there is an idea i have behind how Instanced Housing can be done without putting heavy load on the server and doesn't sacrifice outdoor furnishing and allows everyone to have a house with any size.
I used to play this game called Trove, and what they do with "instanced housing" there, is your character have a house that you can put on any plot, and it will stay there until the instance got reset or you relocate the house.
so with this, my idea was to make the house bound to your character, and make the ward becomes an instance. You will have 3 exterior size: S, M and L. Then, You can put your house on any plot available, and depending on what plot you put your house, that size and its outdoor furnishing will get reflected. The interior will be that tartarus housing that will be implemented.
Every month, all of the ward will reset, and you will need to put your house again. This will refresh your neighbourhood. You can make a new instance or join one. This will also make it easier to make a specific theme for each month with your community, which what Gaia and Elemental does every summer.
There is also FC ward, where FC can have their own ward, and the members can relocate their houses there. FC ward will not reset, but in order to have this ward you will need at least several active members on your FC (let's say 30 active members.) Inactive members will have their house removed from your FC ward (only if your FC has more than 60 active members) but your house won't disappear when you come back: it's just won't be on your FC ward, you can put it back on other instances. FC ward will disappear when the FC disbanded.
Now you must be wondering, how about housing addresses? we still use that, but now you can search for specific houses based on the owner' character name, plot name, description, and tags. They did this with PF recently so i'm hoping they can do this too for housing search.
This way, everyone has a house, wards are instanced, easier to make ward themes with your community and FC, and the server load will not get tanked by constantly having too many wards.
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I used to play this game called Trove, and what they do with "instanced housing" there, is your character have a house that you can put on any plot, and it will stay there until the instance got reset or you relocate the house.
so with this, my idea was to make the house bound to your character, and make the ward becomes an instance. You will have 3 exterior size: S, M and L. Then, You can put your house on any plot available, and depending on what plot you put your house, that size and its outdoor furnishing will get reflected. The interior will be that tartarus housing that will be implemented.
Every month, all of the ward will reset, and you will need to put your house again. This will refresh your neighbourhood. You can make a new instance or join one. This will also make it easier to make a specific theme for each month with your community, which what Gaia and Elemental does every summer.
There is also FC ward, where FC can have their own ward, and the members can relocate their houses there. FC ward will not reset, but in order to have this ward you will need at least several active members on your FC (let's say 30 active members.) Inactive members will have their house removed from your FC ward (only if your FC has more than 60 active members) but your house won't disappear when you come back: it's just won't be on your FC ward, you can put it back on other instances. FC ward will disappear when the FC disbanded.
Now you must be wondering, how about housing addresses? we still use that, but now you can search for specific houses based on the owner' character name, plot name, description, and tags. They did this with PF recently so i'm hoping they can do this too for housing search.
This way, everyone has a house, wards are instanced, easier to make ward themes with your community and FC, and the server load will not get tanked by constantly having too many wards.
Continue reading...