IRE Asks: Is player housing important to you and why?

Make them!  Dragon houses.

It's nice, at times. But at others it's a reason to just idle about for no reason. It's also ridiculously expensive, so when you do get a house (at least when I've done it) you eventually trade it in for the extra credits you needed for an artefact item.

Player housing isn't personally important to me. I've yet to find one I fit in to! Also, I like the occasional freedom.

I feel like I would love a house, but couldn't justify the credit cost...Haven's in Aetolia make it close enough

Absolutely!! I love player housing. Not only is it a place to hang out with friends, but it also is my sort of creative outlet. I love to think up new ideas, but IDEA just doesn't seem to be as rewarding, because more often than not, the admin will just throw it out. But, I find that housing, along with crafting, is about the best way that I have to directly create something in the world that everybody, or at least everybody that has access, can enjoy, and that I can have complete control over (within reason, of course).

Housing upgrades are also great. Of course, that's another excuse of mine to own a house. I can buy housing upgrades, and have done so. I can hide my books permanently from thieves, can harvest, can hide completely under a bed, and of course, I'd love to do more, but I'm not THAT wealthy yet.

I couldn't think of any specific housing upgrades that I'd want that don't exist already. Except for maybe a bank. Actually, no, I wouldn't even go for that. Perhaps a non-decay stockroom. Or customized exit directions. Now THAT would be nice. Hide the exit, and rename it from northeast to JUMP OFF BALCONY. I'd go for something like that. 

Even BETTER, which I've always wanted to do anyway: I would LOVE to be able to link two houses together. Since every house has a number (house1788, for example), if you had two separate houses, perhaps limited to the same city, I have always wanted to see an exit that went from house1788_1 to house1823_3. Yes. Please!!

I love being able to make my house look however I want, but doing so empties my wallet pretty quickly.

...but like others have said, it's really expensive. I'd rather spend the credits on artefacts.

ive had the cash for a while now to buy an estate but I just cant seem to be bothered, dunno why

They're more or less just a hiding hole for people to annoy people without any consequences. Now if inns were to hire out rooms, that would be a far more interesting idea

I would find it very disappointing if an RP game didn't have some kind of player housing, but I'm also not really in a rush to get my own text place.

I love player housing. It's the only place you can go and expect to have no interruptions to work on systems, reflexes, ect.

I have always dreamed of having a chaos tower with a gloomy graveyard as an entrance and then many floors. I have thus far managed to get to two rooms built hehe! But the more I save up my credits and money, the more I realise that building this is going to be pointless, because my main issue with housing is security. Unless I make every room in my house anti-prism and such I will never feel safe in my own home. I have been robbed twice in my house by accidentally going AFK and in the end I stay away from my own house. Right now I am saving up for a ship and I know that at least on a ship absolutely no one can get to you while you are docked. So I have come to the conclusion that i'd rather find sanctuary on my ship than in an unsafe house that will eventually hardly ever be used anymore. Yes I know beds are a sure safe place to escape to, but I don't want to have to walk through all my rooms and the subs just to get to it to be safe. And for the price of a bed I might as well buy a ship where I can AFK on the cabin or on the deck as I please and still be able to sail the seven seas! So no I shall not be building onto my house anymore. They are becoming more and more pointless with the other options available.

Mine is not a house exactly, I like to call it my warehouse. I use it purely to store all my excess minerals and such. Much better and cheaper than buying a greater vault!

Mine is not a house exactly, I like to call it my warehouse. I use it purely to store all my excess minerals and such. Much better and cheaper than buying a greater vault!

I love the idea of making your own place to store items and customize.  Agan this comes to customizing your character and being different from others.  I'm still jealous of Niggurath (?) for owning a house in the Mhojave Desert.

I love my text house (:

with Toot on this one, only use for me is to store herbs and extra comms though its not really my house and I can't even justify buying a boat, rather buy a shop myself

Midkemia does housing right.

I think I'm not going to buy a house in the near future, I prefer saving up for a ship. Maybe on some day far in the future I have enough credits sitting around unused to expand the cabin a little, but I will certainly not get a house in the subdivision. As others have said, a safe house costs far more than a ship, and unlike a house a ship does have a use (I don't need a garden to harvest or so, but shiptrades/fishing/diving are somewhat useful).

mi familia.

Only if it has a very defined benefit and fufills a function beyond safety and security.  In Midkemia, rogues are very dependent upon alchemy and plants to make poisons, yet there is a severe shortage of certain plants to the point where it's maddening.  I would propose the ability to have gardens in MKO player housing.

better to have a home then be a homeless bum?

says it all

I need a house to mudsex in.

