Housing limitations

[tufy123]

They need to fix decor acquisition stat, otherwise the entire feature is dead in the water. Nobody in their right mind is gonna wanna do old professions or grind decade-old reputations for weeks upon weeks just for the privilege of being allowed to purchase a piece of decor with equally out-of-date legacy currencies. This is currently the biggest issue with housing, everything else is secondary.

I was doing WoD stuff for weeks because I wanted enough currency to buy all the Draenei items I wanted. It‘s no different than running old content to get mounts or transmog.

[ercarp]

I was doing WoD stuff for weeks because I wanted enough currency to buy all the Draenei items I wanted. It‘s no different than running old content to get mounts or transmog.

Congrats on the wasted time, I guess. I'll pick them up for a fraction of the time and cost a year or two from now once they come to their senses (maybe, hopefully).

[rrayy]

They need to fix decor acquisition stat, otherwise the entire feature is dead in the water. Nobody in their right mind is gonna wanna do old professions or grind decade-old reputations for weeks upon weeks just for the privilege of being allowed to purchase a piece of decor with equally out-of-date legacy currencies. This is currently the biggest issue with housing, everything else is secondary.

Most people are literally sitting on 1,000's of each currency with no way to use them. Most every one has reputations to exalted already on at least one toon. This is not an issue with housing.

[Mojo03]

Exterior limits are way too low
No lights/fire outside is dumb
Not being able to raise ceilings
No real windows
No real staircases (though I've learned you can kinda do staircases, though it's tedious)
Can't tell what at item is called once you've put it down
Doesn't tell you where to get items in UI and there are 8,000 different vendors/drop locations
Decor UI is way too small and can't even tell what item looks like half the time
All rep and currency not being account wide over a year after TWW is now annoying with trying to get housing stuff
No plot lines on exterior, just randomly cant put stuff in spots
Lumber system is absolute dogshit and for some reason we can't trade wood in a world full of trees of all things???
Having to visit every trainer on each xpac with each profession is also crazy

[baskev]

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first my reaction to your points:

1.) yeah kinda. but i think it might grow in the future. If i look at what i still have around my plot. it could "grow" bigger.
And yes, its very stupid you can not really see your plot size. you not to do fence etc tricks to see it.

2.) yes and no. I think thats something they need to look at. They have had a very limited time to test what people like. So if enough people want this i see this happen.

3.) yup i agree with you on this one.

4.) .....not really a problem. Have you seen how big you can already make it at the start. Man if they keep adding rooms by it, it will no longer be a house but a city. lets say 5 large octagon rooms and you are already bigger as the that lightforged space ship :S


my points to add

- basic set. I do not like that you have to buy every basic set 10 times over to get 10 of them. I think the most common items should be, buy 1, get all free. That all green, blue and purple items are buy 1, get 1. Is okay.
But those basic things like a cobblestone road or fence is kinda silly. just give those to us when we buy them.

- sad there are so few interact items (to sit on, lie on etc). or proffesion work benches

- standard light inside a house is to bright.

- and....ffs...no problem traveling around to get items. kinda fun. But those proffesion ones...making us visit all trainers....sigh..... must say i do like my hot tub


but i see them adding most of the things i want/like so see. I think its a very good start.

[Vonazak]

I have all reps, I can craft items for most of my friends. It's an mmo, instead of complaining in a forum farm items, make friends, play the game.

[damonskye]

I think we need to have mail boxes. IRL every house has a mail box, but not our in game houses for some reason.

There is a Gilnean mailbox able to be made with Cataclysm inscription.

[Stickiler]

Exterior limits are way too low
No lights/fire outside is dumb

Both of these are due to performance issues. Excessive outside customization, especially in a full neighbourhood, makes the game chug unbelievably hard. You used to be able to put lights outside, but it broke everything.

They're actively working on it though, so I'd expect those restrictions to relax in a year or two.

[Farsal]

I think we need to have mail boxes. IRL every house has a mail box, but not our in game houses for some reason.

I agree we definitely need to have a mailbox.

[Geckoo]

The exterior limit is my biggest issue. the budget is too low considering how big the plot is and how tiny the actual house is. You can still make something cool sure, but at least in my experience, not to the extent i would love to.

[Hitei]

The exterior limit is my biggest issue. the budget is too low considering how big the plot is and how tiny the actual house is. You can still make something cool sure, but at least in my experience, not to the extent i would love to.

The exterior limit is likely to be bumped, although I think people insisting it needs to be 2-3 times the number are being a bit silly. Just an extra 50 or so would be great.

The houses are small because these are the small houses. There are theoretically also two additional house sizes that will eventually be added.

[czarek]

Im like between "ok and i dont care" Nothin special for me at all. Just builded simple house and fly away. I think im not a big fan of things like this.