Thread: Petition for housing system upgrade

I cant say strongly enough that we need a better system than housing wall hangers. Simply there is just not enough spots to put all the cool stuff. I propose one of two things must be done please.

1. Please give us more spots to hang,place, and display our housing items.

2. Better than that would be to let us put our interior items wherever we like. Please do away with interior hangers all together. Housing in other games do it, so I know Turbine as good as they are can do it too. I understand the outdoor scenario, but inside we should be able to decorate at will to a certain number of items.

/sign Trogg

3. Please allow us to transfer ownership to one of our alts so that we can delete characters that have been dormant for OVER A YEAR NOW.

4. Please allow us to sell, or at least somewhat recoup the costs on our house, because they're pretty much useless other than for storage or a trophy case that no one ever looks at.

5. Please allow us MORE storage.

6. Please allow Hobbit housing to be more lore appropriate.

7. Please allow us windows we can actually see out of.

Ahmen To That!

Originally Posted by bear192

Ahmen To That!

Didn't you DELETE your ACCOUNT?

I don't doubt there are such things in motion, I just wish we had some sort of 'honeydo' list from Turbine so that we know what they were working on in what order...though that would take some of the thrill out of it and probably promote more nagging from the player base.

Oh I would just LOVE it if Turbine would pay more attention to housing in this game.

I think they're really missing out on it. They seem to have NO IDEA just how much people get into their houses!!

Let's put it this way..... I paid money to play EQ2 JUST SO I COULD PLAY WITH MY HOUSE!!!

That should get their attention.


HERE is what housing should look like!!

Most of the books and quite a few of the items are actually from completeing quests and other Deed like things.

I'm so wanting to pay for EQ2 AGAIN... just so I can log on my carpenter, craft more stuff, buy yet another house with an alt and spend hours and hours just messing with it!!

P.S. Auction Halls stink. Switch to the Broker system for more competitive pricing and housing that isn't a ghost town!!

8: Add additional neighborhoods.

9: Each toon should be able to own their own home.

Homes just flat out need a better purpose then storage!

For quite a while I've been looking to move to the shire. As of now there are only 3 deluxe houses and all 3 of them are 3 Harrow rd ...ack!. (I also agree with making shire homes more lore appropriate)

We pay upkeep on our homes so they should be in good condition to sell. Shouldn't our homes be an investment and retain there equity? Wouldn't the prices of our homes increase when sold due to limited real estate and/or ideal location w/in the neighborhood or area?

WOOT! 3 new neighborhoods in the Shire!

/signed

How about popping over to the Housing link in my sig and give me a /signed or whatever. The more housing threads that stay current the more visible we will be.

/signed


This words are added because I had to to post.

Originally Posted by RighteousMF

8: Add additional neighborhoods.

No way!!! Combine the existing ones and make one big "neighborhood" so you can actually walk around and see different houses, houseing, interiors, etc without having to port!!!

Originally Posted by trogg

Simply there is just not enough spots to put all the cool stuff.

That is true. I have every trophy in the game including all festival trophies (or at least access to them i.e. rep vendors). Except of course, the three that dont drop: mistress egg and the two from Tham Mirdain (Yes, the Mammoth trophy finally drops!). Anyways, I have all my slots filled, and I keep having to replace my non-bound items with my BoA items. With that, I STILL have a full housing chest and 1/2 of non-bound items and a full bank chest of BoA items.

Please, give us an options to:
A. have more slots
B. BUY more slots
C. BUY additional rooms /chests.
D. BUY more yard decorations.
E. Collapse the nieghborhoods and put the ineffective/non-payed houses together and switch it with used.

E - would require some effort and manually going in and switching it out. To accomplish this, just make a list where people can sign up who are willing to switch nieghborhoods, but still keep the same house. Or just do away with the system, because the problem with it before was that people would leave and come back and there house AND ITEMS were gone. Now, escrow never deletes items, so they would only loose there house. There are so many options that can turn this around that it baffels me how nothing has been done.

Note: With C - this chest will be different as it can hold BoA items and not sharable by other members/toons. This will eleviate the problem of BoA housing items, for the mean time.

I think Turbine is doing a good job for housing, the only thing I would like to see is the deadbeats kicked out!!! On FireFoot out of like 20 instances there is 2-3 personal houses left, In my neighborhood, there is 10 houses locked because they did not pay upkeep and one of those house I want because 2 of my kinship houses are there.

1. I want those houses available on the market

2. Wouldnt mind the option of seeing a cellar in the future

3. The Idea of no hook, the freedom of putting stuff wherever you want seems appealing!


and btw, we do not need more instances for housing IMHO, 3/4 of most instances are ppl who does not play or does not pay upkeep. If those ppl would be out of the instances, we would not have to beg for new ones, and when we get new instances the whole thing will happen over and over again. If the deadbeats are kicked out, ppl will start buying houses in old instances again, which will fix the problem of ''ghost towns''

/signed.
10char

/signed.

