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Also, I'd like to hear more housing-related things/opinions please!
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As for ships and housing, as requested by Jurixe,
I do like how ships are now. There are times when I'm tending to my patients and just want to see what is going on in Achaea. The December events are a prime example of this. I was free for days on end, but the stuff kept happening on weekends. If I wanted to actually SEE what was going on, I had to just have Achaea open on a non-networked computer so I could at least feel like I was there. Ships give a decent ability to do just that, and that is not something the game will benefit from with it being removed. I do, however, believe that there should be a 10 minute cooldown between striking a player and then boarding a ship. If you go engaging other players, your avenues of safe haven should be limited to those that other players can work to circumvent. A small list would be running, cities, phasing, etc. All of these at least have SOME sort of counter play.
I do personally feel that houses are lackluster. Houses do give us the absolute freedom of creation that is unique to a portion of this game. You control the style, layout, and to some degree the location of everything. You can make a forest of phallic plants, secret labs, or if you're some weird eagle fetishist who wants their own island, you can do that too -cough- @Penwize -cough-. But all of that freedom came from a time in achaea that heavily favored situations where your character could lose massive amounts of wealth in a flash. I truly believe much of the discrepancy between houses and ships comes from the game philosophy at the time each was conceptualized. With all of that being said, I don't believe the sheer customization that houses offer is enough. I would really like to see more incentives to actually spend time within homes, but not at the cost of anything else. But ultimately the incentives needed to entice people to their abodes will be just as varied as non-siren descriptions in Achaea. Some people just want rested experience boosts, some want guards, some billiards, some want absolute security, while others hate everything I just mentioned. I don't honestly have a list of perks that would make houses interesting and desired by the masses. On Telendrieth, the only reason I purchased and constructed a house was in order to create the building that I used in his backstory. Aside from that, I spend very little time there (And no, I don't afk on my ship instead).
You talk about how no one is 'entitled' to privacy, or minimum levels of safety, or whatever else--but the assumption then is you're entitled to pk, spy on, or rob anyone you like. Your personal desires to play the game aren't what is automatically 'healthy' for the game.
Objectively, I'd say having people like house/city/order leaders be around while at work (or doing ingame work) or whatever, half-afk but able to temporarily focus and respond to tells and ht/ct/ot is healthier for the game than having all these people qq. Y'all went on about how 'omg gem is ruining the game by making qw x% smaller', but removing all kind of safety would... also do that.
Very few people go 100% afk on achaea, even with a ship, and I know this as someone who specifically watches for afking. These people on ships are not entirely removed from the game, interaction-wise.
I used to argue, when I was younger, that Achaea should just be free pk. I preferred when theft was more dangerous (and it was a lot more dangerous, especially with stuff like Profit's little box), etc. I even wanted player orgs to be destroyable. But I realized that that's not really the game Achaea is, nor what the majority of players want. If you want a game that's 100% dangerous you really should just play another game on the side, rather than try to force your personal preferences on a population that, let's face it, would rather not even pk once a month in their majority.
Achaea is the game it is because it's not the wild west. If you want the wild west, there's eve online or ultima online private servers or whatever else.
And when has anything been 'against the rules' stopped people from doing shit?
For instance: a room upgrade that amounts to a lockable container you get the key to or is otherwise only operable by a single, designated person, that happens to be non-decay.
Housing guards I'm on the fence about. I don't like the thought of someone sitting in a non-prism room -and- being able to cfh after doing something obnoxious.
Homereturn'd be good. I'd like a system to go to home from subs entrance, tbh. People don't have to look for their ship in a harbor, why should others have to look for their house in subs? Subs map still works, of course, just a quick option for people (this can be made a room upgrade for entrance room, I think!).
Synaptic locks are a nuisance, to be sure, and I think Penwize's solution is a reasonable one. It's my experience that anti-prism goes a long way towards keeping people out of a place. Given that a couple triggers and selfishness, plus a container a thief can't open would make you pretty safe against thievery, what'd the objection be to making all housing (ship and non-ship) have even footing in terms of security? You ostensibly have the advantage in that you can literally move your ship out of an area of someone is spamming prism or whatever (just cast off and move one room, then return when it seems the offender has gone away).
