Thread: Housing fixes

This is an old topic, but needs to be brought up again. The available list of furnishings for our houses and yards keeps growing with each new area, but nothing has been done to fix/improve our options for displaying those furnishings. All wall mounted furnishings (pictures, trophies, taxidermy, banners, tapestries, etc) should have a vertical placement option. We are allowed to adjust the angle that they hang, but not how high or low they sit. Given the wide variety of architecture types between housing areas, house size, and choice of wall covering - it would be really nice if we could adjust these hangings so they don't hang over the chair-rail, or drag on the floor, etc. I'd also like the option of moving wall items horizontally - but the vertical issue is much more important to me if I had to choose.

Nesting of objects is established for some items, but not others. Why shouldn't a "thin" item fit in a small or large furniture slot? Or why can't "regular" furniture fit in a "special" furniture slot. Many of the floor placed taxidermy mounts would look just fine in a furniture slot, but they are all stuck to the walls. In our yards it would be nice to have the option to replace larger items with multiple smaller ones - for instance putting in a small grove of trees instead of one of those Huge/Tremendous pieces of architecture.

/signed

Something have to be done with the housing system, this sounds like a good idea on the way.

These are all good ideas, I would love to see these changes happen.

What if we could be able to place furniture wherever we want, and just have a limit to what kind of furniture we can place? Or, as said above, have multiple small items count as one large item. Regardless, I think item placement needs to be revamped as well, even if the slots are put in more tasteful places.

The last neighborhood i was in(shire) 3/4 where locked because of failure to pay upkeep.So I moved to thorins.I'm guessing turbine is looking at the same thing and assuming it's not worth thier time.But the threads in the forums say otherwise,Would be nice to spend some of my turbine points on my house.And no not an npc just standing in my yard.

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I sign and comment on every one of these Housing Update threads I see, in the (perhaps vain) hope that Turbine will decide to pay attention to them. And I agree, hooks should be movable. I also think we should be able to buy additional houses (up to 1 per character) and additional hooks for the houses through the Store. ^.^

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Any improvements to housing would be great.

/signed

Never give up, never surrender.

/signed, as always

Berrieblossom was so excited to purchase her own home away from Ma's farm, and she picked a gorgeous location on top a hill with sunny orange flowers, a windmill, and a lovely view. Miss Berrie went inside to start decorating, and found a vast empty cavern with only a few furniture hooks for a living room. No way to put any chairs around her breakfast table--are her guests supposed to sit on the floor? What would the neighbours say? And every furniture hook so far from the ones nearby with no way to move them. How exactly does one sit in a comfy chair by the tea table and put one's feet up on a nice soft stuffed-warg footstool with a good book and a pipe? Hard times have fallen upon the Shire indeed!

But players have been asking for housing improvements for 5 years, and Turbine has proven time and time again they have no interest in this. A shame, considering the potential for selling housing options and items in the store. Poor Berrieblossom will have to endure the gossip of her fellow hobbits over the poor condition of her living room for the forseeable future, I'm afraid.

I would love to have an update of the housing system. Placing objects more freely would already be great, but also maybe some activities in the neighborhoods.... - like: give us a reason and a possibility to get to know our neighbors. An idea: Player-made events in housing areas, with some sort of technical support ingame (like a tool to organize a treasure hunt, or a black board in the community center at which players can sign up for events or announce events) - whatever you can think of... A hole new field of activities opens up there...

Ah, I'd love any update to the housing area! Please do something with it, could be an awesome extra side feature of the actual game, something to spend time on while you are waiting for friends to log in or a raid to start... and suddenly it would matter where you live - or where your guildhouse is...

[QUOTE=Whart;6200083and Turbine has proven time and time again they have no interest in this. A shame.[/QUOTE]

Logged in to the forums just to /sign that as well. What an effort.

Meantime, after all the positive posts from the community voting for housing improvements, I flipped over my opinion and seriously wish they never do something of all the good ideas suggested with passion and innovation and a lot of TIME.

*ignorance shouldnt be paid out*

The saying in engl. "change of scene" translated to german could be adapted for housing again by changing the colors of the walls. However, in my case I do hope for a "change of scene" but I wont swear its meant in a positive way for Lotro.

Ferru

All houses should get another floor in my opinion. Perhaps charge us a onetime fee to buy the additional floor. There are so many housing items now it is really sad we can only display a small fraction even in home the size of a kinhouse.

