Topic

Housing

There currently is only a single house available in the meadow, the availability of houses seems to become very limited towards the ends of long tests, and I imagine it will only get worse as testing ramps up and the game goes live.

What are the plans for providing new houses when up time increases? Will there be small projects to upgrade the housing? 

One thing which I could see as being interesting is if players could actually sell their houses for a profit. Although there is no chance I will sell my lovely house for the 20% loss, I might be inclined to sell my house for a hefty profit if someone offered to buy it off of me. 


Does anyone else have thoughts on the housing shortage and possible fixes?

Posted 20 months ago by Zaphod Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Almost every new street we were opening this test seemed to have 1, if not 2 housing areas. I think we're about to see a huge influx of new housing very soon.
    Posted 20 months ago by Jhennauchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I've wandered around the new streets, and while they all have housing, if their like other Shimla houses, they won't have gardens, which I feel are a really important part of a house. I think this is part of the popularity of the Meadow, huge gardens with every house.
    Posted 20 months ago by Zaphod Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, there are two new areas with an abundance of under-construction housing. Some streets even have two housing areas. I am sure the existing whole world will get revamped eventually as well. Look at all the open slots in the click-in housing maps.

    After all, we didn't even have flowers in the streets of the meadows until this beta test!
    Posted 20 months ago by Mistress*of*Fishies Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It also looks like current housing spots can be easily expanded. Leeteg, for example, has one of those larger street signs leading to Leeteg Mews that can accomodate many different blocks of houses but it currently only has the 2200 block. As more people join the game, it seems like additional blocks can be added on to existing streets. 
    Posted 20 months ago by leah Subscriber! | Permalink
  • the question is: will the additional blocks be the exact same models in place now, or can we expect upgrades in each of our neighborhoods so we don't HAVE TO move?  or will we be able to apply to the bureaucratic hall to buy our neighbors house and just tunnel into it?  I want to live in Tallish Crest but i want all the amenities...  If not i want to own a house in multiple areas.
    Posted 20 months ago by IxÆoN Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm all for house expansion. I want the ability to add a basement to my Meadows house so I can have an egg plant and a firefly swarm and a Jellisac and a peat bog. :) Maybe I just want to be able to harvest all the resources in the game at least once a game day from my own home, to keep little stockpiles of them for projects. :)
    Posted 20 months ago by Jhennauchan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would LOVE house expansions and possibly a construction related branch of skills. 

    I'd also love to have block gardens as sort of a mini version of the community gardens. Community gardens are great but as a Shimla resident, it's a bummer to have to trek over there to plant. If there was a garden on my housing block a fraction of the size of the community gardens but slightly larger than a backyard garden, I'd be one happy lil Glitch. 
    Posted 20 months ago by leah Subscriber! | Permalink