Feldon We haven’t done one of these articles in a while and with the lull before the storm, we thought we’d post about some new items. More and more, it is possible to create a house entirely from a blank slate. The choice of floor tiles, wall materials, items to make stairs, platforms, etc. it’s no wonder that more players are asking for empty lots.
Next month’s Tinkerfest will add yet more deck plating options and ceiling fans. The upcoming Dragon Ring and Spires Rebuilding events will bring back the much-desired Housing Teleportation Pads as well as many familiar and new items. Every month more items are added to the Moonlight Enchantments events, as we saw with last month’s rolling fog and other wall and floor tiles. As we reported last month, the Root Beer crafting quest became infinitely repeatable, so instead of shuffling all your alts around to different zones, you could grind tokens all in one place. Finally, the City Festivals continue to pick up new items as players noticed when all the City Festivals were operating simultaneously after the downtime.
Today I logged in to see that just in time for Fan Faire, a full lineup of Casino-themed items are now available on the Marketplace. There are two sets of Gaming Tables and accessories for 450SC each ($1.50 if you got triple SC), and a set of pool balls for 50SC (16 cents). If you drop the whole 1000 SC ($3.33 if you got triple SC), you get two full sets of gaming tables and accessories, a slot machine, and a pool table including rack, cues, two sets of 9 striped and solid billiard balls.
So far, these new Casino-themed items have gotten great reactions from the community as far as the detail and animations that each table has. Their popularity has only been hampered by the inability to place them in Guild Halls.
I think the concern has been that allowing StationCash items in Guild Halls would increase Customer Service calls. Players get rather touchy about being unable to get back items they have paid real-world money for. Ultimately, it would be nice to see a window with all your stationcash placed items with a choice to “Collect this Item”. It would pull that item from anywhere in Norrath and place it in your inventory.
I’ve been dreaming of an empty lot for a while now, since I discovered the house breakouts. Some players are really gifted in creating a brand new house from scratch, the only downside being the item limit.
I wish we could have an outside lot (like in Vanguard – you buy a location and you build your house from scratch) in an instanced zone like in Lotro where not only your house is instanced but an area with several houses so that other players can see your house as well – but that will require some programming for the access limitation.
Anyway, I wouldn’t mind building a house in Isle of Mara 🙂
I was very excited to see the casino-themed items and purchased them right away…only to discover with much disappointment that they are not able to be placed in the guild hall, as you stated. Sigh. What great, interactive items and now they will get little enjoyment. Unfortunately, there is little incentive to visit other people’s homes.
I too bought these for the guild hall only to discover they are house only items. Players actually spend very little time in their houses, drop stuff off and back to playing. Think this is just another ploy from soe to get those of us who took advantage of the triple sc event to use up that money. I will be more attentive about where, when and how an item may be used in the future.
If I’m not out adventuring I’m in my house. My guild halls are just pathways to other places. Rarely am I in there more than a couple of minutes.
I do like when people are trying to figure out why SOE does something. I’m not even sure SOE knows why they do what they do anymore.
Always check your SC items before purchase. Furniture that cannot be placed in GHs has been on there a long time now.
Will I be able to tinker a SUV or a Airplane next. I have a slot machine in my house but run around with a sword.
I find the different perspectives of various players fascinating.
I actually spend quite a bit of time in my house, and in the houses of others. I have regular visitors. When I camp, I always camp out sitting on a bed in one of my houses, usually my main house in Gorowyn. Hopping up on the bed to camp out, with one last glace out the window to the ocean from my loft bedroom, gives me the sense that I have completed my game session for the day. Others will think I’m a nutscase. LOL
My home isn’t just an extended bank vault or a trophy room. It’s the place my where my character lives. It’s where he goes to sort through his loot, equip new items, put stuff up for sale, and just hang out if I need to be afk.
I loved the housing options in Vanguard and how you built that house yourself with player-made building materials, however, the housing lots were always too remote, in my opinion, to make the housing areas alive and vibrant. They were ghost towns, empty housing tracts that always looked abandoned. The housing setup in EQ2 seems to lend itself to a vibrate residential community that makes the cities seem more lively and more immersive to me. I would hate to lose that.
But I also agree that having an empty lot to work with, if it was still integrated into the cities somehow, would be great fun. I’ve recently learned how to edit those layout files and having an empty canvas to start with would create some amazing opportunities.
There are already flying machines in the game. Have you not seen them?
UPDATE: Smokejumper replied.
http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/posts/list.m?start=30&topic_id=502843#5582117