I had to agree with what UFCfreak said about the problem in the housing instances.
There are too many no-longer-played player who has deleted their account but still have the house under their toon's name, which creating the problem we are seeing right now. These current housing issues could be fix if Turbine developer consider put these things in place .....

- After 6 months of un-paid upkeep or once account or toons been deleted, it is automatic put back in the market to be use again. (stuff that was in the house/chest will be transfer to Escrow Broker with current system in placed.)

- give house owner more option on how the house deco should be place, freely.

- agree on the windows should be able to see out, gives the appearance of Glass Windows.

- Allow Deluxe house owner to have one Huge yard deco.

- etc...

not sure how to do the quote things... but RighteousMF what you said on #9, it is changed into current system from before.

Here's my dream upgrades, from practical and roleplay standpoints...

1. Couches, chairs, benches, hassocks, whatever(!) to sit on. When we have meetings in our kinship hall or friends in our home, nothing looks sillier than everyone sitting on the floor. We are planning a "Dinner at the Pathfinders" RP night soon. I'd love to have a table to gather 'round, with chairs!

2. What's with all the empty floor space?? Must have been men that designed the housing. ~wink~

3. A kitchen for the cooks, with storage for food ingredients and the option to purchase a superior oven for the house. I would pay vast amounts of gold for both of those. Often when I'm cooking, I forgot an ingredient or run out of room to carry them. If I have made the trip from my vault in Michel Delving over to the crafting area I have made it a hundred times.

4. "Social" food, that can displayed on a table, picked up and eaten.

Houses should be more than static things to decorate. Want community happening in the housing areas? Give them usability.

Aerhinn

Aerhinn
Caun & Membership Director, Marchwardens of Ennoarth
http://www.ennorath.org
http://my.lotro.com/aerhinn/

/sign definitely.

EQ2's housing system is AWESOME. If any of you have ever used or seen it.

I would love

a. Get rid of the stupid hooks, and let us put things wherever we want. Possibly with the exception of the outside yards. Don't want people making the neighborhoods look like crud ...

b. Hang weapons. I understand armor has issues. But would it be possible to hang weapons the walls? I'm saving Hill-Defender for this eventuality ...

c. Put bound items in our housing chests!

d. Have armor dummies, to put armor on

e. No more "midget" trophies. The tiny sabre-toothed tiger is ridiculous. That's not fearsome, it's like we murdered somebody's cat

f. More heads! I love my Troll head. More things should have their heads lopped off.

*signed*


I'm a new LOTRO player who just switched over from SWG, which I played almost exclusively for my home.

I think that Aeslynn hit the nail on the head. Players love their homes.
We want for our homes in LOTRO to be more than just walk-in closets. We want them to be showpieces and hangouts for us and our friends.
Basically, if you want to know what we want, look at housing in SWG and EQ2. That's what we want to see brought to LOTRO.

• The ability to place our items and furnishings wherever we want.
• The ability to acquire more item space for our home.
• More furniture! Especially seating.
• More rooms/more floorplan options.
• Bigger neighborhoods with more housing options per neighborhood.



[I do have to throw a thumbs-up at Turbine for the "neighborhood" idea. I feel that it is far more efficient and nicer-looking than the "slap your house anywhere" system of other MMOs.]

/monster signed.

The SWG housing was the pinnacle in my mind. The ones we have now in LOTRo are weaksauce at best.

/signed Enuil

I would really like more nahborhoods.. but make at least every house diffrent (as in rooms stares ) i hate that there all the same! and cant we PLEASE put the furniture were we want?....and last but not least Maybe we can atleast buy land and make our own house.

Originally Posted by RighteousMF

8: Add additional neighborhoods.

9: Each toon should be able to own their own home.

Homes just flat out need a better purpose then storage!

For quite a while I've been looking to move to the shire. As of now there are only 3 deluxe houses and all 3 of them are 3 Harrow rd ...ack!. (I also agree with making shire homes more lore appropriate)

We pay upkeep on our homes so they should be in good condition to sell. Shouldn't our homes be an investment and retain there equity? Wouldn't the prices of our homes increase when sold due to limited real estate and/or ideal location w/in the neighborhood or area?

Hey now! I love my Deluxe at 3 Harrow!

Someone really needs to drive the point home to Turbine that many of us think of our homes (I'll have 3 by the end of this week) as more than simply a place to stow our stuff. In UO and DAoC, I would spend literally hours decorating and just "relaxing" in MY house. I would be giddy beyond words if Turbine took a cue from some of the other games out there and allowed us free-form decoration and implemented some of the fine ideas I've seen here and elsewhere. They REALLY need to have a "Month of Housing" sometime in 2009!

My wish list! ::

1. Get rid of HOOKS and let us place items where we want.

2. Get rid of SIZE LIMITS - no more small, large, thin limitations.
Almost all of the "large" items are rediculously small and laughable.

3. Increase QUANTITY of items that can be put inside the home!
Even if you use every available slot - homes and kinhouses look empty because of a lack of available slots.

