@Ynthia: I believe that in City of Heroes, one superteam could assault another superteam’s base, but I would think this type of activity should be limited to PvP servers or PvE with consent by both parties. Thank you for the kind words and for taking a moment to comment.

I am new to WoW and your site, which by the way is awesome and so helpful. I love being Druid. I play a Druid on my other games as well. I normally play Spellforce and Diablo (non on-line fantasy games).

Thanks for all the cool info and thoughts. U R the GREATEST!

But it did not get nearly the interest your home idea got.

I love the home idea. I think they should be used for additional storage. After all, a home would only have one access point, unlike banks that have braches in both Azeroth and Outland.

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In Asheron’s Call (no, I’m not old as long as I’m young in spirit) the player houses were quite intrusive and ended up cluttering the free space about everywhere. About when I quit playing, portals to instanced apartments housing were created, but houses for the richest/highest level players remained for everyone to lag onto. They existed in such a number that they were for me an obstacle to the necessary feel of being estranged in the game: houses near a spawn point of whatever, especially if it was something high level, say a diamond golem just didn’t feel right.
I did have a house, to which decorations could be added. It was possible to display boss parts that you didn’t use as armor anymore. But… everybody had them and displayed pretty much the same. That might be blamed on lack of content, although for AC, lack of content wasn’t an issue.

In Anarchy Online, houses were intanced but they lacked any exterior. They were not intrusive because the portals were set behind doors in already existing cities.
Now, well, there’s not much point having one if nobody is to see how your house looks like. Frivolous yes, no doubt, but that’s for the very same reason so many druids would like their armor to show in forms one way or other.
The kind of housing you’re capable of achieving needs somehow to reflect your in-game status (or the one you perceive you should have).

The way Phae exposes it might solve some of my concerns.
I’d add that one would need to be able to set which instance ID he wants his house to occupy, or at least players would have to be able to select their house to be in the same instance as a guild mansion.

Oh totally. That’s why I said maybe three to five a week. And rep-style houses would be awesome! For instance, certain night elves or dragon-y places (caverns of time, perhaps?) could unlock a japanese style house… or something. xD I don’t know… ._. All I know is that a celtic house made out of a tree would be awesome sauce…

OH! Taurens (Thunder Bluff) could allow you to have a mobile (ish) home! Like, a personal chest that only you can see that follows you from town to town… but it’s a tent… x)

An idea I have for that is that in places like Ogri’la or SSO, where you do dailies… as long as you do a couple (around three or four) a week, you’re allowed to have a room to yourself at no cost. It’s small, and like a rented apartment you can’t paint or nail things to the wall; and you’ve also got neighbors to deal with… but it’s still a place for your hearthstone, small storage (like a chest) and nicknacks (loving the Ony throw pillow idea).

In Ogri’la, that space in between the ogres and skyguard, you could have a stairwell that leads to an underground cavern with dim to average lighting, mostly stone and various crystal features (part of the wall is made out of opaque crystal, there are those pretty crystalline rocks jutting out in the corners like where a spiderweb would be).

In SSO… not sure about that yet, but I’m thinking go Night Elf style in that one huge building (the inn). Wide, open space with a few of those oriental door things for changing areas; using curtains (in blood elf fashion, of course) and door beads (HIPPY OGRES! ) to separate the rooms.

Or, you can make a trap door (aka- instance) that leads to an ever-growing basement. You’re basically thrown into the hall (or wide open space, harem style without the harem) where your “room” is at, and like any instance, you and your party are the only ones allowed inside. o.O (The same can be done for the Ogri’la caverns.) It gives the feel that there are more people there, but you never see them. XD

Since it’s an inn as well, it gives one that nice feeling of making a deal with a hotel or something. xD

You would be given a key for your chest (and, in the Ogri’la caverns, doors) so that no one can break into it. And just make it scenary for rogues and those damn bomb throwers xD.

Anyways– I totally want a house! XD Or at least some barracks… >_>

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I predict player housing will be the next big feature in the next expansion (which will hopefully be called “The Emerald Dream”).