Clan-owned housing sounds pretty amazing, with an investible clan power that allows setting perms, and anothert allowing building/room upgrading.
ETA: I used to pvp a lot and no one ever came to my house to randomly try and telepathy me to death out of the blue. What've you all been doing to deserve that kind of commitment o_O?
That's why Imperian has 12 players.
>own an OOS plot/house
>be cyrenian and have random mhaldorians bugging you for fun
>fk people up in yer wedding and go mhaldorian
>have fun with various people trying to break into your house for pretty much forever, no matter what org you're in
(That's not to say some people didn't have reason, like bounties. But other people... good lord.)
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
That love soon might end You are unbreaking
And be known in its aching Though quaking
Shown in this shaking Though crazy
Lately of my wasteland, baby That's just wasteland, baby
1. This is already the case on ships. There's not much difference to that or sitting in a city room on guards. I don't necessarily want to make killing people in their homes easier, just technically possible. Even with the guards, you can still radiance them etc. If you buy the security, why shouldn't you enjoy it? I anticipate it to be a heavy investment. If it's made a different area then this is of course moot.
2. There is already an artefact that does this, as mentioned elsewhere. I just don't think it adequately addresses the inconvenience - houses currently feel very much disconnected from the city and it's far easier and safer to just sit in a city room with guards. To change that, homes need to be as easily accessible as city rooms and that won't be the case even with the subdivision token.
The value of Homereturn is that it reinforces the idea of your house as your refuge and makes going 'home' convenient.
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...But you'll always follow the voices beneath.
To be sure, but I don't think it'd be out of line to have a way to reach your home straight from subs exit/entry point, given that there's already a channeled wait for entering subs to begin with! I don't know that that ought to be an artefact power, so much as QoL thing that could benefit everyone sinking money into the housing system.
ETA: Like I said, I like the idea of homereturn, the straight-to-my-house thing would be an addition to that, not a replacement.
ETA2: Brainstorming with other people OOCly, I think a room upgrade that gives you a container that's immovable that only you can open would be good, as well. @Elisella suggested a furniture option that makes anything you place on a piece of furniture immovable except by the owner, so you can display stuff more organically than with a display case, without the risk of it all being swiped, which I think is a pretty good idea.
Plays and counterplays, that's the whole point!
You dont always have a monk around or aware. I sadly now know of several monks that enjoy mind-locking and just reading whatever that target is saying or doing. I'd rather not ask on CT every now and then "can someone check if anyone is being a perve", and would frankly prefer to just enjoy my quiet time in an isolated room.
Just look at all the cities that will complain or charge you with crimes if you don't keep sigils up, even if you absolutely personally don't care if someone breaks in. That should be proof enough that houses are awful. They're so bad, they're a security risk to the city they're in, nevermind the people who live there. How ridiculous is that!
I don't really see why you can't hire house guards. You can hire mining soldiers, why not house guards? They could be a more expensive servant type that has more HP and deals serious damage, perhaps with a limit on how many you can station per room, and a limit on roaming soldiers per house? Or they can just be a housing upgrade, but I like how servants can be customised and given personality.
If house guards were like mining soldiers or city guards in that you have to pay for replacements, that'd get a bit annoying. People can try to grief you just by killing your denizens. I'm not fond of that, personally. At that point, I'd... rather just aggressively hire marks on anyone who steps into my home without permission. It'd be way cheaper and way more effective. o.o
Also, although the admins may not be fully aware of this as they still don't allow customisable locks on chests, there is an item that all of you have been saying you want! Shop of wonder display cases can store plenty of stuff, and only the owner can retrieve things from them. Two mayan crowns to store 25 items isn't too bad, given that its security is really hard to beat. In comparison, a locked chest could be force unlocked for the would-be thief to take everything from it. It's just a bit silly that it's a display case instead of whatever container item you might want it to be, but that's my same complaint about drinking horns being exclusively horns. ><
Finally, shouldn't privacy stop telepathy spies? It's an expensive upgrade, but it should stop them. I forget if it does or not, but if it doesn't, it should.