4. More Furniture options
Why can't we craft or purchase table and chair sets that allow players to sit in the chairs around the table?
And no.. not one table with a chair far off in the corner of the room, that's not a complete set - is that what you have in your RL home?!?!?!?

5. Add special TROPHY CHEST - where BoA decor/trophies can be stored!
The items would still be BoA status and only the owner can take them out of the chest *****exception - kinship house--see item #6******

6. Let Kinship House Decorations be moveable
No I'm not suggesting the kinhouse decorator be able to leave the kinhouse with these items, but while they are in the kinhouse, they should be able to move items around without the BoA forcing them to "return to owner". Let's face it, sometimes our fellow kinmates have no decorating sense and place cool items in uncool places.

7. More CHESTS or LARGER CHESTS in kinship houses
As kinships grow, more and more members like to put crafted items like food, edelharn tokens, jewelry, armour, etc in the kinhouse for kinmates to use. The current chest sizes just don't support this.

yeah!
the sims house building system on LOTRO!!!!!!

hauahauhauhauahuaha

I have a bad feeling that Turbine will using Housing Upgrade as a form of extra incentive to encourage people to buy the next expansion.

That's sorta what they did with crafting..

Nothing like blackmail eh?

Originally Posted by Eaglevision,Illuviel

yeah!
the sims house building system on LOTRO!!!!!!

hauahauhauhauahuaha

This has nothing to do with the Sims.

Originally Posted by Spaz

I have a bad feeling that Turbine will using Housing Upgrade as a form of extra incentive to encourage people to buy the next expansion.

That's sorta what they did with crafting..

Nothing like blackmail eh?

If that's what it takes to get housing improved, I'm all for it. As a matter of fact, I suggested a small retail upgrade that would be 90% fluff. I'd shell out $20 in a heartbeat for a better housing system, more hobbies, etc.

/signed

This is Middle Earth! There is much more they could add outside of the usual monster/quest/loot grind.

/signed

Originally Posted by Adder

If that's what it takes to get housing improved, I'm all for it. As a matter of fact, I suggested a small retail upgrade that would be 90% fluff. I'd shell out $20 in a heartbeat for a better housing system, more hobbies, etc.

QFT.

I shelled out $$ for lifetime, for pre-upgrades, etc. I'd definitely be willing to shell out $$ for a significant improvement to the currently lacking non-combat 'fluff'.

/signed

SWG had arguably the best housing system, with EQ2 a very close second.

/signed. I agree - need more hooks or just have it where we can place items where ever - I would love to really be original in decorating.

/sign

omg yay, people who care ;3

Suggestion forum wasn't so awesome heh.

Anywho, give us a housing messaging board, so I can leave neighbors messages >.<

It could just be the little map overlayed on a board, and you click on their house or something.

...yawn...

Wake me up when housing and kinships get some attention.....zzzzzz

/sign

i played SWG from 2003 to 2005 and one of the reasons i stuck with the game even through the horrible CU was because of housing. i LOVED my house. it would be great to see the same types of options in LOTRO.

i agree that the neighborhood idea is a good one, but when there's really no point to go to the neighborhoods other than dropping things off in a chest or buying discounted items, it really just makes housing seem like the red-headed step-child of the game.

to reiterate what others have said, i'd love to see the following:

1 - the ability for all of my characters to have their own homes.

2 - crafting abilities in our homes (someone mentioned the option to buy a superior oven for our homes and i drooled....i hate running back and forth between my vault and the oven in MD...or even having to run back and forth between the neighborhood vendor and the oven because cooking is a nightmare for inventory).

3 - more flexibility in decorating. please get rid of hooks. i hate them. every house looks exactly the same.

4 - if not crafting in our homes, at least crafting in our neighborhoods. i've had a house since the option was offered and i have never seen any of my neighbors.

5 - someone else suggested merchants....i know this would cause a huge upheaval of the game, but that's another aspect of SWG that i miss....the economy. if we could open our own little shops (maybe a business-only neighborhood? or add shops to the current neighborhoods?) i would -love- that.

please don't neglect this aspect of the game!

/signed
I love my house but would very much enjoy more freedom to decorate. Freedom to place things where I liked would be a big help.

/signed also I hope the "you won't lose your house if you don't pay upkeep but you won't be able to use it" deal goes

i think it'd be nice if they opened a new housing area in lothlorien now that it's expanding soon.

[edit] nevermind, after posting this i read the thread regarding it and it makes sense not to.

/signed

I haven't played SWG, but am used to another place that allows us to decorate as we see fit. I've spent hundreds of dollars on various things in Second Life. I'd love to see some housing love here, and would even pay a reasonble price for a super "fluff" expansion, with housing as the focus of that expansion. I'm a Lifetime member and would view it as an investment in the game and my future within the game. I want more reasons to return to my home rather then mostly just storage.

Signed as well. I have yet to have any faith that this will happen. It appears they have more interest in the pvmp than the housing.