It's so customisable and has such neat artifacts.  One could build a manse city if they had the gold and credits.  infact I believe one is though it's not as active as when I started.  deepnight. used to be well known and populated.  I'm not sure so much these days though.

I have never really thought much about it, but geuss having your own space is probaly quite nice. Groves > Houses

Werin doesn't really want to spend any resources on something as irrelevant to his goals as a house, but if I make a more laid-back character I might get a house.

it is nice to have a house

Not at all. I wasted good coin on my estate, and its only one room, that by design is illogical to have alone, and no one comes and visits and its not mapped. Frankly I think the ESTATES in MKO are ridiculous wastes of time and money.

I am too busy doing things to sit in a house for long.

...until IRE, in their infinite wisdom, decided to remove security measures to encourage thieves and trespassers.  To remedy the problem, they offer us back some security, but we have to pay the price of 4 rooms (larger than most homes).  Epic fail.  Not to mention they are a pain to get to.  Fix the problem by lowering the cost of no-prism upgrade and make them appealing by adding a "return home" ability like with ship return.

I don't own one, but I would like to.  I do think they are a nice addition to the game, giving you a place where you know you could just relax, or say you need to go do something important IRL (stir dinner, use the facilities, etc) you can "semi" idle there.

But it would be nice if they came with some sort of storage room like the shops that are available in the housing Lusternia has. But something at a much lesser cost. 1000 credits to have a personal storage space would seems a bit extreme. Maybe something that allows you to leave items in it like a shop does, allows them not to decay, yet has a set amount of how many items can be stored there. Like an inexpensive artifact that starts with 30-50 item amount limit and for another 25-50 credits you can get something that will increase it by 50, giving it a max of 300?? 

Need a place to have my boom boom room.  Thus, housing is very important!  Yes, one of my rooms is actually titled Boom Boom Room. heh

I'd honestly like to see more done with player housing. Perhaps some way to mark your achievements, or more nifty things besides the common furniture to add to your place? I mean I'd love trophy cases or stuff like that.

For reasons that you'd have to enter my house to find out?

it is nice to have a house, but completely stupid being forced to have to have it in a city where it is then not really your house at all but the cities house they are renting to you.. yeah.

If I don't want to be bothered, I can coup myself in there. :D

Not exactly necessary but fun. It is stashed in the subdivision so makes things difficult

just meh

I enjoy having the ability to buy a house. Not only is it good for roleplay but it gives me another venue in which to create. You are taking a little place (or big) of the world and making it your character's own, in a way.

Estates are one of the safest places in MKO and it's nice to have something..

I had considered owning a house but then I purchased a ship, for a heck of a lot more than a house and like that I can use it to sail all over the place. I purchased rooms for it and love that I have a personal spot on my ship that only I can enter. I also like that it is much safer than a subdivision as folks cannot prism to me while standing around idle without needing to buy the prism block upgrade.

I think if I could go to a house from anywhere similar to shipreturn I would get a house as well. It could be very useful to get to my house from anywhere. I think it's annoying walking through a subdivision to reach a house, though I do have a room I use in a few houses.

They're stupidly expensive.

They aren't secure - you can't idle for more than 5 seconds without worrying that someone will prism in, unless you pay even more to prism-proof every room you want to use. A room you can't spend time in is all but pointless.

They're badly contextualised. The subdivision has not aged well, most of them look as you'd expect the intersecting visions of a dozen Development Ministers building on each other's work over several years to look. Where is the subdivision, geographically, within Ashtan's walls? And if it's a suburban enclave, isn't it kind of dumb for me to build an underground cavern with bubbling magma pits, or a towering spire with a moor for my airship?

I own a small plot with a house, and I never use it.

I think player housing can be cool. I took over Caius Cosades' house in Morrowind before he even left, filling it with my stuff, using the bed, using its roof as a Mark/Recall point.

I love the ease of building my own few rooms. Lusternia's way of making them aethermanses fits well with the setting and means you can have anything from a volcanic temple to a house build from sheep.

really expensive for something you get at 100

Never used it so I sold it.

I think they're kind of neat

Having your own place lets you hide away when you don't want to be bothered, and I think is an accomplishment or something to achieve even to begin with. Plus, at least in Lusty, they can be turned into ships, which is awesome.

It's nice to know I have the option, but I'd probably never get one unless there was some added benefit besides just having your own place.

I personally think it's something that could be expanded on quite a bit. Basically, make it cheaper, make it more integrated into the experience. For example, UO housing (or at least an inn room or sleeping bag) was necessary to quickly log out. Just a bit of routine behavior and vulnerability that would be nice in games where you can usually sit afk in a siege line and never have to worry. But I digress, this is far too long of a post for my free credit.

