Multiple House Ownership Questions Answered

Such an involved change as rewriting the underlying housing code of EQ2 will no doubt lead to many questions about what has changed, what hasn’t changed, and what additional functionality we might first see in the future. In any programming project, just recreating existing functionality can often eat up most of your time, leaving little left to add new features.

Q (Rainmare@Oasis):

Will the 7 year Vet house be considered a ‘prestige’ home?

A (SmokeJumper):

No, the 7-year Vet house [Mistmoore Crag Estate] is not a prestige home. It’s a “standard” house.

Q (Anobabylon@Oasis):

Can guild halls be linked as well? Get portal device from guild door and place it in another guild? This would be SAHWEEET!

A :

Only indirectly. The shortest route between two guilds would be:

GUILD A Guild A Prestige Home Guild B Standard House Guild B Prestige Home GUILD B

Q: (Anobabylon@Oasis (followup)):

I have gone on and on about bringing in a “sister guild” feature where we could have a shared community between multiple guilds, and though this would not solve all the issues, it would definately be a HUGE leap in that direction. Please take time to consider it and see if this is something that could be implemented.

A:

Not currently, but I’ll put it in for future consideration.

Q (Mary the Prophetess):

Is the Freeblood manors considered to be a prestige home? If I own it already, may I buy a normal home without losing it?

A:

Yes, the Freeblood Lair is a prestige home. And yes, you’ll be able to link it as soon as the feature rolls out.

Q (Tkia):

Many, many people forget to sort out their housing before they start betrayal and for a lot of them sneaking back into a now hostile city seems to be beyond their skills.

A:

Read the FAQ more carefully and look for loopholes.

If you forgot to clear your house out before betrayal, then link into it via a prestige home and sneak your stuff out that way.

Q (Mystfit):

Could you please allow some sort of naming or note ability on the house list interface. With so many homes possible on that list it could get very confusing to remember which house is which or which house has what.

A:

The addresses in the list all contain the name of the owner of that home. For example, you wouldn’t just see “4 Bayle Road” as an address. You’d see “‘s 4 Bayle Road home” as an address.

Q (Makya@Everfrost):

Two questions, when a portal item is placed in a guild hall:

…is it tied to the specific player who’s house it came from or is it a generic “4 Bayle Court” portal for example?

…if it’s tied to a specific player, does it use up part of the item count of the guild hall?

A:

It’s tied to the player (shows their name in the address so you know whose “4 Bayle Court” house you’re looking at).

Yes, it does add to the item count.

Q (Seshat@Runnyeye):

Do I have to own two houses to get links to my friends/alts houses ?

Does this guild hall list hava a limit. What happens if every member of my huge guild gives me friend access to thier house ?

A:

You don’t have to own multiple houses for one of your friends to link to your house from a Prestige Home.

Regarding your second question…then you’d have a lot of friends on the exit list from your house! You’d still have to place a ton of portals for that to work, but it’s do-able. Try it and find out.

Q (Anobabylon@Oasis):

Will the obtained ports from the doors/access points for each house be LORE where we can only carry one at a time? I would prefer if we were able to pick up as many ports as we wanted at any given time so we could have one character make the runs to each of our other characters houses and place them all rather than having to run back and forth; pick up port, go to house A, go pick up port, go to house B, go pick up port, go to house C ect. Just seems very tiedious to me.

Is there any noise about letting us set our “Set Call to Home” ability to be located INSIDE a house? That would be very helpful.

A:

Portals are definitely LORE. One at a time. No, there’s no discussion about Call To Home going directly to the interior of a house at this time.

Q (Neversea):

Will we be seeing those prestige houses on test on live at some point? And please tell me they are NOT station cash ones…

A:

The only thing we haven’t done with Prestige Homes yet is give them away as loot items, and I’m sure we’ll do that in the future. We’ve given them away for promotions, as Fan Faire prizes, and just about every way we can think of…and yes, there will be some available on the marketplace.

Q (Cloudrat):

I have serveral prestge homes already, but for those who don’t, will they be able to link standard houses to each other without a prestige one to link them? I read it but it seems a bit like it could go either way depending on which paragraph you read.

A:

Standard homes can’t be directly linked at this time.

SmokeJumper also provided this image of an xample map of a character’s houses and the houses of their friends and what travel paths are possible.

If you’d like to read these questions and more in context, read the thread on the EQ2 Forums.