:( I like other games like ARchAge for example that you can personalize an open world home and anyone can wander upon it. I'm my main guilds decorator but being the sole person doing it and it's not even in my control led me to decorate my own personal guild hall and I still run into the problem of nobody except youtube viewers will ever see my amazing designs. Wouldn't the obvious solution be "add decorations to home instances"?I think because being limited to having to be in a party to view an instance that isn't yours and being free to explore anyones home is part of the problem. Starlinvf.1358 I never understood why nearly everytime this is suggested, the focus is on ditching the home instance and creating the same thing, but in a different location. but hey its what happened before, prolly will happen again. Another year rolls by and even less resources are put into it and the communities really dislikes what anet has done, then anet kills the housing team. ALOT OF HYPE! People dreaming of possibilities of what they'll do, then it actually launches and suddenly you find out it takes a year of your full-time, ingame salary just to make a couch and are completley turned off by it. :( I kind of think housing would be the same. Guild hall decorating has fallen through the cracks because anet has decided not to devote any resources to it. It needs to be a FUN, Easy to decorate, game mode not a gold sink, only for the rich 1% of gamers. They also need to entirely revamp scribing before they add a housing system assuming scribing would be tied to it. Yes, anet needs a housing system other then instanced personal housing (or basically the new housing system should replace the old if a player chooses so). It would have to over come the current, but maybe a community village would be coded differently (i mean there's WvW map's so clearly it could work). The basic idea would be that you don't need to be in a party to visit different housing communities and tour through their homes looking at the different design choices they've made or how some people decorate. OPEN WORLD housing is currently highly unlikely, but instanced Village or community housing has potential. People want to be creative and show off their decorating skills to the masses not a few. (Kind of like a solo personal guild hall.) Anet should think of housing like armor.
Yes you could decorate but nobody other then the 4 people in your party could ever see it. What i would really DISLIKE is if they added scribing to personal instances. I think that if they made the home instances non-instanced places and replaced the home instances with an actual housing system it could actually work or just keep the home instances and use a certain building or w/e for the player to use as a personal house. Love Root Beer.1872" said:Lately I've seen more and more people asking for player housing.