Guild Wars 2

This isn’t a post about how useful Home Instance are or are not. This is about making them more useful while giving us a casual time-sinking activity while giving us reliable access to rarer cooking materials; thus killing a many birds with one stone.

I’d love it if every home instance had a garden node (featuring as many plants as other node farms) in which we could plant seeds (gold sink). I’d propose each plant generate a random ingredient, depending upon the type of seed planted: fruits, vegetables, roots vegetables, herbs, and regional seeds producing things found in specific regsions (like chili peppers from Ascalonian seeds or sesame seeds from Krtan seeds).

In my FFXI days I always had a full set of 10 pots/mule growing something. It wasn’t necessarily fun, but it was useful. I’d personally like something similar in this game.; especially since I’m always short on chili peppers.

Thoughts?

I agree that the Home instance could use something to make it feel more like “home”; as it is, it’s only a place you go to complete some personal story steps. After that, Lion’s Arc is your “home”.

The idea of growing your own garden is something I would find interesting.

Lol, not to knock your idea, I think it is neat, but it reminds me of what WoW did and makes me think overall of farmville.

But yeah, the “home” instances don’t feel like home to me. I never visit there unless I had to for a quest, and going back after I found out it specialized the area from your quest line I was well, a little underwhelmed. I wish there was more we could do with it.

Yeah. I have read about the gardens in WoW and it sounded interesting. Something to do just to waste some time and to get mats also. Maybe even be able to grow one of each type of tree, like a soft wood or ancient wood. You should be required to water/fertilize the plants in order to harvest within the next 24 hours.

This would give people a reason to go to their home instance and give them something do while there.

A hall of monuments style version of the home instance would be great.

Oh wait, Anet already said it would be ingame, then said it would be added shortly after release, then casually told us they weren’t even working on it.

Astral Projections.7320:

Yeah. I have read about the gardens in WoW and it sounded interesting. Something to do just to waste some time and to get mats also. Maybe even be able to grow one of each type of tree, like a soft wood or ancient wood. You should be required to water/fertilize the plants in order to harvest within the next 24 hours.

This would give people a reason to go to their home instance and give them something do while there.

I don’t know how WoW does it, but in FFXI is was simply a system that allowed us to plant seeds in pots we’d placed in our houses. It wasn’t much, but I’m sure AN could do much to expand it; making it both more visually pleasing and more interactive.

darkace.8925:

I’d love it if every home instance had a garden node (featuring as many plants as other node farms) in which we could plant seeds (gold sink). I’d propose each plant generate a random ingredient, depending upon the type of seed planted: fruits, vegetables, roots vegetables, herbs, and regional seeds producing things found in specific regsions (like chili peppers from Ascalonian seeds or sesame seeds from Krtan seeds).

In my FFXI days I always had a full set of 10 pots/mule growing something. It wasn’t necessarily fun, but it was useful. I’d personally like something similar in this game.; especially since I’m always short on chili peppers.

I freaking LOVED that you could customize your home in FFXI!!! I had a bed and everything! And the pots were super useful. I think there should definitely be more customization for your “home” instance! Yessss! Please do this!

For a “Home” instance how come I can’t have my own house in the game, Expansions (Massive Gold Sink) would be wonderful so that while you start with a modest house, it can eventually become your own personal castle if you wish. Each one of the different races houses would look different to follow the environment of your starting town.

Irena.1062:

For a “Home” instance how come I can’t have my own house in the game, Expansions (Massive Gold Sink) would be wonderful so that while you start with a modest house, it can eventually become your own personal castle if you wish. Each one of the different races houses would look different to follow the environment of your starting town.

I like these ideas; race-specific housing and a few different models in each home instance and the possibility of upgrades – maybe to go with your own stature among your people. Noble house for the hero of Shaemoor, mansion for the Pact Commander and eventually a castle or the likes.

I just want an Asura lab that I can customize heavily that doesn’t have my incompletely developed krewe wandering about aimlessly.