Housing has really opened up a lot of new RP and character expression, here is a short list of updates that seem simple (from where I sit!) but would add quite a lot:
- Various bug fixes (rotation bug): could go a long way to making the experience less frustrating.
- Persistent lighting, as per-room (or per object(s) lighting may seem in the too-far future).
- Setting alts or NPCs as vendors for places, static-non walking characters is okay as pathing might be an issue, but even if we could just get static characters & pets as a first release I think this would help a ton.
- Various foods/mugs that can be interacted with similar to the Arcantina.
- (Generally more dyable stuff)
But what about a big idea?
Perhaps for a future expansion, but I think a good natural extension to this system would be for people to post “groups” or “advertisements” for their homes-as-venues! Many players are deciding to make one (or more!) houses into shops of all sizes and capacity. I think if there was an extension to the housing menu to:
- Search and find venue’s, favorite them, leave ratings.
- Create events, find events going on.
- (if possible, links to websites, guilds, or discords.)
- Image gallery for venue pages, customizable.
- Search for venues/events by name, tags, RP heavy, RP light, etc.
- Event timeline, scheduling events, maybe tie this in with an in-game calendar revamp.
Could the big idea be a third party site? Sure.. I think having it all in-game would be so excellent and a real treat to RPers and those looking to meet new people alike. Furthermore, opening up this system could be expandable to a lot more content - like guild recruitment (guild houses), the trading post w/ crafting trophies or workshops, etc! I think it would actually network a lot of the character identity aspects together. (and since profitability is always on mind… you could charge for adding more than a few images, charge gold for different things, or for like buying event backgrounds & templates, yadda yadda make money etc.)
Thank you!