Guild Wars 2

i think that this was bad from the start nobody goes there ever its not fun like housing sistem what is their point they where bad implemented discussion for this pls

Gele.2048:

i think that this was bad from the start nobody goes there ever its not fun like housing sistem what is their point they where bad implemented discussion for this pls

I wish they’d add a housing (W/ the option to design) system in the home instance

Although, I kind of go to the home instance every now and then to check out with the NPCs that are present from the choices I made It feels immersive and rp-ish

Home instance? What the heck are you guys talking about?

LinkR.6190:

Home instance? What the heck are you guys talking about?

Technically you have a home in GW2, it’s pretty much just an unfinished project at the moment. Lots of empty space. Unless you’re a Sylvari, then you have a lot of strange people loitering around your home instance.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Home_instance

LinkR.6190:

Home instance? What the heck are you guys talking about?

There is a zone point in each racial city that when viewed on the map has HOME in quotes below its name, that is your personal home instance. In the BWE’s there was more interaction with them and more changes inside of them based on your decisions during the completion of your personal story.

Now they are just used as a back drop during your personal story and they will have some of the NPC’s you have saved or worked with in them as you complete the story. That is it in a nut shell, nothing overly drawing you back to it other than to see the NPC’s you helped along the way. They do not do anything special o interact differently than the other NPC’s at that point but it is a neat bit to celebrate your triumphs while in Tyria.

It’s clearly largely unfinished.

I miss guild halls.

I like the home instance

The home instance was one of those cornerstones of game design that people took an immediate interest in. It’s description made it sound quite inventive. Somewhere along the way though, the idea died and it became a bit of a joke. Almost none of the plans we’d heard about ended up being implemented and it become nothing more than a place you had to go to a couple of times as part of your personal story. It really didn’t change according to your actions at all, and nothing about it reflected the uniqueness of each character.

Sadly, people with a Hall of Monuments tend to find it a more personalized experience than their home instance, and the HoM was dedicated to a player in a different game, who has been dead for more than two centuries. This makes the home instance a rather significant failure.

Maybe they’ll do something with it in a couple of years.

I would love to see this fleshed out. It had such promise but it fell away..
we can have player housing in the home instance and it would be awesome if the instance actually reflected our story.. there is so much possibility there.

I was just wondering about this on Saturday night while 100%ing Black Citidel. I wasn’t in BWE so I didn’t know there was actually stuff going on in them at one point, but I was thinking it’s kind of silly to have to instance in to a part of the city that’s really no different than the rest.

rizzo.1079:

I was just wondering about this on Saturday night while 100%ing Black Citidel. I wasn’t in BWE so I didn’t know there was actually stuff going on in them at one point, but I was thinking it’s kind of silly to have to instance in to a part of the city that’s really no different than the rest.

The only thing different in the BWEs really was that you collected seeds to make dyes, and gave them to an NPC in your home instance to grow them. And you had to come back the next day to collect the dye.

Needless to say, that didn’t survive long in the beta. I don’t think it even made it to BWE2.

It’s an amazing idea that has led to an amazingly sterile place. I have at least one of each race, gone into the home instance for each, and there is nothing there to hold your interest for longer than a few minutes. You can’t customize it in any way. Can’t add NPCs to it like you could to Guild Wars 1 guild halls. Can’t waypoint to it for free from anywhere in the world, which at least would give you SOME reason to go there. Can’t interact with it. All you can do is wander around and look at it. It’s heart is hollow and it has no “soul”.

Maybe if they made it into this games equivalent of the Hall of Monuments.
1) store (and show off) armor and weapon skins with mannequins there that you could reuse as you wants.
2) store amor and weapon stats there so you could switch builds/stats without carrying multiple sets in your inventory
3) have a place to show off your minipets
4) have a way to place statues to show off the titles you earned. If you have dungeon master for example, you get a statue commemorating this which you could place there.
5) store and show off your town clothing and costumes/armor/weapons you got from the gem store.
6) have an inscribeable place where you could tell about your character that you could update at will.

TL:DR
It needs to have something that personalizes the instance to you. Things you can take people to and they can look at or you can look at and remember, I did that.

I must say if my googling is any indication ANet was always rather mute on the importance of home instances, what little I found was technically accurate and appears in game, but I think the big problem was more a matter of the playerbase over hyping them and ANet not calming said hype. But that said I really don’t like the implementation of the hope instance, it doesn’t feel particularly home-y, or more accurately I don’t feel it accurately reflects my character. Probably because I don’t have much direct capacity to affect how it looks and feels.

Home Instance is very unfinished. Also, i would take a Guild Hall way before more home instance stuff

The most strange thing in my home instance are the NPCs that hang around there. Maybe I’m really oblivious but there are some who I’ve never seen before. oO It might be that some did appear in my personal story but I think I had so few interaction with them that I never became really familiar with them. Some of them I know by name at least, but what are they doing in MY place? oO

Home instances are, in my opinion, a complete waste of time. They could have been a nice addition to the game, but the execution of whatever concept they originally had for home instances fell very flat.

Pirlipat.2479:

The most strange thing in my home instance are the NPCs that hang around there. Maybe I’m really oblivious but there are some who I’ve never seen before. oO It might be that some did appear in my personal story but I think I had so few interaction with them that I never became really familiar with them. Some of them I know by name at least, but what are they doing in MY place? oO

They are stalking you and now they know where your home is. Be afraid, be very afraid. :P

sigh seems like I got to go to the arcane council to get an injunction to get them out. Oh wait, they don’t like me anymore since that incident with the golems. My home got squatted.

Apparently actual player housing is on the drawing board for future updates. It’s still quite a ways away though, I’d imagine.

things that would make the home instance better:

travel to and from is free from anywhere, or a simple flat rate not based on distance.
contains trading post, bank, guild storage, merchants, armor / weapon vendors and various karma merchants.
vendors in the area that represent your advancement in your respective crafting discipline, race, profession, story choices and so on.
rename them Guild Halls.