This post is to outline an intensive break down on how to introduce an entirely new, instanced housing system, while leaving the current one intact (at least for now).
How We Put it All Together
The Social Hub
The social hub will replace the idea of a neighbour area. This location will be tailor made to show off the unique beauty of each residential area, while also creating places that will encourage players to come to the hub for more than just accessing the house.
GPose Heaven: Create specific locations designed specifically to give players amazing gpose backgrounds or interactable pieces. Flower walls, succulent and cactus gardens, under water gardens, a plethora of colorful fish, fireflies that come out at a certain place at night, all could be glorious. And a fancy outdoor picnic area complete with canopies, and adorable tables and chairs, and even fancy seating with, perhaps, unique /sit and /rest options?
Unique Settings/Activities: Underwater sunbathing in a Limsa bubble? A large scale maze with jumping puzzles within to help orient yourself in the maze in Gridania? Dune surfing in Ul’dah? The sky is the limit! Though, I have some quick sketches and photoshops to demonstrate.
Basically, imagine if every City, instead of a Neighbourhood (times x number of wards) was essentially 1 zone like Lyhe Mheg; an amazing, contained expression of utter joy and creation. And...maybe we can have some new emotes inspired by these areas. Personally, I would love to cheekily lean out from behind a cactus, or have sunbathing options on interactable towels. What about “Shaded View” where you lift your hand and look up rather than peering about like with /lookout? Or some poses with our hands held in ways like we are cradling a flower, or a firefly? What about a dramatic hand-to-head faint? Or a victorian/edwardian style swoon?
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How We Put it All Together
The Social Hub
The social hub will replace the idea of a neighbour area. This location will be tailor made to show off the unique beauty of each residential area, while also creating places that will encourage players to come to the hub for more than just accessing the house.
GPose Heaven: Create specific locations designed specifically to give players amazing gpose backgrounds or interactable pieces. Flower walls, succulent and cactus gardens, under water gardens, a plethora of colorful fish, fireflies that come out at a certain place at night, all could be glorious. And a fancy outdoor picnic area complete with canopies, and adorable tables and chairs, and even fancy seating with, perhaps, unique /sit and /rest options?
Unique Settings/Activities: Underwater sunbathing in a Limsa bubble? A large scale maze with jumping puzzles within to help orient yourself in the maze in Gridania? Dune surfing in Ul’dah? The sky is the limit! Though, I have some quick sketches and photoshops to demonstrate.
Basically, imagine if every City, instead of a Neighbourhood (times x number of wards) was essentially 1 zone like Lyhe Mheg; an amazing, contained expression of utter joy and creation. And...maybe we can have some new emotes inspired by these areas. Personally, I would love to cheekily lean out from behind a cactus, or have sunbathing options on interactable towels. What about “Shaded View” where you lift your hand and look up rather than peering about like with /lookout? Or some poses with our hands held in ways like we are cradling a flower, or a firefly? What about a dramatic hand-to-head faint? Or a victorian/edwardian style swoon?
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