Guild Wars 2

…Or better Where do they spend their private life?

This question occured to me when I came to the human capital for the first time. It is pretty obvious where the humans live – in their houses. But in Metrica you can only see labs and such stuff. The only thing that comes close to a living complex is the Inquest-complex, but even there u dont see anything, that looks like private property.

Do they even have something like a private life? And even if not, they still they must sleep somewhere. I discussed this with a friend yesterday and we think that the lower part of the Rata Sum Cube could be something like their sleepingplace. Can anyone confirm this?

Genius never sleeps.

In all actuality I would assume that they usually fall asleep in there lab, or possibly while piloting a golem. As someone who has spent some time at the bottom of Rata Sum, I can assure you that it is inhospitable and not fit for residential living.

Honestly, the best guess is that they consider their labs their home. You see more private labs in Metrica Province (such as Oola’s), but overall it seems that the Asura operate in Krewes and don’t seem overly concerned with personal privacy — unless they’re working on something secret. Which leads me to believe that a private life for Asura just means anything that happens outside the lab (or even in it in their own time).

Asura sleep on floating hammocks. These ones were in my home instance, but I’ve seen them in many places.

This makes me wonder, if we Asuras do not hold much of personal privacy – and it seems we don’t – how does the resolution of conflicts or the establishing of relationships work.

This realization just made them a lot more alien.

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Asura sleep on floating hammocks. These ones were in my home instance, but I’ve seen them in many places.

You are laying in the wrong direction on that :P

Carighan.6758:

This makes me wonder, if we Asuras do not hold much of personal privacy – and it seems we don’t – how does the resolution of conflicts or the establishing of relationships work.

This realization just made them a lot more alien.

The Asura used to live underground. Which means that for most of the development of their technology and culture, cramped living conditions that don’t leave any room for privacy.

LittleZoe.4970:

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

Asura sleep on floating hammocks. These ones were in my home instance, but I’ve seen them in many places.

You are laying in the wrong direction on that :P

Trying to lie on it the other way round caused clipping.

I always assumed that a ‘krewe’ is kinda like a family unit even though they are probably unrelated by birth. Basically once you are old enough to get out on your own (could be as littlekitten years) You join a Krewe that is researching something you find interesting. And you just stay with that krewe until something happens.

Presumably Asura are beyond the whole ‘follow in your father’s footsteps’ thing. I also assume that the Krewe are a kind of communal living where all proceeds go to the living and maintenance of the lab. Therefore making personal wealth inconsequential compared to that of the krewe. That is why when your tech gets stolen your lab partner strait up tells you ’We should go murder that thieving SOB" it makes sense.

BTW anyone else notice that the Asura are actually a hyper-violent race. I know its a video game but when your machine gets stolen everyone’s first reaction is, “Lets go strait up gangsta on the other lab and murder everybody they ever loved”. and not, “Hey, maybe we should report this to the authorities?”. In the human story line you are at least working as an agent of the standing military authority. As a Charr you literally ARE a military commander. But as an Asura, you are a gang member rollin with a ‘Krewe’ and a loaded nine!

Presumably Asura are beyond the whole ‘follow in your father’s footsteps’ thing. I also assume that the Krewe are a kind of communal living where all proceeds go to the living and maintenance of the lab. Therefore making personal wealth inconsequential compared to that of the krewe. That is why when your tech gets stolen your lab partner strait up tells you ’We should go murder that thieving SOB" it makes sense.

Hm, I thought something similar, but this article is saying something different:

http://www.arena.net/blog/angel-mccoy-on-writing-asura

Also I overheard convos in Rata Sum like “XY-Krewe is looking for members with profound knowledge in statics” which sounds like it’s not sooooo much of a big deal to change krewe. But maybe the krewes are somehow like guilds or even gangs.

I see those floating hammocks everywhere in the Asura areas. They’re usually out of the way and not on the main level of labs. Usually I find them on top of buildings.

I’d type more about Asura sleeping habits (cuz they are my first love), but I’m warily watching a spider crawl around on my ceiling. I KNOW it’s waiting until I’m not paying attention…

Update: I smashed the little bugger. :|

I’ve found myself asking the same question.

From what I gather, an Asura’s lab is their home. Rata Sum lacks a real residential district because it is a densely packed and efficient city of progress. I assume most Asura do not live in Rata Sum, but commute there for commerce and to use it’s resources. There are countless land-based buildings all over Metrica and elsewhere in the world., and those are the labs I’d say Asura make their residence in.

