User:Odinius/Player Housing Long Version

Suggestion: Player Housing Location: The Mists: Pre Searing Ascalon!

1. Getting started

You start the housing track with acquiring a “Mistborne Seared Flute” from the gemstore. Double clicking it will teleport you to the floating piece of land in the mists, you recognise it as Pre Searing Ascalon but with no humans to tend to the city and the lands the buildings eroded to ruins and the land is overgrown.

2. Area’s

When you start out only Ascalon City will be available to you and it is your goal to get npc’s in there to start renovating the place and build you your Ascalonian Castle on the ruins of the old city.

Expanding the Lands:

Over time other parts of Pre Searing Ascalon can be bought which will bond with the main one forming one landmass.

[Lakeside County] “a watery addition to your home: the waterfall now flows into a small lake containing a fishing spot and a path up to the waterfall is now clear to take a dive in the crystal-clear waters or just relax with your friends at the shore” Different species of fish can be unlocked in the world through [fill in what you think] and can then caught in your lake fishing spot. So you can fish at your lake but not in the world cluttering up shores everywhere. The town just outside Ashford Abbey can be upgraded to a bustling place with unique merchants, bankers and other interesting npc’s you can unlock for your instance making this the business centre for your instance

[Regent Valley] Dark forest with a gloomy forest house where a hermit potionmaker (Nicholas?)lives can give him items from the forest to make special potions or other items.

[Ashford Abbey] and [The Catacombs] Graveyard at a cathedral in ruins (that give you entrance to the catacombs where you can search for lost treasure to put in your Castle)

[Wizard’s Folly] Mountain (with a fiery jumping puzzle that makes you emerge at the snow covered mountaintop where you will find the remains of an ancient adventurer who holds a map(for who knows what) and the [Foible’s Fair] outpost with can host several shady traders for things not sold on the regular market.

[Fort Ranik] Watchtower also a jumping puzzle with a wp at the top and telescope.

[Greenhills County] with the lovely [Barradin Estate] Get people to tend to the vineyards and rebuild the estate to it’s former glory or better even!

[The Northlands] with the small outpost of Piken Square and it’s vast landscape. Hire a Gatemonkey (gemstore item to unlock this area) to open the gate for you as you explore this historical land beyond the wall and try to find out which secrets the Cauldron of Cataclysm holds.

3. Upgrading your Castle and Lands

Workers will be needed to build your Castle and they will require special items you can either collect from events, find in the world (JP’s or other specific places) or crafted by specific professions (nails: smith, planks: hunter, ornaments: artificer) or better yet: A new crafting line just for the housing part. Contractor profession: Tools Materials Ornaments Furniture Art and Sculptures Carpets and curtains Etc. etc. This crafting profession will only be accessible from the workshop which is located near your Castle.

Worker npc’s have to be unlocked for your instance You can find them in cities looking for a job or in special places in the world and they will need you do do a task for them before they will head off into the mists and start working for you.

Building your Castle one step at a time. Workers will finish your Castle over time and there will be many rooms and places for you to build and furbish. Some of the rooms and floors are already existent but in ruins so the workers will start renovating them one at a time and later on start building on top of the renovated ruins adding more and more to your Grand Castle.

Worker: “We’ve opened up the main hall and the left corridor, the place is in shambles but nothing we can’t handle” “Don’t go upstairs yet, the stairwell is rotten and might come down when you step on it” After the first two rooms/corridors etc. are renovated you can move on to the next phases. Imagine all the cool spaces you could open up and explore and later decorate. • Grand Hall like in Resident Evil (epic!) • Dining room • Ballroom • Smoking room • Sitting room with a large fireplace • Library • Armory • Wine cellar • Dungeon • Secret entrance which will in the future lead to a newly bought piece of land through underground tunnels • Bedrooms • Bathrooms • Astrology chamber • Alchemists chamber • Art Room • Hunters/slayers Lounge with the mounted heads of your slayer achievements (new ones added over time) • Aquarium, holding the different species of fish you caught • Towers • Gardens which could hold secret stuff • Treasury with a large vault • Large kitchen • Courtyard • Master bedroom with a balcony • Stairwells • Atrium • SAB room • Throne Room

Same goes for the Land itself, workers are needed to restore this wilderness to it’s former glory again. Clearing plant life and making roads for easy travel.

4. Decorating these halls

Items either crafted, found, gemstore or unlocked through special events will have set places in your Castle and although it would be way more fun to place all that stuff yourself it would be a nightmare to store all that data. Items not unlocked will have a ghostly low res version standing in the place where the real version would go, clicking on it will hint players at where to get this item. Above the fireplace is a large rectangular ghostly frame, “Unlock this painting by getting all achievements for Tequatl” After completing the achievements a painting of the mighty dragon will decorate the wall where the ghostly frame was. Also new ghostly items will appear over time, at special events perhaps, hinting you where you can get them. All these items you haven’t gotten yet can be bothersome for people that don’t have them cluttering their decorated rooms so an option to hide them is also needed.

