Improving the Home Instance

Improving the Home Instance

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Posted by: yanipheonu.5798

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Housing itself can be a contentious issue, but we can at least agree the current implementation of the Home Instance could be improved.

With WildStar and Old Republic having more robust player homes, and WoW implementing Garrisons, and the tease of Heart of Thorns, it would nice to see something added to GW2 for competitions’ sake at least, if not necessarily the same way.

Of course Guild Halls are one solution, and we are likely to see this at some point. I’m looking specifically at the player-specific Home Instance, whether it be a full housing system or a more robust version of the areas we currently possess.

I would love to see a new level of cosmetic item specifically for home instances. After all, GW2 is a very cosmetic game. Maybe a new statue or something you can place, that sort of thing.

Function in some way would also improve the worth of the Home. Currently my main usage of the Home are the few resource nodes I’ve obtained. I wouldn’t necessarily say to have trading posts and such there, which is the fear of some that this would cut down of socializing that woul normally occur in the cities, though that said, that hasn’t stopped things like the Captain’s airship pass.

Having the home key into story may make more sense. Perhaps have the home area of the Pact Commander be a bit of a meeting place for supporters. Perhaps our homes get damaged in some terrorist attack, raising the stakes, necessitating repairs of home, or even moving our home instance to a camp closer to the jungle.

But some change to the Home Instance would be nice, especially with the potential of expansion or at least some large content drop in the future.

Honestly, as an Animal Crossing lover XD I’d be down for some robust homes complete with furniture and trophies of past exploits adorning the walls. I’d love to see stuff like achievements and story completion result in bobbles and plaques in your home, giving a “physical” aspect to those achievements.

But others are less enthused on the idea of homes. But at the very least, the current implementation of the Home Instance could use some changes. What do you think?

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Posted by: Pockets.3201

Pockets.3201

I do like how we are, by storyline, heroes several times over, but hobos in our home instance. When hitting the nodes in my instance I’m not tending to stuff on my property, I,m chopping down trees in the park and swiping someone’s laundry off the nearby drying rack.

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Posted by: CureForLiving.5360

CureForLiving.5360

It’s not exactly the same but we’ll most likely get Guild Halls before proper Housing.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/cdi/CDI-Guilds-Guild-Halls

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

I do like how we are, by storyline, heroes several times over, but hobos in our home instance. When hitting the nodes in my instance I’m not tending to stuff on my property, I,m chopping down trees in the park and swiping someone’s laundry off the nearby drying rack.

Reported for vagrancy, theft and destruction of public property.

(J/k)

It would be nice to have some sort of home/display place but I’m not putting any hopes this game will do that.

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Posted by: Bunnikk.2146

Bunnikk.2146

Anet gives us really cool little items like the Zepherite airship model and Scarlet’s journal but we don’t have anywhere to put these cool little treasures. So instead of displaying them in my home or a Hall of Monuments they sit on a character that has dedicated her life to being my “trophy collector”.

But I agree the home instance needs to be a place where I do more than steal the orphans’ candy and presents from their tree I hid across the block (because I am apparently the horrible kind of person who steals their ornaments and when they give me their tree I don’t put it where they can access it. )

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