I really think you should tell me
Yeah so I’ve talked bad about the system a lot, so to play the other side XD…
They decided that they want to really support the social vibe and therefore they use neighborhoods (if you played FFXIV, DaoC, LotR online, and the like you’ve seen something akin to the system). This allows you to be in a space around others with your house. I can walk from my house to your house (within 50 players in a zone, so that assumes we’re in the same zone (there will be new zones as zones fill up- which means you can always have a house, but doesn’t imply you can have a house where you want it…)).
If you have friends this means you can all live near each other, if you have close knit friends that’s cool. When it’s Christmas time we could all decorate our homes as a theme and run in the neighborhood chatting and doing seasonal content (we don’t know what that looks like but they said there will be seasonal stuff).
There are private neighborhoods if you want to be exclusive, public is a free for all. We don’t know what it takes to spin up a private one, it could be easy in which case everyone can be anywhere they want… and very lonely! lol. Or it could be hard and so only those who REALLY want it will get a private neighborhood. The public ones are without limit though (new ones spin up as old ones fill up).
Now I still prefer ESO-kin but that’s their thought process. Unfortunately this leads to not having a bunch of awesome areas and only a few, like in FFXIV they’ve 5 zones. WoW will undoubtedly add more and will start with two (alliance theme’d and horde theme’d), but will you get “X” awesome space? Actually unlikely because there wont be as many. Something FFXIV suffered was each time they added one it shattered the community (because people would move), so each time they add people spread out. (I have so many reasons why I think this system is only “great” for specific people and kind of “bleh” for the rest…).
So to your question, no we don’t have that zone, and they will add more in the future and maybe at that point you get a elf-ish theme’d city… MAYBE, but adding whole zones is a lot harder than adding a location specifics like ESO kind of systems do.
For the Garrison part, no its not garrison at all. There will not be any significant functionality beyond except what toys can already provide.
For the decoration part, there is massive customization on the interiors (not exteriors), so you can put whatever you want wherever you want (practically) on the inside. If you like decorating your inside is going to be a heaven. Outside will be heavily limited in concepts as is the nature of neighborhood systems :/. Undoubtedly you can place objects, but you probably wont be able to clip and scale them as freely (otherwise you could make missile shaped structures and other horrors). To be honest exteriors will probably be like FFXIV’s default housing system, if you have experience with that.
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Thank you, Eizenaut. Very informative 
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Its going to be amazing! Looking forward to it
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LOL I have so many ways to port out of where I am at the moment…from rings too tabards to cloaks…and as a engi time machines…I am better then a Mage at porting where I want to go…and I am a Hunter now…
If it wasn’t optional, I would totally agree. An example of a poor attempt in this regard would be Overwatch.
Oh. We might be talking about two totally differnt things. If so, my mistake. I am all in for housing.
I love my engineer portals… annoyingly makes me always want 1 of the professions be engineer lol. Don’t have a mage leveled up yet, but I have a dark dwarf and that mole machine racial is also really neat. A dark dwarf engineer mage “what does walking mean?” 
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I was confused though, what does Hunter have that relates to the others? Because I feel like I might not know something I want to know. Does hunter have a movement skill (outside of the pathfinder and such)?
Partly I think the two way teleport would be nice if there is anything there that I may want to check on, imo this is one of the things that helped Garrisons damage the environment as it was both needy and difficult to “return to task” and so people just sat there and queue’d instead (is how I interpreted it).
May not matter
This may be non issue since it seems they are considering making the houses have almost no purpose outside of ‘home’ (I actually dont mind, and probably more am “I like” amenities that have value, just don’t make mythic + grind for progress on it), and if they follow their goal without an overt value I guess I just need to see it to believe it (players will regularly return and “be part of” the neighborhood). As to me I think it’s strange they have also interview saying they want to ensure you return regularly (and my mind is pressing F for doubt). I hope they’ve played other MMOs and polled a lot of different types of players… to figure a way that will both “work” and also not become a constricting social contract of annoyance, because to me that sounds like a very specific type of player, not the usual, and ultimately wishing in one hand and laying down a lot of kodo brownies in the other XD (and is exactly what FFXIV’s is, outside of guild specific or “event” / RP settings).
Rust is a game infiltrated with hackers. I don’t think it’s even playable
I meant as a hunter I can move around with portals just as good or better then a Mage with just portals to major cities…