Multihousing Questions Answered

Written by Feldon on . Posted in Art, Appearance, Housing, Game Updates & Maintenance

Anobabylon from Oasis posted some questions about multi-housing coming in Game Update 60 and SmokeJumper provided some answers:

Q: While you are putting in the ability to own more than one home, could you please also add in the ability to share homes with other characters?

A: Prestige Homes allow this already. Add each character to the others’ trustee lists, then link the homes together via portals. Voila! Now your homes are linked and you can edit them freely.

Q: Change *Guild Port Doors* to be heirloom/attunable (heirloom selfishly because my main character buys all the doors for my other girls) rather than no-trade and let the location of our attuned guild port door be where the “Guild Portal to Player Housing” sends us to. This would allow us to use the “Guild Portal to Player Housing” to load in to whichever of our multiple housings we choose, or even into a home where we are trustee if that is what we desire.

A: More good news. This already works! You can place your Prestige Home portals in your Guild Hall directly, *and* the current “Member Housing” amenity now allows you to travel to any house that is linked in your home network. This can be a large amount of houses if you have lots of links and friends.

Q: Multiple Character Housing:  Add the feature “Tenant” to the house window’s access tab. When the owner of a house flags a character as “tenant” on the access tab, an option will unlock at the bottom of the house’s access tab for that trustee to “purchase room”. Any time thereafter that the trustee visits that house, they can open the house’s access tab and click on the “Purchase Room” button at the bottom of the screen.

A: So basically, [you want to] allow automation of the current thing you could do by making that player a trustee of that house and requiring rent to prevent you from turning off the Trustee flag on them? (RL landlords could only dream of having such an easy eviction process. I can see how that could make the system safer for “renters” by preventing easy landlord lockouts.

The attraction to the decorator is obvious. And we have a feature coming up that would allow easy advertisement of the properties, so yeah…this might work. I’ll jaw it over with the team.

Q: The limit to the number of displayed vending boxes should be removed all together, but if that is not possible, you should at least increase the number of displayed vending boxes allowed in the home by number of tenants (ie if a house can have 10 active displayed vending boxes placed within the home, each tenant added to the home should increase this number by, at the very least, the number of broker slots the house allows).

A: We might consider something like this in a future update. It’s a decent idea. Needs some considering. The current house vendor system is only marginally successful. There’s definitely room for improvement.

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Comments (7)

  • Dethdlr

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    This is the one I’m curious about:

    This can be a large amount of houses if you have lots of links and friends.

    Specifically the “and friends” part. Does this mean the “Member Housing” amenity is going to let us port to friends houses as well as our own? Would be quite nice if it did.

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  • Trillia

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    Dethdlr, very likely that will happen. Every other form of travel has been made trivial over the years.
    I still remember back in the good old days when I had toons in both Quenos and Freeport where I had to run all the way through commonlands, through Nektulos, over Thundering Steppes and all the way down through Antonica to trade items between them.
    I timed it once and I still remember that it took me a little over 15 minutes to make a full run at normal run speed.. LOL.
    That was actually just as annoying as it was fun, or it was as fun as it was annoying. Can’t really make up my mind about it.

    These days, click a bell, call guild hall, click a spire, call home ….. if both calls are down, go-go-Templar-oddysey.

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  • Dethdlr

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    @Trilla: Ah yes, I remember that quite well. I hated how long it took to get anywhere so bad that I spent over a month harvesting and selling rares in Antonica at level 14 so I could buy a 40% run speed, no faction needed horse. I’m so glad they’ve made the changes to transportation. I understand the concept of “it’s the journey, not the destination”, but for me, that doesn’t translate well into the MMO world when it comes to transportation. Standing around for 15 minutes waiting on group members to make it to the zone is not my idea of fun. 🙂

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  • Mixis Spittlelick

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    Where do we get teleport pads ??? there was 1 way I know of … It was to help fix the druid rings. Now that this “event” is over, Is there another source?

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  • Feldon

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    Mixis,

    You’ll have to wait until the next event of its kind.

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  • Mixis Spittlelick

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    That blows …. Is there an ETA on this event ??

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  • Leaha

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    I believe the portals mentioned in multiple housing are different than the teleport pads from the druid ring and spire rebuilding events. These portals won’t be in game until multiple-home ownership goes live if I’m understanding these portals, correctly.

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