5. Not making the game a Ghosttown

Some stuff can be completed from within the instance but the goal is to make people complete stuff in the real Tyria in order to get stuff for their place in the mists. And thus making people go out into the world and complete stuff and working together to get things done. World Bosses, JP’s, Dungeons, PvP reward tracks, WvW/EotM, Living Story, Achievements, Dynamic Events, Exploring

6. Guesting

You can invite people into your instance by adding them to a new tab in the Y Contacts and LFG Guest of Honor “This person is now allowed to visit your Castle and Lands in the mists.” While guesting you can accomplish certain small tasks in the owners instance helping them and yourself. Clear debris, clean dust, rake leaves, tend to flowers, encourage workers making the buildtime for the thing they work on just a little shorter. [Farmville idea] You can also get together for RP and other fun stuff you want to do.

7. Mini Games

Hide and Seek The owner of the home instance can start a minigame of hide and seek: When started there will be a ground target where the one “who’s it” will have to stand. Once at the target that player will be unable to move for 2 minutes, all players tags are turned off and your skills are replaced with only one skill “Hide Here” (you can lie down or crouch before using the skill) If the 2 minutes have passed all players are locked in place even if you didn’t use the hide skill so be careful not to stand in the middle of a room :P The seeker now can go about looking for the others and use the skill “Found You!”(shout) when he finds a player but only when he/she has selected/targeted that player. During the searching session the seeker can make shouts like “I’m coooominggg”, “I seeee youuuuu” and “come out, come out wherever you are” Hiding players can use “Giggle”, “Light tapping”, “Cough” or “Pssst” not using any of these can trigger a sneeze that will probably reveal you because if it’s loudness “Ha, Ha, Ha, HaaachoOOoooo!!!” Seeking ends in 30 mins, players not found receive 10 points for an achievement track and the seeker get’s 1 point for each found player.

Mini Me The Hermit Potion Maker in the Regent Valley can make you a shrinking potion which when used shrinks you to the size of a mouse. Now you can enter cracks and ratholes in your instance to gain access to hidden rooms and JP’s. “There is a hole in the wall here and I can see something shimmering on the other side, If only I could fit through” When you go through you stay small so the room and everything in it seem immensely large and could function as one big JP. Also they could hide these spots like these in the entire game which could contain mini dungeons, JP’s or just some loot you can use for your home. “This treestump has a burrow beneath it’s roots only a small creature can enter” Complete the event before the potion runs out or you will be returned to your normal size and have to start over. (Idea partially borrowed from Zelda the Minish Cap)

Fishing Contest You and your friends can bring your own rods and bait. Set up along the shore of the lake and FISH! Fishing contests can take 15 or 30 mins, whoever catches the biggest fish of a tier wins Higher tier fish beat lower tier ones. Rods and bait can be bought at the town centre just outside Ashford Abbey

Champion of the Catacombs The Catacombs are a true maze where you can race your friends to the finish. Setting traps along the way or opening/closing passages hindering your competitors Can you survive the Catacombs!

Participating and winning minigames can unlock stuff for your own instance

8. Mounts

People have been craving this from the beginning, others have hated it from the start as they don’t fit in the game or are not needed because of waypoints. In your ever expanding property in the mists and your only waypoint being the one just outside your castle, moving about can get very tedious. Just pick up a mount at your stable (which you will have to be build first ofc.) then pick one of the mounts you have unlocked (ingame or gemstore) and make travelling fun. So people that want them can finally have them and people that hate them don’t ever have to come near em or even see them ingame if only in anothers home instance.

9. Achievements

These can be lots of things some have to be easy to complete and some need to take lots of time and effort because of the longevity of the instance.

• Home Owner: you’ve bought a Mistborne Seared Flute and are now the owner of this plot • Helping Hand: you helped others keep their island nice and clean (clear debris, pile of leaves, dust, muddy footprints) • Assistant contactor: collected tools and materials for XX workers • Carpenter: made stuff in the workshop • Played/won minigames • Buildings renovated • Landmarks renovated So much can be there, renovated rooms, placed items, land expansions, secrets found, gardens tended, crops sowed/reaped, people invited. All with new titles to boast your progress and new items to unlock for your own place in the mists.

10. Final Words

All this taking place in your most beloved Pre Searing Ascalon the No#1 favourite place from all Guild Wars 1 players, after all these years some people are still in there and never want to leave Until Now! Area’s could even expand beyond the known map of Pre Searing as unidentified mistshards add landmass to yours, everything is possible in the mists! New achievements and collections for you to discover! A new crafting profession! Your own Grand Ascalonian Castle! Mounts! Minigames!