Decorating your custom JP

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Posted by: Birman.1705

Birman.1705

I’d like this post to serve multiple purposes.
First off, I’d like to make a request to Arena Net to remove all unnecessary invisible walls in the guild halls. Isn’t guild hall suppose to be an open area? If you want to restrict players from going somewhere, put proper walls/columns/doors or whatever. Using invisible wall is like the lazy way of doing it and also restrictive to free creation. I guess some players don’t really mind, but for those that explore every inch of their guild hall, I believe it would be a nice change.
Second, could we perhaps get the ability to place decorations straight in the air? Since it’s technically possible already anyway, it would certainly make things easier not having to build some odd towers at first and then carefully removing items from below. I imagine that having floating chairs and statuses is weird, but wasn’t your goal to give us free hands in decorating our halls? The reason why this would be great is basically explained in the title and in the following video. (Also, surrealism is a thing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP5wvB4ZeGw
(Quite several invisible walls prevented a smooth building, so they needed to be bypassed. I labeled a couple of annoying/apparent ones)

In addition, I’d like to call all of the players out there to share your/your guildie’s/your friends creations! I know there are more custom JPs out there – small or big, easy or hard, show your creativeness and maybe we can get Anet to make better tools for us. The concept of building JPs has a lot of potential in my opinion and is a nice pace change to the gameplay, offering a completely new mechanic. I only hope we get to use even more decorations – new shapes, sizes, objects, items etc… animals? We already have skritts we can kick – why not make a skritt roll like a ball and voila – we have a ball game. Or a quaggan, because they are more round-shaped. We shall call it Quagganball. . Ideally some great custom events could be hosted like this. Just throwing ideas.

Oh right, could we please get cheaper decorations please? The prices are quite ridiculous right now.
This might go to deaf ears, because the devs are busy fixing PvP and other various mechanics in the game (hope dies last!), but at least it’s worth a shot and maybe even gets added to the “we will consider it” list.

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Posted by: DaShi.1368

DaShi.1368

What’s the point? Jumping puzzles are trivialized in guild halls because of gliding.

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Posted by: Birman.1705

Birman.1705

Yeah, that’s the spirit.. lol.
Then make one that isn’t.

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Posted by: Donari.5237

Donari.5237

Heh, DaShi is referencing another current conversation with that line.

About your request for cheaper decorations: Yes, please. Except I’d almost rather they keep the current costs if they need the mats sink but convert the Storage to a wardrobe skin system so you only have to make one chair and then you can put as many down as you want up to the hall item limit. Maybe have some basic cost akin to transmutation charges for placement, and guild members can donate charges to the hall or else need to spend their personal charge stash to decorate. But not this ridiculous, ludicrous overspending per item.

My fervent hope is that if/when we get personal housing it uses a skin system instead of ruinous costs per each thing of a type made.

edit: For guilds that already made a zillion expensive things, there should be some sort of compensation if the system changes, much as there was for players with multiple sets of the same town clothes when the Wardrobe system was deployed.