Thread: Housing FAQ

Its still available, yes, although the questgiver that boosts you to 50 is not, so you have to be slightly creative in attaining the cash for the larger house.

Originally Posted by praetorian6

I bought that house, lol. It was 7g 700s and 82s 50c

Thanks! That one was sold out every time I checked, lol.

Originally Posted by WiseGamgi

I've just been told that she's buying her own house lol, she doesn't want my **** all over the floor

Clean up your hookpoints!

Just wanted to thanks for compiling. It's very helpful!!

-Adri

I've uploaded a little flash map of the Elf homesteads using Greyshot's housing cost list. Hope it's useful.

is the upkeep prices listed in weeks or months?

Originally Posted by Will.

Yeah, if you can only have 1 house per account then it sorta belongs to all your characters, right?

Wait a sec, what if you have characters on different servers? Still only 1 house?

Not that bad . It's one house per subscription/per server.

Originally Posted by Hayoo

I've uploaded a little flash map of the Elf homesteads using Greyshot's housing cost list. Hope it's useful.

Nice job man, it was hard to picture this w/o the map.

Originally Posted by jhan75

is the upkeep prices listed in weeks or months?

Per Week

Originally Posted by sparl

Nice job man, it was hard to picture this w/o the map.

Thanks

Bree-lands Housing Flash Map uploaded.


*Note: There is a discrepancy on the preview server between the Instance layout and the radar map image, namely with #3 and #5 Long Street. The mailbox locations on the mini-map indicate the proper location of these houses, but the house images themselves did not match the terrain. I have tried to make a more true-to-life rendering of the area. When the actual radar map is released, the flash map will be updated.

Am I correct in assuming that the weekly maintenance is due 7 days after the purchase of the house (i.e. the first week is included in the purchase price) or is the fee due immediately upon purchase?

Originally Posted by Valinus

Am I correct in assuming that the weekly maintenance is due 7 days after the purchase of the house (i.e. the first week is included in the purchase price) or is the fee due immediately upon purchase?

When I bought my home it came with 1 month prepaid in maintenance fees.

Can anyone confirm what level your char has to be to buy a house? is it 15 or 10?

I am asking because I just read and article on IGN - http://pc.ign.com/articles/827/827119p1.html (pg. 2) where they state the level is 10.

Also mentioned is players getting a discount from vendors for being a resident of that area. This is also something new, right?

Level 15 on Roheryn, as listed in the requirements at the broker. No idea about neighborhood vendor discounts, there are barely any vendors at the moment anyway...

I have only checked out 1 standard elf house, 1 standard man house, and 1 elf kin house.

So my question is...how many floor plans are there? Are all the elf standard houses them same? etc...

Originally Posted by haplo88

I have only checked out 1 standard elf house, 1 standard man house, and 1 elf kin house.

So my question is...how many floor plans are there? Are all the elf standard houses them same? etc...

Yes, the floor plan is the same for all.

Ok...thanks...so the only reason to try and get a certain address is for vanity reasons...


From my limited time messing with it, seems like a great implementation of housing. Can't wait for it to go live.

Here is a 6mb JPEG of the Lorebook Map. Warning for dial-up, it's a big file.

I have added the Homestead zones for Man, Elf, and Hobbit so everyone can get a nice overview of the distances and placement. The Dwarf zone will be added once we can get back in there.

Enjoy.

As of the update to Roheryn this afternoon, housing upkeep costs have gone up:

Standard: 1g, 50s upkeep
Deluxe: 7g, 150s upkeep
Kinship: 15g, 300s upkeep

Ok...so for the same lack of real fuctionality we pay MORE?

Originally Posted by Agenor3k

As of the update to Roheryn this afternoon, housing upkeep costs have gone up:

Standard: 1g, 50s upkeep
Deluxe: 7g, 150s upkeep
Kinship: 15g, 300s upkeep

I hope you mean:

Standard: 1g cost; 50s upkeep
Deluxe: 7g cost; 150s upkeep
Kinship: 15g cost; 300s upkeep

Because 15g 300s a week is a little steep.

Originally Posted by Valinus

I hope you mean:

Standard: 1g cost; 50s upkeep
Deluxe: 7g cost; 150s upkeep
Kinship: 15g cost; 300s upkeep

Because 15g 300s a week is a little steep.

Absolutely correct. Sorry for the confusion.

Originally Posted by Invincible12

Ok...so for the same lack of real fuctionality we pay MORE?

That depends on the assumption that what was on the preview server was an initial base price that was later raised. It could have been lowered specifically for the Open House test and raised back up for all we know.

When they are handing out 10 Gold to test I doubt they would waste the time to lower upkeep and then raise it again since doing so is pretty much a waste of time. You could buy a Tier 2, way your full upkeep and still have money left over to fully decorate with the items we had.

