House Building Idea

[Natrina]

Now, read everything before hiting me with a flame hammer
 I think maybe building in PS could be something like it is in Wurm, for those that do not now how it is, in that game you get some planks and a Hammer, and some Large Nails and then you can make a house, you right click the ground and do \"Build house plant\" or something like it, and a 1x1 wall plant is made, then you make some more near the first one and they link then when you think it\'s big enough you do \"Finish House plant\" and then you grab a bunch of large nails and some (10 for each) walls/windows/doors.
 My idea is to have something more or less like this... Of course, all the houses look the same in Wurm, wooden things, but they are in beta (alfa?) state yet, and we could have some stone houses and then a painter could paint them and whatever more... What do you think?

[Phinehas]

Sounds cool, although that\'d limit the creativity in some ways I\'d think.

[Lordbug]

I said it somewhere, something like \"if we make the guilds home (write scripts, make 3D models and make textures)...\"

But it\'ll be very cool if we could do guild homes and our own castle or ask a builder if they would build us a house (then we could give them the files that we or an arquitech made) and he would \"build\" (put it there).
I asked this somewhere cause I\'ve seen a game, second life I think, that everything there was made by a player, only the land is made by the creators of the game. But I like PS more. But nice idea  to make a thread about it Natrina.

Hey Devs, answer this: Are we (or the builders) going to be able to make homes?

[Zeraph]

Originally posted by Lordbug
Hey Devs, answer this: Are we (or the builders) going to be able to make homes?

not a Dev yet, but I heard that they were planning something like building your own home.

However I was thinking building stuff would be similar to this if done it-game....

however I would think this is already discussed in-length but I\'m to lazy to do a search on it..

I think furniture should be the same way, place it were you want it, movable. maybe be able to hang artwork on the walls like pictures etc.

[Phinehas]

This is starting to sound like the Sims.

[Natrina]

I said it somewhere, something like \"if we make the guilds home (write scripts, make 3D models and make textures)...\"

 Yup, I know about that, but I want to be builder, but I don\'t even imagine to create 3D and textures and scripts, and it would be more easy done this way... even if not permanent, it would be a nice thing to play in the meanwhile...

[Lordbug]

Hum... I like The Sims...

Natrina: First let me congratulate you: Gratz you finaly got the 2 red stars!!!
For a start (or just to keep it simple) the things could be made like that (the sims way or another simple one), but later, for players who know how to make models, textures and scripts, the things could be made like this, but every house made in the second way should be seen by the admins, \'coz they may contain bugs, that may cause the game to get... what\'s the word... piffed... or may contain a virus.

[dfryer]

I don\'t think viruses would be a problem (unless players were transferring files directly too and from each other).  The houses would not require any \"code\" that a virus could be written in.  It\'s possible that there would be some scripting in the distant future, but even that would be fairly limited in scope & access privileges.

[Efflixi Aduro]

As long as I dont go nuts trying to build a house I\'m happy. Though if Im rich enough I just might hire BC

[ArcaneFalcon]

IMHO most affordable player housing should be instanced.  Only the rich should have actual built homes.  That will not only help conserve space, but I think it will give some extra status to those that have put in the extra time.

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edit: typo

:emerald:

[Zeraph]

Ya, like affordable government made living...
& if you are rich enough you can add on, actually wouldn\'t you start with something like a log cabin (depending on were you live) you could have a good ol\'-fashion House-Raising! :]

[cobaltblue]

I think you should be able to make houses anywhere. you buy the land grant (more/less expensive in some places) build it, then live in it, but I don\'t think it\'s fair that only guilds should get houses because what about the loners and soloers. The advantage guilds would get is more money for bigger houses (pooled resources)

[Adeli]

I like the idea of building anywhere, it\'s realistic... player-run cities can become tedious.
I agree the houses should be instanced... like in Ultima Online, you have a set plan for a small house, and if you get rich/powerful enough, you upgrade it/build a new one. It shows who the powerful ones are as ArcaneFalcon said. I think guilds should get free housing from the devs... there is a thing on the documentation saying guild houses will eventually be provided, but who knows?

OT: Natrina, I went to play ET with you, but Nexus 3 was full and I never saw your name in the list.
When did I become \'Triple-As\'? never even noticed.

[Littlemrsnow]

Thats insane!
building houses anywhere?
I like the idea of buying land and puttin some work into it.. but just anywhere?
the world would be laggy\'r and more loaded up with stuff than my e-mail inbox...
Just a bad idea outta the box..
i love the idea of building houses thou...
All in all i say there should be HUGE empty roads and tons of things in certain area\'s so you can purches a land plot and stick up some old tree\'s or sumthin  to make a house...

[Lordbug]

well, not everywhere, we could just go to a place, then open the buy map, see if the zone is purchaseble and buy it or look for another... something like that. Of course there will be more places to build houses in the cities than in the country-side.
but maybe at first we will just have to buy a house already made.
By making a house anywhere, villages or even cities would appear out of nowhere!
*pop* a house, *pop* another... eheheh