Re: What Happened to Player Owned Housing?
This allows players to express their creativity without having it severely impacting your world. We allow players to set their house to Open which can mean that a lot of the rest of the world can venture inward.
I find it pretty interesting that housing seems to be a major part of design for MU*s still, but it seems to have been dropped by some of the big graphical games. I know the older ones had it: UO, AO, DAoC, and FFXI. WoW, LoTRO, and WAR all released without player housing. Glad to hear that LoTRO added it.
Our housing system is pretty open ended which, of course, allows for player abuse, but the players themselves help police it pretty heavily. We still get the mystical forests in the middle of the city, but it's hard to fault players for wanting it to design their own little place on the mud.
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