Rumor of Housing changesFollow

File it under gossip then, unless we can find it in a Fan Faire report or a dev quote.

Hey all

I wanted to jump in here and provide some clarification and further information about what we're doing.

We're adding another room to -every- player housing layout that exists. Neriak, Gorowyn, Kelethin, Qeynos and Freeport are all getting more space. 1room homes are now 2room, etc.

While we're doing this, we're trying to integrate a few long standing requests, such as windows in Kelethin homes - one we've personally been wanting to do for a while, but wanted to do right. Unfortunately, wall/floor customizations still aren't feasible outside of Qeynos and Freeport.

So when it came to Kelethin, which needed the most love in my opinion, we didn't want to just add facade windows you couldn't see through to simply give the illusion of windows (the easier solution), so we're spending some time on creating a memory-wise setup of GFay giving you as accurate a view as possible without causing a large performance hit while in your home. Here's an image of where we're at.

The views will be fairly accurate (i.e. from where the home is physically) on most Kelethin layouts, but the 2room home would have a terrible view of a mountain side if done accurately, so I'm making the call to provide a more interesting view for 2room home owners.

In fact, what I'd like to do is swap the locations/zonepoints of the 2room home and Guild Hall zonepoints in Kelethin. We based the 2room view on the upper tier location (where the GuildHall is currently) since it was far nicer and would make the view more accurate if this change was made. We may use this same view for the 1room too as it's current location wouldn't provide much of a view. I didn't want to exclude the 1room homeowners from a view as a result of the homes location.


As for the other homes, Gorowyn for example, we're adding a window to the additional room when appropriate. Neriak has opaque windows, which I would love to make translucent (and will see about doing when time allows - no guarantees yet), but for this initial pass, we're just adding another room. Qeynos and Freeport are getting another room as well, but the windows in these homes will remain as is.

I can't comment on what is surely to follow, and has been mentioned already - item count - but do know that it is being discussed. When there is news, you'll definitely see a post!