Please increase house sizes or give us another floor of space!

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Woud love a more balanced ratio of hooks. Is it just me, or are there an 'awful' lot of small/large furniture items in the game, but very few wall. And yet walking into a house, what do you find ? Wall, wall, thin furniture, special furniture...

Would be nice to have more than 3 'special' furnitures in the game as well.

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Same as everyone here.
- please have the hooks moveable
- option to be able to put smaller sizes decoration into large area if player choose to
- purchasable store upgrade (for more additional hooks)
- crafting stations (attached to this request:crafting vendors/trainers in the housing neighborhood square) Also option to make the crafting stations superior (can be a store upgrade)

I don't need a bigger house just more options to decorate with what I have

To Turbine: people would spend oodles of money on decorating their houses. Playing other F2P this is one of the area that sells best in stores. Just my 2 cents...think about it.

I'd like my hobbit house to dig into the hill it is situated on. I'd love to decorate more and in a better way, and I'd love for the neighborhoods to have meaning.

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/drop [item]
/pickup [target]
/rotate yaw x
/rotate pitch x
/rotate roll x
/move forward x
/move backwards x
/move left x
/move right x
/move up x
/move down x
/savelayout room x
/restorelayout room x

This is what I was used to when I was spending time decorating my house in another MMO.
Of course all items were droppable and there were no hooks.

Originally Posted by Whart

/signed, as always

Berrieblossom was so excited to purchase her own home away from Ma's farm, and she picked a gorgeous location on top a hill with sunny orange flowers, a windmill, and a lovely view. Miss Berrie went inside to start decorating, and found a vast empty cavern with only a few furniture hooks for a living room. No way to put any chairs around her breakfast table--are her guests supposed to sit on the floor? What would the neighbours say? And every furniture hook so far from the ones nearby with no way to move them. How exactly does one sit in a comfy chair by the tea table and put one's feet up on a nice soft stuffed-warg footstool with a good book and a pipe? Hard times have fallen upon the Shire indeed!

But players have been asking for housing improvements for 5 years, and Turbine has proven time and time again they have no interest in this. A shame, considering the potential for selling housing options and items in the store. Poor Berrieblossom will have to endure the gossip of her fellow hobbits over the poor condition of her living room for the forseeable future, I'm afraid.

As a former 'coder' I can tell you that there is NO REASON that most of the items of furniture (whether wall or floor) could not be interchangeable. All it would take is 1 little click on each prototype to reset them to fit any space. Long benches are already slotted into large wall in the Prancing pony, as are scholars desk and chair and piles of logs
What I would like to see is the ability to place furniture where ever we want, instead of into a fixed 'slot' because doing the logical thing..ie moving the slots closer to each other so we don't have huge areas of vacant space.. WOULD be almost impossible. The only way it could be done is if everyone's furnishings were placed into a 'bag' and the housing slots revamped. Once this was done, the bag would set in the middle of the floor, like a housing chest, to be emptied and the house redecorated. Once empty, the 'bag' would be consumed. I would LOVE the oportunity to revamp the furniture slots in this game, unfortunately I only coded text based games, so have no idea how to do that in a video game. The current set up is stupid...

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Housing should have been fixed a LONG time ago. The devs really need to quit putting it off. Also, a new hobby needs to be added. I realize this game is mostly end-game PvE but I would like to see more little things like housing and also PvP updates.

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See the link in my sig for a few more ideas.

/Signed

I'm a newer player, and haven't even seen all of the festivals yet, let alone most of the outer areas, but already I'm nearly out of space for things I've gotten for my house. One of my housing chests is full to bursting with items I don't want to get rid of, and I've taken to redecorating my house each month, just so I can display and use the items I have now.

Once I make it to Moria and start getting items from there and beyond, I just don't know what I'll do with them all! I may have to roll an alt just to keep all of my housing gear!

One other addition I would add is that if someone's home has been abandoned for a reasonable amount of time, say three months or so, would there be a way for Turbine to send a quick yes/no form letter to their e-mail to see if they're planning to return, and if not, then foreclose on the abandoned house, so it's back on the market? I have an acquaintance in real life that bought the house next to mine, then quit playing and I'm tired of having an empty house for a neighbor. And the only reason I'm not in favour of just foreclosing without warning, is that some of those empty houses, I'm sure, belong to people who may be in military service and aren't in an area where they can play regularly, and I wouldn't want them to come back to find their houses gone.