I would love to see the Keyring expandable bag return with the Player Housing and, where as it’s understandable not to use them as a ‘hearth’ and teleport you directly to their door, it would be great if the keys had the ‘address’ (i.e. the layer their home exists on) they were invited to visit. It would be cool if you could ‘track’ a key to take you to their door using the in-game Pin system.
This could allow players to view a players home even when they are not online. Maybe a key could even be upgraded to a ‘Master Key’ to indicate that they can design decor within the space using that players furniture, since devs are looking into a system that would increase account security (never give out your account info! EVER) while allowing this feature.
I can imagine most players would rather ‘Whitelist’ players who have access to their house, but some want to create puzzles in their home and inviting all players by sending out keys with the option of revoking a key (‘Blacklist’) would be a cool way of doing this. Then players could check their Keyring to see where they might want to explore for open world RP. There could even be a player count on the slot so you could see how busy it is if you are looking for a party or a quieter RP experience.
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From the perspective of a creative who wants to invite players TO my house for puzzles, it would be nice if ‘keys’ used the macro system of icons to customize them as well. Imagine all ‘keys’ use a random default selection of key icons already in-game, but you could change it to reflect your tastes, your house, or as advertisement to the kind of activities await a visitor!
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The keyring should never have been removed
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No, it shouldn’t have been, but I understand why it was phased out for new player accessibility… I just think it could be recycled into something fun and give us a nostalgia hit at the same time as being useful 
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Love the idea! Sound amazing.
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I want to put all my keys on a key ring by my bed, or on a dresser, etc. I earned every damn key
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Forgive me if this sounds bad but…I wonder if rogues can pick locks to other player houses. Like pick your lock but be unable to really steal anything just breaks in and looks around like “Wow this house is rather nice” or “Could use more decorations”
Raises eyebrow
“The Chicken Ranch” huh what a strange name for a house…
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Chickens everywhere, chicken pets, chicken mount, chicken plush/beanbag chair, chicken fursuit… look, if the key shows an icon of a chicken, at least you were warned! lol
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I’m pretty sure that will not be a capability/feature; just like you cannot enter someone else’s garrison without them inviting you to that private instance.
Only if I also get the pleasure of putting down my keys and forgetting where I left them.
Well obviously not, player housing tends to be in its own world these days but if they’re adding communities and your house is just occupying a plot next to your neighbors and can be seen… idk makes me think isolating them in their own instance was nicer as it’d lag less. I mean imagine getting chinese new year decorations for your house and all your neighbors got these highly animated things in their yard, you’d walk outside and wonder where all the lag is coming from. Who knows though I intend to quit by the time midnight rolls in as I don’t care for the housing thing, I’ll never see how crazy it gets but that’s fine I got a house in GW2 I need to worry about. I just figured I’d ask about rogue’s lockpicking as it’s kinda fallen off as a minor thing now. I mean hey it’s great in some timewalking dungeons as they can open up doors for people to speed things up but… besides lock boxes from mobs it’s a skill that doesn’t see a lot of use. Would be weird if they lost it but when people can make lock picks and not need a rogue to pick things… kinda feels undervalued at times.
I agree! Bring back quivers!
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Quivers should be an optional bag/back transmog because there were some nice old ones that will never be seen again…
Frankly, it would probably be more ergonomic to just integrate all the aforementioned functionalities in the Friends List instead of having another inventory to manage. It would scale better too.
In SWTOR you can give people keys to your Stronghold and they can visit while you’re offline. They can’t decorate or anything, but they can go there.
https://swtorista.com/decorations/stronghold-starter-guide/#How_to_Invite_Friends_to_Your_Stronghold
I personally think that would clutter the Friends list far too much. We already have character friends, Battle.net friends, real ID friends, and favorites. Also, the ‘O’ social tab has so many other functions for the… less RP more functional interfacing features…
If you added keys to that… I don’t mind adding a key symbol to friends names if you are invited to track whose house you can go see, that is a good idea. I think a proper key we can customize and push out to ALL players so we can promote our ‘Open House’ ideas, such as parties, puzzles, maybe promoting our services to decorate… and to do so in a very RP friendly way would be preferable. This could also allow use of the new bag sorting system as well so we can sort characters we know of faction etc. and could even include descriptors similar to Looking for Group (I know they won’t give us signs to decorate, but I think sorting key descriptors would be a good compromise). It’s VERY RP and would feel way less like an abstract UI, plus it would feel like good nostalgia vibes.
Keyring would be nice again, but a lore library to store all old books, notes, scrolls, writings, w/e from 20 years in my bank and let me review them all from one book case at my house would be really something.
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I’m holding out for this too!! Nobody said we can only have 1 and not the other, in fact there’s strong evidence in interviews to suggest they hadn’t planned on bringing the library in right away but they added it to the ‘to-do’ list, I think, when several interviews from the streamers they invited requested or asked about other books. They would undoubtedly gotten to it eventually, but at the moment they only have 1 readable book and may not have the full library feature at launch.