My guild raid one day a week at a very casual level. Because we are a fun and lite schedule the majority of members raid with other guild throughout the week. We created our guild neighborhood last night but there is only a few members who didn’t have housing obligations and created there.
In today’s day and age an average player will be torn between their guild, their other guild, several communities, streamer charters, their m plus team, ect. But only get access to one alli and one horde house. This seems like it will do more community breaking than community building.
I understand the idea that if every player could create 10 houses it could be a server capacity issue but there can be a middle ground. If every neighborhood is tested to be able to allow every plot to be filled then can we at least make house exteriors in more then one horde/alliance neighborhood. With each exterior going to the same interior for that zone. This should only inflate server capacity on the neighborhood end, which was planned to be used, without bloating the number on housing interiors a player has.
I think it’s something that will be addressed once more neighbourhood zones open up. Right now they are faction locked to GM’s faction, but eventually there should be more neutral neighbourhoods that shouldn’t be faction locked for creating.
Definitely something to be addressed eventually, but I think it only effects a minority of the playerbase so it’s not a high priority thing to tackle.
This is one of my two big downers about housing (which I otherwise adore, it’s just a huge win, I think) because I don’t really have much use for a horde house, but I am really disappointed to have to choose betweeen the guild I run and the guild I cheat on them with! Let me have a house for my second family, they deserve love too!
I mean technically more neighborhood would “fix” the issue. If there are 20 neighborhoods and I can have a house in each then yes, a player, likely, would be able to have a house in all of the communities, they are a part of. But even so that would require you to work out a system where everyone in your community does not have other obligations to that neighborhood zone. There is still an issue if Steve McWowguy is part of a few communities:
the guild <Slay.Dragons> - His Tuesday Wednesday Mythic group for his main
the guild <Dragons.Slay> - His Saturday heroic raid group that he brings an alt to
the secret finder community that he aligns the most with personally with several lifetime friends.
A new player community that he help teach newbies the game
His Monday night PVP team <Slay.Humans> - a group of 15 players who pvp together in RBGs.
His Thursday night Mythic team.
If all 6 of these groups, make their guild charters / private charters for the Horde zone then it would still not matter if there was 20 other zones that Steve McWowguy build in. He would still need to choose what community he wants to be a part of.
To take a step further, what is both <Slay.Dragons> and <Dragons.Slay> want to have a thriving housing community so both put rule sets in place that require raiders to have a house, or they are no longer invited to raid. Poor Mr. McWowguy right, he is now looking for a new heroic group, cannot make a house with the people he really wants to in the secret finder’s community, and won’t be active in the neighborhood where he can be preset for newer folks.
In my opinion this is just bad and not in line with blizzard pillar “Better Together.”
Yeah this is a huge issue that’s making me rethink Midnight in general. I honestly thought I could have one horde house in one guild and still have a house in my alliance guild as well. Turns out that’s not the case because the GM of the guild my horde character is in is alliance. So now I have to choose because housing is inexplicably bound to neighborhood instead of character faction, so I can’t spend time with both groups? This is a horrible decision and absolutely does not support us spending time with our community.
And he can still visit all of those neighbourhoods on the characters that are in those guilds. You just step through the portal in SW on the character in the guild and it will take you there by default.
His friends can also visit him in whatever neighbourhood he’s in by joining a group with him.
Why on earth would this ever be a requirement in a raiding guild? Why would you want to be raiding with people that are trying to force you to play the cosmetic part of the game? Do they also force you to transmog and only use specific mounts in their oh so glorious presence?
I have a friend with her main in another guild and her alts in my guild. When I right click her name in the guild roster I can click “view houses” and I can teleport to her house in another guild’s neighbourhood without being in a group with anyone from that guild. I explored 5 different guild neighbourhoods without talking to any of those guild’s people.