Regarding krewes…
Krewes change all the time. They’re basically taskforces with specific goals in mind. Once they accomplish a task they may or may not break up and reform as part of another krewe. Likewise, a couple of Asura might like to stick together while they go between krewes. And some, like Snaff and Zojja, forgo krewes and work alone or with a single partner.

ChaosKirin.1328:

Update: I smashed the little bugger. :|

Meanie, thats not the Asuran Way. You should have taken out your house-hold-task-golem to do it. :p

Just joking (can’t edit to put some “^^” or so to make it clear)

LOL, the Asuran way would be to whip out my flamethrower and set it (and the rest of the house) on fire.

I agree with LEGION, the Asura seem really violent. As well as very competative and arrogant, which probably plays a part in their ‘do it your self with flamethrower’ approach to thefts.

I would think they dont sleep because that would be inefficient and a waste of valuable time. I would think they would have a house at least or hut to keep their clothes. After all they wear clothes, they need somewhere to put them.

They got a sleep-animation, thats why I think they have to sleep sometimes even if only in shifts in those floating hammocks and btw they are snoring quite loud even the females (at least mine does)

They should add the ability to have your own housing in this game and you can craft or even buy with gems, furniture and such. A little floating cube house maybe. I would want one. Take my money now!

That would be definitely awesome, but for the moment I found a house in Divinety’s Reach where noone lived and squated it)

On the very bottom level of Rata Sum, there is an NPC called “Hall Monitor”. He informs you that the Dorms are currently off limits for some reason. I forget why, though it is likely due to some quirky experiment gone wrong.

With this I believe there are “apartments” for different “grades” of Asura. These hammocks we see are likely the equivalent of keeping a bed in your office for those dire crunch times.

Further, it could be that sleeping is not something the designers saw fit to fully flesh out. This is the same reason we do not see the human outhouses or the asuran water closets.

Isn’t there an Asura in Rata Sum that talks about a friend of hers wanting her home for dinner but she has important work to do with her krewe so she’s wondering how to break it to her that she can’t come home.

I’m pretty sure there’s an npc that says that in Rata Sum, I think it’s at the top level. (Not the top level as in the council though, I’m not counting instanced levels)

I’ve always assumed that Asura lived in homes somewhere in the area surrounding Rata Sum (you can go to a few of those areas through asura gates) except they’re in the parts that we can’t access.

Langes.5074:

On the very bottom level of Rata Sum, there is an NPC called “Hall Monitor”. He informs you that the Dorms are currently off limits for some reason. I forget why, though it is likely due to some quirky experiment gone wrong.

With this I believe there are “apartments” for different “grades” of Asura. These hammocks we see are likely the equivalent of keeping a bed in your office for those dire crunch times.

Further, it could be that sleeping is not something the designers saw fit to fully flesh out. This is the same reason we do not see the human outhouses or the asuran water closets.

This fills me with hope that my little asura has at least a tiny room for herself in the corner of a lab or even in and around Rata Sum.

And don’t worry I do not expect to see Asura homes, it’s rather that I like to fill some gaps with ideas and speculations

Well, I can say that I still hope for a true Asuran home in the jungle (or floating), next to a waterfall, with an at-home lab. If they ever release an expansion with housing, I am sure the elite of Rata Sum have more than a dorm.

[Deed: Secret Volcano Lair]

[Deed: Floating Luxury Tower]

[Deed: Deep Sea Research Station] “Not Penny’s boat.”

Langes.5074:

[Deed: Secret Volcano Lair]

[Deed: Floating Luxury Tower]

[Deed: Deep Sea Research Station] “Not Penny’s boat.”

Don’t forget the moon base or space station.

In World Vs. World both will grant the Asuran player a unique elite skill that will let them fire a magical laser on their foes!

Pirlipat.2479:

ChaosKirin.1328:

Update: I smashed the little bugger. :|

Meanie, thats not the Asuran Way. You should have taken out your house-hold-task-golem to do it. :p

Or you should have done science to it to give yourself a giant spider minion.

Asura have nice little homes. They sleep in floating hammocks. You can find them in several places around Rata Sum and Metrica Province. Sometimes their sleeping and living quarters are way up on top of the buildings.

If you look at the map, the explorable part of Rata Sum is only about 1/27th of its actual volume, so there’s room there

If you go into your personal lab instance, there is a doorway at the top of one of the labs. Its up the stairs on the “building” that has the fountain and a female asura sitting next to a cat. If you look around that lab area, you can see some ramps going up to a door (sealed and most likely just wall for now). Perhaps someday, that will be “our” house in the lab? Here is a picture of the doorway: http://i.imgur.com/n4kyM.jpg

Asura have labs which in a way is a large complex that persists of:
1) Library
2) Work Station (lab)
3) Private Quarters
Best proof of this is the 2nd novel where the heroes place the big jora head on the invention and they go to snaffs private quarters to rest before heading out. Before their accession to the above land it doesn’t say or really allude to their houses. (when they lived under ground)

I know this is an old thread, but i stumbled upon it and i find this article interesting.

