Dear Devs,
Hello again! As to keep this fairly simple and brief, I’m going to cut right to the chase and hope that this provides you with as much detail as possible.
As you’re aware, there is an entire roleplay community, spread over multiple servers, that have all been asking for one thing in particular. Chairs. Now, in an earlier discussion about this, it had been mentioned that chairs were difficult to add into the game (we’re talking about chairs we can sit on), due to the different seating portions. So I took some time to think about how this could be adjusted.
And I figured it out!
One of the biggest things that ArenaNet has to manage is their money. Any gaming company has to. The argument that players can just convert game gold to gems is still a valid one, but I’ll be the first to admit that even I’m lazy when something super cools comes out and I want it now.
Now, we’re already aware that NPCs have the ability to sit on things. That means, the code itself is in the game, it’s just not readily available to every player. So the idea, and solution?
Sell chairs on the trading post/gem store. Now, I know you’re not here to tend to just the RP community, and yes, this would be a huge but absolutely loved vanity for us. So I’ll speak for the PvE and PvP community as well. As someone who used to be a hardcore PvPer I can certainly vouch for the amount of, “LOL I BEAT YOU,” attitude that people have. Whipping out a chair and sitting it down on someone’s face after battle would provide entertainment for the winner, and a fussy-pout for the loser. For those who enjoy PvE? Well, they buy flutes and other vanities, don’t they?
That gets me into how it would work. The chair would be much like your flute, where it sits in your bag. You could use it in Town Clothing, or in Armor, and double click it. You would then have the option to sit on the chair. You could even add extra things in, like dance on the chair, or with the chair, depending on how many skills you’d like it to have.
Update:
When it comes to skills: You could add the five basic race seats (1-5), 6 could be sit/stop sitting, 7-9 would be vanity or empty, and then your exit.
Overall, you’d be gaining:
Gem sales
Happy consumers
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
~Mint.
(edited by Mint Rain.6798)