Yeah, I would be disappointed and not too terribly surprised either. I’m just hoping I don’t set my heart on my dream property only to find that it’s one of the more expensive plots. I’d really rather it not eat into my life savings every time I move, lol.
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I hope there’s weather effects. I’d love to walk outside my house and see rain, snow, or a sandstorm. 
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I think my main problem with this is that I don’t want to “level up” my house. Garrisons already did that with building ranks, it sucked. I just want a house, I want to be able to reasonably easily change it based on stuff I find in the game. That’s it. How is that so difficult of a concept?
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That would be cool. I’d also love to see the neighborhood reflect the seasons or at least have decorations that do. Wouldn’t it be neat to put a tree in your front yard and see it bloom in the spring, be lush and green in the summer, turn orange in autumn, and be bare in winter?
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I looked and found a blue post that confirms this. Your friends can live in your house apparently, I think this implies only one person owns. But hopefully both can decorate!
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Yes! That would be amazing. Right along with seasonal decorations.
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Yeah I’m wondering if you can grant decoration permissions to certain players.
Apologies if someone else has already answered this, but:
If my two friends and I aren’t enough to have a private neighborhood, I can cope with that. But, there needs to be a way for us to all be in the same public one, or this is going to be massively disappointing. I can cope with random neighbors being in the neighborhood but I want my friends among them.
Is it known yet if there is a way to do this?
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I hope there’s a way because I’m in the same boat. I’m wondering if you can visit a neighborhood before plopping a house down. If that’s the case then you and your friends can visit the same neighborhood together and decide together if it’s the right fit for you. I really hope that’s the case, not only would it help to keep friend and family groups together, but it would also keep down the cost of constantly moving your house.
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Yeah. It would be annoying if this happens (A, B, and C are friends):
- A looks for a neighborhood. B and C will join them when they have one.
- There’s one public one with 2 slots left. Not enough for all three friends, so A decides to wait until that one fills up so the server creates a new empty one.
- The next day, when A gets to log in, the new one is up, but only has one or two slots left, so A must wait again.
- Rinse and repeat.
Even worse would be: A joins a neighborhood, and before B and C can join them, it fills up, so now A has to pay to switch to another neighborhood that B and C both get into.
There needs to be a way to make this work. I’m pretty excited with most of what I’ve seen of housing, but I’m kinda surprised Blizz doesn’t seem to have anticipated this question the way they did a few others. There is a middle ground between “solo player who doesn’t care who their neighbors are” and “big groups of people who can get their own neighborhood” and hopefully they will soon give us info on this.
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Let me suggest my own answer:
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Form a group of any size that is too small to qualify for a private neighborhood (however big that is) with the friends you want to be in the neighborhood with. (There’s no way that minimum is going to be bigger than 40, so at worst, a raid will do it.)
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Click some magic button “Join public neighborhood as group.”
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If an existing public neighborhood has room for you all, you all get plots in it.
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If not, the servers make one big enough for you all (and then, of course, random other people will start showing up).
I recognize this won’t necessarily allow you to pick the plots you really want – a dream would be letting everyone pick on a map of the neighborhood which plots each person would be willing to be assigned to, and it finds a public neighborhood where all of you can get your wishes, but it would be at least somewhat reasonable to say “sorry, there were 4 of you, there were 4 plots left in this neighborhood, it’s what you get.”
It would be more important to me to be in the same neighborhood as my friends, than to get the exact plot I want. Of course, I’d prefer both, but if I must choose, I choose my friends.
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The post says that if you lose your spot in your neighborhood, either voluntarily or not, your house is “packed up” in its current state and can be “unpacked” when you have a new plot/neighbhorhood.
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Pretty sure they’re into rewards, same as all WoW players XD
I haven’t seen anything explicitly FOMO yet, the Endavours I’m assuming can come back around, especially in a Private Neighborhood where it can be voted on.
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I’m curious how Charter neighborhoods will work, will it be like a guild signing form?
When I say that the housing for the alliance looks better I mean the zones when you can put your house (sorry, I wasn’t specific), I would like to have my house in a zone like Mulgore or Eversong Woods, so I spect that it isn’t just Durotar or Azshara style for us. To be fair I prefer purple-gold structures as we seen in TBC for some belf, for what I see on videos you can change color for objects, I spect it to be available on houses too.
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I’m wondering that too, M. Like a guild charter is what I would guess, with one big difference: if anyone quits immediately after the neighborhood is created, the neighborhood goes poof.
We’re not likely to be able to do the “Paying 100g for a signature, will kick you out once it’s created” thing. People are going to have to be willing to commit to it. And unlike guilds where you can roll a new alt just to sign someone’s charter, houses are per account per neighborhood, so you’re not gonna be able to help someone else out without giving up your own current location …
If a new forum category “Housing charter recruitment posts” comes into being, it is gonna be interesting.
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As long as I’m babbling …
The “my friends want to be in the same neighborhood as me, but we’re not enough to get a charter” problem is a bit less of a big deal IMO if we know we can visit our friends’ houses and yards regardless of neighborhood.
If my friends in another neighborhood can visit the inside of my house whenever I let them, obviously they don’t need to be in my neighborhood. But if they can’t also enjoy what I’ve done with my yard, that would suck.
Even if it were something like garrison zoning, it might be okay. So, Bob visits Carol’s house, in a different neighborhood than his house is, and walks out through her front door. Bob is now in Carol’s yard and sees what she’s done with it. If Bob steps out of Carol’s yard, however, he zones into his neighborhood.
That would be at least something. I care less about endeavors and their perks if I’m in a public neighborhood anyhow; they will get done or not more or less randomly, as far as I’m concerned. What I want is to see what my friends have built, outdoors as well as in, and for them to see what I’ve built. As long as visiting a friend’s yard in a different neighborhood is possible, it would help.
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I want a neighborhood that celebrates Halloween and hands out candy, that is all
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Ok, now on a more serious note. How to you acquire a plot and house. Do you buy it with gold? Do you have to do a series of quests?
If I do not mow my lawn every week will the city fine me?
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