« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: housing... made possible  (Read 2556 times)

willy1287

  • Wayfarer
  • *
  • Posts: 2
    • View Profile
housing... made possible
« on: May 11, 2004, 01:29:49 am »
A lot of people have been talking about the fun

and advantages of player housing.With this the

conclusion has been that it is impossible for everybody i

in the game to have a seperate house, and im sure

nobody would like to live in a giant apartment complex.

But housing could still made possible but without public

acsess.This would consist of the player traveling to a

specified area and from there only HE could acsess HIS

house.This process would not be held on planeshift\'s

serverand would be an offline process in which you

could eat,

sleep, drink, train,etc.after you logged back in it would

be updated and you would spawn back in the specified

area in which you went to your house.IF it were

possible it would be cool if you could invite a freind or

co-own a house
Logged

Monketh

  • Veteran
  • *
  • Posts: 1674
  • aka GovernmentAgent, CorporateAgent
    • View Profile
    • Niihama.ws
(No subject)
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2004, 01:50:48 am »
The idea has been proposed.
This has already been discussed.
It is believed that the world will hold enough room for all requisite player housing.
Additionally, most housing will be rather expensive.

I\'m sure that if it becomes a problem, such a method\'s integration into the system is probable.

*Looks at the last line of what he just typed*
Woah...
Logged
The key to manipulative bargaining is to ask for something twice as big as what you want, then smile and nod when you are talked down to your original wish. You are still young, my apprentice, and have much to learn in the ways of the force. -UtM

Cyrandir

  • Hydlaa Resident
  • *
  • Posts: 130
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2004, 02:02:19 am »
Idea has also already been used in Neocron... did anyone ever play it? or the open beta?  I kinda liked it.....
Logged


\"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.\"    - Galileo Galilei

Altharion

  • Hydlaa Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 450
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2004, 02:15:33 am »
i think that housing will be availible for everyone but it will cost alot and most players will live with they\'re guild.
Logged

Skizzik

  • Hydlaa Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 491
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2004, 09:20:41 pm »
Quote
Originally posted by willy1287
This process would not be held on planeshift\'s server and would be an offline process in which you could eat, sleep, drink, train,etc.after you logged back in it would be updated and you would spawn back in the specified area in which you went to your house.

Train offline, talk about exploitable!  8o
Anyway, if the world would run out of space, the devs would just add a big new cave and a nice event in which it would be \'discovered\', problem solved. ;)
Logged

Visit the Circle Of Legends at:
http://www.circleoflegends.tk

tygerwilde

  • Hydlaa Notable
  • *
  • Posts: 739
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2004, 02:43:40 am »
if there\'s offline interaction with your character, isn\'t there also a chance to hack the character? I don\'t wanna see anybody log to their house and come back five minutes later uber-powerleveled. that would suck badly
Logged
we are the music-makers, we are the dreamers of dreams - Gene Wilder as willy wonka

Johnny Depp\'s a poser to the throne. No one will ever play the part as well as Gene Wilder

tygerwilde

  • Hydlaa Notable
  • *
  • Posts: 739
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2004, 02:45:24 am »
by the way, is there a more fitting term for powerleveling that doesn\'t imply leveling???

after all, this is a skill based game...
Logged
we are the music-makers, we are the dreamers of dreams - Gene Wilder as willy wonka

Johnny Depp\'s a poser to the throne. No one will ever play the part as well as Gene Wilder

Icefalcon

  • Veteran
  • *
  • Posts: 1610
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2004, 03:55:09 am »
Good point ;)

Anywho, I think someone said earlier, alot of people will \"live\" with their guild in a guild HQ/Fortress/Tree Stand whatever. And buildings will be very expensive. I cant wait to see how building houses will actually work in PS...
Logged

Samoth

  • Hydlaa Resident
  • *
  • Posts: 121
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2004, 03:39:00 am »
there would have to be some sort of list of house styles - I don\'t think PS can support totally free form house designs

an artist would have to draw out each style house - maybe you would be able to control the colors or something

sounds like a lot of work
Logged

Icefalcon

  • Veteran
  • *
  • Posts: 1610
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2004, 03:48:47 am »
Oh, I beg to differ, eventually I think we will have free form house designs...there is an architect job...
Logged

Samoth

  • Hydlaa Resident
  • *
  • Posts: 121
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2004, 04:27:37 am »
the archetech job will probably just be able to stick pre-formed peices together.

at some point those peices might be as small as walls but I don\'t think PS will ever be like sims
Logged

Toadhead

  • Hydlaa Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 249
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2004, 05:02:49 pm »
If you would be able to play

offline, it IS possible to hack your character

and change some stats, and than let the server update

everything. You could encrypt it, but since the source

code is free availible you can just look and decrypt

everything.  Housing would just not be cool is everybody

can afford a house. It must be a simbol of \"status\", and

ofcourse mostly guild can afford it! Just make the house

prices high so it would cost you atleast 3 months before

you can buy one. Or what about hiring? As soon as you

didn\'t pay for your house you\'ll lose it whther you have

items in it or not! you can\'t acces it and you have 1

month to pay the fee to get your house back. When

you doesn\'t pay anyone can hire your house. The items

that were currently stored in your house will be sold by

auction. The one that gaves the higest offer will get it.
Logged

Fanomatic2000

  • Hydlaa Notable
  • *
  • Posts: 615
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2004, 06:28:14 pm »
How about something like in the sims where you build your house in \"squares\"? When you enter \"build mode\" you should see your house from above, and then be able to construct everything like a pattern which you then build on. You should also be able to set how many floors the house would have, add furniture to your house, set what type of house it should be (forest-hut, deluxe-apartment, Evil temple, Good temple, Castle etc.) That would be neat.

Hmmm, I get this strong feeling of Deja vu... :P

*Reads samoths post* Ops...
« Last Edit: May 13, 2004, 06:42:06 pm by Fanomatic2000 »
Logged


Be a member of our Mirthful community.
Join us today!   :]

Note:  This is my old account. I am now known as \"Jadd\".

dfryer

  • Veteran
  • *
  • Posts: 1070
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2004, 07:26:20 pm »
I was reading somewhere about post-CB plans, and they included houses (pre-fab, though) and the ability to buy furniture etc.  House owners would have to pay taxes as well as buying the house, so it\'s an ongoing expense, but you will be able to stash all your \"phat lewt\" there.
Logged
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

quiksilver012

  • Traveller
  • *
  • Posts: 30
    • View Profile
(No subject)
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2004, 09:20:58 am »
i think housing should be like you just buy a standard house, maybe just a little hut and you gradually buy more upgrades for it such as extra bedrooms bigger kitchen etc, to make your house really unique...
and about the kitchen, make your own meals and sell them in a little cart on the streets of Hydlaa...
that would be funny :)
Logged
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »