ability to store gear, was it nerfed?

you have to have a house to sell stuff on your "bulletin board". also, to have pets o.O lol.. and you can invite guests over.. and have a party! XD ... plus what would life be like in EQ2 without a home? :\ i dont like being a bum, even thou my card board box seems confy at times.. >.> so in EQ2 I WILL NOT BE A BUM! I will live in an apartment and somehow get 5 more silver by the end of the week to pay for it! Woot!

Am I clear in that you needed to pay an extra $30 to get a dragon for your house? Something that exists in an instanced virtual zone that basically only you will see?

I see no point in having instanced living quarters. I liked the eq1 bazaar system of buying and selling better because I didn't have to zone to buy from a trader once I found gear I wanted. I see no point in decorating my 'house' for my own personal enjoyment unless I get to the point that I simply don't care how I spend my money in game. The only time I am in my 'house' is when I am /afk selling. What is the point of making it look pretty for the people that come buy from me?

Unless I am missing cocktail parties going on in instanced housing...? That I might be interested in.

Dont You Have To Have A House To Be Citizen In Your Respected Town? They Should Stop All The Non-Rent Paying Fools At The Gates In My Opinion =) Besides, Dont We Want To Pay Our Taxes Like Good Sheep?

I think the point is to establish the code so that in the future they can come up with some crap - it could also serve as a semi private meeting place. 6 days from launch is not enough time to determin what all the hit you can do with **** is. Crap the battle system has yet to be fully mastered much less the world.

Ok i would just like to point out that you all have not look at all the furniture yet.. There are these little things called strong boxes which crafters can make.. right now my friend is going to make furniture. He pointed out that these strong boxes have a weight of 100 and store up to 8 items. Right now he's just been putting them in the bank.. But i was wondering if you can place them in your house and use them as storage? has any one tryed this yet? ill have to poke him tonight when i get home from work and see if they can be placed.


Edit: Ps: im pretty shure like FF XI that house's will do something eventually.. Just not shure what yet..

Edited, Mon Nov 15 07:13:47 2004 by Martog

Personally I don't mind the house probably be a money sink in the short term but there has to be some reason for it in the long term... I could move out and be homeless but I would rather not.

Think I heard elsewhere that if you can't manage the rent for a few real-life months that it has a cap of only a few silver (a week's worth of rent?). So until you pay your (cheap) rent bill, you're just locked out of the house for a bit (no loss of items).

I kept mine, did the basic quest to get the mirror, table, chandelier... and put the Freeport book on the table. Whether I'll have 5sp at the end of the week for rent is a bridge that my troll will cross when he gets to it.