I'm quite content with having access to other people's manses atm. I only ever use them to hide in or do guild / ministry paperwork. I wish there was an option to allow your presence in a manse to be visible if you wanted that, for example let the manse owner decide on how it is set up.

Needs to be class specific and be easier to modify

but it would be fantastic to have a place to hole up for some privacy.  Expensive to get it started, though, especially when there are so many other things competing for credits/gold.

I don't think having a house, or a manse is an ABSOLUTE must have. but  I definantly do like knowing i can have one and think at some point in time everyone who really plays should get one. however it is a matter of priority for me. I mean I'm not gonna spend 500k+ on a manse when I don't have all my cures and equipment, or enough credits to trans some of the skills, ya know?

As for what I think would be great if they'd add? SHOPS!! And yeh I know you can have A shop in your manse. but I mean, look at richter's CITY Deepnight! If we could add shops to more then just the entrance of a manse that would be awesome!

I don't really care about player housing too much. Houses outside of subdivisions are too expensive, and houses inside subdivisions are less exciting.

Storage baby, storage

A house can provide many interesting facets to role-playing, but by itself I find it relatively useless.

I think having the option for one to create and have a house is great.

Who needs one when you have the forests!

I don't have a house yet either, but like I mentioned, I think having the option is great. I wish the article described a bit of each housing system in the ironrealms games. I don't play Lusternia but of what I read about  it, the housing system in it seems pretty neat.

I can safely say I spend more time in the Templar tavern than in my house (usually doing paper work or designing). All I do is qq in my house, and keep my extra mounts there....... I'm still not sure -how- my mounts get into the house, seeing as I designed it as a tree house.....

It seems cool, but not necessary. I've thought about buying a manse before, but that's one of those long term things where I've bored myself in other aspects and need something new.

It's a decent rp aid, and acts as a good money sink.

but cant afford a house.  wish i could though, be nice to have a place to just find silence

Having a house allowed me ot have a personal library and a non prism room, which are coincidentally the same room.  It's great for when you're doing a lot of in-game reading and don't want to worry about someone prisming to you.

For me, honestly, it depends on my character's RP. Is my character the sort who would crave opulence, property? Then he'll strive to attain it. He is a minimalist wanderer-type? Then, perhaps he won't worry about it too much, and just make his home by the roadside. *shrug* Or anything in between.

because I was Minister of Development. Actually turned out to be fairly useful.

It's a nice thing to have if you don't wanna be bugged by people walking into the room you're in all the time.

Housing makes me feel I am a part of the community more, that the city is my home. I like the freedom it grants for all manner of descriptions. 

The idea of dropping the creds on a house in achaea just kind of seems like a waste

It isn't important to me. I would rather be out talking to people. But it's nice to have a house for rp reasons.

yes. It is grat to have some place to go to that you can claim ownership of

I like the idea more than the cost

It's nice to have, but it is far from a necessity.

All very well you could hide from assassins within your house, but it is never full proof I have been robbed successfully twice in my house already. Luckily pickpocketing is not so effective, but in the end it is so much safer to simply use a ship as a house.... shippy shippy shippyyyy....

well, at least it is far less likely for theives to come after you in your house now that pickpocketing is the norm

People seem to spend all this money on homes just for solitude - couldn't they just log off if they weren't going to invite people in?

It's nice to have more design space too. And being able to develop your own little personal space.

I wish noprism was cheaper.

Player Housing is not that big a deal for me - primarily for RP reasons - but I don't log into a game to "play house." 

Despite the whole logging on and off thing... some of us do like to sit in a calm, quiet undisturbed place where we can read a book or news posts without having to worry about getting robbed in the process... One can't always QQ for everything it would become rather annoyng... yes journals work great for AFKing but there are still things we like to do in-game that require you to be there... I noticed after having bought a house that after a while I was not using it at all anymore. Yes of course when you have a ship it is so easy because to go home you simply shipreturn, for houses to have any use at all I agree... room upgrades need to be dropped drastically to about 50 credits per upgrde... Rooms themselves need to be cheaper... a room credit should cost 25 credits instead of 50... The price of an upgraded and secure house to which you are even unable to return to instantly any time you want way outweighs the price of a ship which gives you all those security features and more! As someone mentioned earlier, if housing is going to be any more worthwhile we need to have the option to return to a house as we would to a ship with a similar skill perhaps in survival?

Home is where the heart hides.

player housing is another opportunity to open up/augment your own rp, by adding elements which tie into your own personality or providing a space to bring your text-family/friends together.

Though expensive in most games, be it the cost paid in real money or that which you've acquired bashing and such... I much like my home in MKO, it is said that you can tell much about a person from visiting their home and seeing how they keep it. The same goes for characters, I think. Firengaud's home is an extension of himself.

I think housing is good... somewhere to keep some of my stuff!!!