I always imagined the “houses” or places where the people live are there somewhere, you just don’t see them (on the first look), cause they’re not important for the game anyway. Go to the black citadel, you will see smiths, shops, taverns… where do the charr live? Well, in some buildings, they’re just not obvious. ;P

In the lower level of rata sum, i saw this “hall monitor” too. He said somethign about an experiment gone wrong in the showers, now all the aprrentices are glowing in the dark… Well, that doesn’t say something about houses, but it shows there is more we just dont see. As said, the explorable part of rata sum is just “the tip of the iceberg”, the lower levels just aren’t accessible.
Sure, there is this giant chasm beneath rata sum where they most probably came on the surface, but there is still plenty of room around it in this giant cube. What is in there, just bricks? I bet there are underground apartment-complexes.

Every starting area has this “second city zone”, with crafting stations. In Caledon it is the mabon market, in metrica it is Desider Atum. You can call them villages if you want. Desider atum is an plateau, you go up some stairs and on top are the traders and craft stations. But was is actually “in” the plateau? I bet there are apartments.

You get the drill.

The starting point in metrica is an complex called Soren Dra. I always see it as suburbia of Rata Sum. It is an giant complex, but not necessarily all labs. I got into an little room on the right and found a funny situation (one among lots of funny NPC situations in metrica):
Father, daughter and her boyfriend. He comes to take her to a date.
Father: “Have fun”
Daughter: “Oh, how nice of you!”
Father: “hehe, don’t thank me yet!” and he sends an golem after them, as chaperone

I don’t remember the interior of the room, but if it’s an actual living room or not, it shows something:
Like the Devs said (http://www.arena.net/blog/angel-mccoy-on-writing-asura), Asura are (beside their personality) just like Humans, they have relationships, sex, children and families. They have homes where their families live, children go to schools (remember the school-building in metrica? the “mother-jokes”? ) and don’t live in labs! It’s just the adult population which works there.

Bear in mind that this is an game, your main work as hero is frolicking through the terrain and kill bad beasts! Not watch the plebs live their boring lives in their homes.
These people have their homes somewhere they are just not obvious or accessibe, cause they’re not important for the gameplay. We, the heroes have better to do and so have the Devs.

In Hoelbrak and Divinitys Reach you see the homes of people, in the Grove, the black Citadel or Rata Sum they are just not as obvious. But you can bet they are somewhere.
Rata sum is one big building-complex, so the best bet would be apartment-complexes. Same for the suburbias Soren Dra or the smaller Desider Atum. Shouldn’t be a problem for asura, they evolved from underground!

I may be right on some points and wrong on other, but i think i made some good points. ^^ It’s still just a game! There’s not enough place and worktime for everything in there. Just use your imagination!
:)

I like the word. Underground-Apartments…

Maybe their living quarters are behind their labs… usually you’d hide the lab from visitors and be at your living/bedroom most of the time, for them it could be the other way around. If you enter an asura home only to walk into a laboratory, and the private sections are probably hidden from visitors. This is my guess…

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

The Asura used to live underground. Which means that for most of the development of their technology and culture, cramped living conditions that don’t leave any room for privacy.

This is a really good point. While the Asura’s technology makes some pretty spectacular things commonplace, I think we can safely assume that altering an underground space is “non-trivial”… especially in terms of the evolution/development of the species.

They have also pretty common beds. I don’t remember where I made this pic, was kinda long time ago

Looks like the Medic tent for the wounded refugees south of the Thaumanova Reactor in Metrica.
I think this are 2 of maybe 8-10 radiated/wounded asura that lay there.

FlashbackJon.9627:

Snoring Sleepwalker.9073:

The Asura used to live underground. Which means that for most of the development of their technology and culture, cramped living conditions that don’t leave any room for privacy.

This is a really good point. While the Asura’s technology makes some pretty spectacular things commonplace, I think we can safely assume that altering an underground space is “non-trivial”… especially in terms of the evolution/development of the species.

Well, what I find pretty interessting is that they built a floating cube as their main city with tree roots going through the whole building. It seems in a way like a floating copy of an underground building. And it seems that in this case they try to be as far away as possible from underground. Maybe because they are afraid of what is living beneath the surface now?

Btw I wont put a “This Answers My Question”-Tag on any answer because I think there is no right or wrong answer to this question and many of your ideas are pretty cool