Garrisons were great, but Blizz dropped the ball on them and imo, were lazy with them. They weren’t really customizable as I had hoped. I for one do not really like the harsh Horde theme of logs and spikes and whatnot. Sure, it sort of fit in with Frostfire Ridge as to not call too much attention to the natives, wondering what was going on. However, the Alliance architecture completely stood out on Draenor.
I wanted to have customization options based on my character’s race. I liked the option of having different styles whether it was Blood Elf, Troll, Undead, Tauren, Goblin, or Orc. It was my Garrison, so I wanted to make it my own.
I really hope hosing gets to have options for many themes so we can make it feel like our own and not another copy & paste of every housing that is there.
Skyrim had some decent housing ideas to go from. Even LoZ: TotK gave some pretty unique housing ideas that you could have a lot of fun with.
Don’t limit it like you did garrisons. I would rather my character be homeless and always live on the city streets than live in another standard home that everyone else has.
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Very important to insist upon: XYZ full axis control for placement of objects, and large environments with high item counts.
This distinguishes real player house crafting, from a child’s paint-by-number project.
That might be too complex for a lot of people, so a simplified and advanced style control options would be the route to go. Hopefully addons eventually as well.
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I HIGHLY doubt they could pull of full axis controls. In fact, if they did I would be completely shocked.
But high item count I could totally see. Most limitations in other games are because they are also on consoles.
I agree. I’m not like that into design or terminology for it, but if it’s going to be made a big deal, then I would like it something worth doing and not just like “You get A, B, or C” like we did in WoD.
I just hope they go absolutely nuts with professions for them. Besides the occasional trophy or achievement reward I would want almost everything for housing to come from professions.
Garrisons were not player housing. It was a base coding system that could be expanded upon to create player housing… but the Garrisons themselves were not player housing.
I forsee SWTOR style, which is great, imo!
Just steal lord of the rings online housing and improve where needed, it would be a massive success.
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If I can’t put my house in the new draenei city that was revealed in the draenei heritage quest then I don’t want a house.
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I’d be surprised if we had full control of customization.
Honestly, I want to put my house there. I am so excited for that city!