Hello,
First of all i would like to thanks Anet team for amazing work they are doing. Im playing GW2 since the beggining and i dont regret any second spent in game.
Second i was wandering about what can improve the role playing aspect in the game (im a big RPG fan) and give a better opportunity to identify with your character. I read at some forums that in future updates there is a plan for adding housing system. In my opinion its a great idea and i thought about it a lot. These are my suggestions:
1. OVERVIEW
The neighberhoods should be implemented in form of instances. It will give all the players to have their own unique house and i believe it will not “overload” the game that much.
2. LOCATIONS
Neigberhoods should be available in every major city in two types: urban and at coutryside. It will allow players to choose which envirement they prefer.
3. UPGRADING
There could be developed a new system (similar to guild upgrades) which will allow to upgrade our household in different ways. For example basic house will include empty room or two and throu the upgrading system we can build 3-4 or even additional floor. It also can give upgrades like additional storage room or crafting spots (anvil, workbench etc.) or special objects like fireplace or pantry, armory etc.
4. PROFFESIONS
This system can improve basic proffesions also giving them new crafting recepies for crafting home objects. These are few examples i thought about:
- armorsmith
mannequin for armor storage, dedicated furniture*, crafting wall ornaments etc
- huntsman
creating trophys, dedicated furniture
- leatherworker
skinning and preparing animal skins as a trophy, dedicated furniture
- weaponsmith
some sort of weapon rack, dedicated furniture, decorative weapons to haang on wall
- tailor
carpeting, hangings, tapestrys, dedicated furniture
- cook
thought about something related to gardening so making seedlings or growing plans or trees which can be udes as an ingridient or can be sold in ah also making dedicated furniture. (The grown plants and trees can be putted outside our house to enhance its beauty even more)
- jeweler
dedicated furniture, creating decorative objects (statues, lamps etc)
- artificer
dedicated furniture, small storage boxes
*individual type of furniture for each proffesion
5. THROPHY SYSTEM
Above i mentioned making thropys. How it could work in game? My suggestion is to create some rare drop ingridiens from World Events or World bosses and dungeon bosses. Also good thing would be the commoner drops from average mobs for “low level” trophys. With those ingridiens the specyfy profesion can make trhropys to put/hang in our house. It would allow to see our acheivments in their full glory (“scale of shatterer” on the walll;)) not only in game statistics.
6. TECHNICALS
So after we bought our house we would like to show it to our firends. There could be added a system which will allow giving our friend permition to entering our house.
There should be also added NPC or system which allow to personalyze our house which includes wall colour etc.
I think interesting would be gradation house system. So for example in one neiberhood there will be 4 cheap houses 5 middle standard houses and 3 most expensive mansions. It will allow players chose the place best for their pocket.
7. GUILD HOUSES
Along with housing system there can be also implemet guild house sytem based on the same rules as housing althou in bigger scale :)
I hope i didn’t made you bored. Im an devoted GW2 fan and those are my suggestions which may help you in the future process of developing the game:) Im looking forward for constructive riticism.
Best regards
(edited by ciek.1963)