Just to clarify, are the housing neighborhoods race restricted? Could my dwarf buy a house in the Shire? Because I've grown fond of those funny little people and it's where I do most of my cooking - a very important thing indeed!

No....you can own a House in any neighborhood

The spike in upkeep puts a different slant on things. For small kinships like ours the upkeep is going to be the killer. The cost of the additional chests are completely out of our reach at present.

I have recommended to my kinsmen that we re-evaluate our need for a full-fledged kinship at this time. A Tier 2 would suit our purposes for right now as a meeting and gathering place.

Updated upkeep prices

Ok, it says that you can only have one personal house per sever.....does that mean that even though I have 5 characters I can still only have one house. I have a hobbit, elf, man, and dwarf character. Will I be able to buy a house for each of them????

Originally Posted by ravhawk

Ok, it says that you can only have one personal house per sever.....does that mean that even though I have 5 characters I can still only have one house. I have a hobbit, elf, man, and dwarf character. Will I be able to buy a house for each of them????

One house per server means exactly what is says. Only one of your characters on any given server can buy a house.

The old upkeep prices were reasonable, these figures are too high to make housing enjoyable for a player like me. I guess the increase MAY be justified for guild housing, but not for T1 and T2 personal housing.

Also, I should be able to pay ahead of time for my fees as much as I want.

Tier 1 costs haven't increased, just the upkeep for Tier 2 and kinship houses. Tier 1 is still 50s.

I have a couple of questions:

1) Do you get a racial discount if you buy a house in an area of your race - e.g., Human Captain buying near Bree?

2) Do your bonuses stack for discounts - e.g., kinship bonus and resident bonus?

As a side-note, is it pragmatically worth it to pay 50+ silver upkeep per week, for a mere 10% discount (especially for casual players)?

Originally Posted by More

1) Do you get a racial discount if you buy a house in an area of your race - e.g., Human Captain buying near Bree?

I don't think so. At least I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere.

Originally Posted by More

2) Do your bonuses stack for discounts - e.g., kinship bonus and resident bonus?

I believe they are supposed to, but it isn't working properly at the moment. (And no, your kinship house & personal house do not have to be in the same exact neighborhood, just the same racial type of neighborhood.)

Originally Posted by More

As a side-note, is it pragmatically worth it to pay 50+ silver upkeep per week, for a mere 10% discount (especially for casual players)?

Probably not, but after all: What's pragmatic about paying $10-15 a month (or a $200 one-time fee) to play a game?

Uploaded Dwarf Homestead flash map.

Updated Elf and Bree homesteads with current prices.

Originally Posted by More

As a side-note, is it pragmatically worth it to pay 50+ silver upkeep per week, for a mere 10% discount (especially for casual players)?

Also consider the amount you save in mailing items and resources between your characters.

I have a question... are trial accounts barred from buying houses? I hope so, because what's to stop someone from making a trial account, buying a house, and giving all permissions to characters on a real account?

Originally Posted by Thanatos

I have a question... are trial accounts barred from buying houses? I hope so, because what's to stop someone from making a trial account, buying a house, and giving all permissions to characters on a real account?

Hadn't thought of that. Wonder if the devs did. I hope so.

It would be a very busy week for whoever tried it, though. You'd have to earn the money strictly from quest rewards and vendoring everything you pick up, since trial accounts can't trade or use the mail or AH.

Oh, and Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! to whoever moved this thread over from the Roheryn forum! And all without breaking my link in this thread! /cheer

Originally Posted by ArmyAunt

Hadn't thought of that. Wonder if the devs did. I hope so.

It would be a very busy week for whoever tried it, though. You'd have to earn the money strictly from quest rewards and vendoring everything you pick up, since trial accounts can't trade or use the mail or AH.

Oh, and Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! to whoever moved this thread over from the Roheryn forum! And all without breaking my link in this thread! /cheer

Having to earn all the money on the trial character is a pretty good barrier to abusing it for the majority of players, I suppose, but it would be better to just have trial accounts ineligible to buy houses. It wouldn't be terribly hard to beat the system with enough effort or creative thinking put to ill use. Are trial accounts barred from using housing chests if someone set permissions to allow them?

Originally Posted by andulinde

Isil, he means that you can't rotate the decorations in space, e.g. turn a chair or a table 90degrees, etc.

I would like to see this - I would also like to see the chairs be actually sit-in-able (like they were in the town square stage area), and for there to be table-and-chairs furniture options. Kinda weird to have to put a table over here by itself in one corner, and a lonely chair over in another corner, etc.

Table and Chairs as one piece of furniture, and being able to place items (food/flowers, etc) ON the tables would be cool

Shire Homesteads Flash Map has been uploaded.

Better late than never.