individual player houses/apartments

I cancelled my 2nd account I was using to get a feel for F2P and the transition to VIP. And saw the question that asked what would have kept you etc... and one option was

individual player houses/apartments

So i picked it and made the following comment:

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I am not leaving City of Heroes. This is a 2nd account that I was playing around with. But I had to mention that the idea of individual player houses/apartments is one that had crossed my mind in the past. Smalll apartments in the zone of your choice would be a fun (and for NCSoft, profitable) addition. They must have windows and view to the city (think of the Meet David Odysseus Hill mission in the Mortimer Kal Strike Force). I hope this is something that is in the pipeline.

What do other people think of this idea? has it been talked about ion the past? MY forum search-fu is weak.

Someone will surely come along and give you a thousand reasons why it can't be done, but I just want to sneak in and say that I would love to see that idea implemented

What would be the NON RPers benefit from having an apartment?

The location thing is the only thing I doubt that we would be able to get. If the devs did devote resources to this idea I think the best we could hope for is something along the lines of what that other hero MMO has.

We wouldn't be able to pick a zone but maybe get a TP power to the apartment/lair and from there have something along the lines of what I speculated.

At worst we'd probably have to use the base portals and there would be a choice to enter our personal apartment/lair or one of the bases on the list.

According to a response in the Freedom Friday Facebook posting a couple weeks ago, the issue with player housing is server storage space. Each player apartment would take up comparable room to a base, but instead of having one for almost every Supergroup, you'd have one for almost every player.

I don't think I've ever seen a definitive "No", but I've seen several firm redname responses that basically boiled down to "Don't hold your breath".

I wouldn't complain about housing becoming an option though.

Wouldn't it be possible to do this by treating the housing like mission maps? If they make 20 or so very small maps that are each done up to look like a house or apartment and let players pick one to be where their characters lives, that wouldn't take up too much space on the servers, would it?

Wow... the server(s) alone per zone would be stupid. If Everyone wanted an apartment, even VIPs only... sheesh. Everyone would have to pay a lot to have that set up. $25+per month for the apartments, easy.

I think I'll just live in the train station, under a bridge, in the guard shack in the Hollows, like everyone else.

I would say considering how much has been added in the last 2 + years that clearly was done so to go head to head with its younger sibling made by they who shall not be named, that personal housing is very likely to happen.

It is in fact one of the few pay for features on that OTHER game that does what its meant to and isnt costing ridiculous amounts of cash for. The concept is simple and sound. An apartment building in each zone, similar to the AE buildings in that you can look out windows etc.

Each building has a certain pre fabricated lay out, with a series of adjustable options that allow for each player to have a decent semi custom personal space. It could include one free salvage bin as part of the cost to make it useful to non RPers as well, and allow it to be expanded for additional RL costs.

The player then picks a door number to be his, its not JUST his, simply a means of directing other players there, you focurse could only enter another perons home if you where teamed. Hence you wouldnt need any kind of list to pop up when you clicked a door, you just wouldnt have anything happen if you where not on a team.

Many things could be then done over time to develop this basic idea which I have little doubt would bring in ALOT more funds to the game. Id probably by one of each type eventually.

I was thinking this very thing, and searched for this suggestion before posting it myself.

I'd pay market points (ie, real money) to be able to make a small personal base/apartment. Allow one per account, and have all alts on a server share it maybe, max size being the smallest base size, but still allow the same stuff bases have?

I'm sorry, I'm just not a big social player but I like this game, and I'd like to be able to have a personal base between my characters to store things like those with SGs have. Nothing huge, but it would be nice to have.