individual player houses/apartments


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Your "bad influence" quote.
Was he talking about the paragon PD?


 

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Was he talking about the paragon PD?
No just a forum member that has been known for doing exactly what she is accusing others of doing.

I quoted it because it is so ironic coming from her.


 

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No just a forum member that has been known for doing exactly what she is accusing others of doing.

I quoted it because it is so ironic coming from her.
Oh, HA


 

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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.
The main problem with the Devs trying to use this as an excuse against Player Housing is that theoretically every player can already go out and create a 1-character SG base with every character they can make now. What's the difference?

Now of course from a software engineering point of view the chances of every active player going out tomorrow and creating a brand new SG base for all of their characters is admittedly extremely small. So small that it's entirely possible that this game, right at this very moment, lacks the disk storage space to handle such unlikely event. Still, trying to claim that Player Housing is specifically impossible for that reason alone is somewhat disingenuous when you consider the Devs have never overtly claimed that being able to create SG bases for everyone would also be impossible for the same reason. Again I'd ask what's the difference?

Frankly I think the Devs need to do better than to use something like this as convenient excuse. Clearly if that "other game" has managed to provide this feature for its players then it would not be impossible to implement here. Yes it might actually cost the Devs money for extra hardware, but on the other hand they do have the clear potential to make money from a long-wanted feature like this regardless.


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Don't hold your breath waiting. Posi has flat out told us that they are against everything that would let us make creating solo SG's easier.

Right now the best we could hope for is extremely restricted base features, and that is very unlikely considering the devs current policy on the subject.


Edit: The topic in question where we got Posi's response was about if they would consider adding a feature that let us send email invites to our offline characters, and we were told that if they ever were to add such a feature they would deliberately design it so we wouldn't be able to send email invites to characters on our own accounts. SG's were designed for group oriented content not to make solo SG's/bases.

I wish we could convince them otherwise.
Oh, I'm not holding my breath, I'm just saying it would be a great idea even as a Market item that we have to pay extra for, I'd be willing to do so. Making it a Market item even gets rid of the argument that everyone would have one and thus it would overload the instance server. Not everyone would have them, just the Premium/VIP players who spent points on one.

As for being solo, well yeah I'm sorry. I'm one of those wild scrappers who can work with a team but I prefer working alone. I've teamed with a few people randomly and two-manned some stuff, but I've done sig arcs solo, it's hard as heck but I like the challenge. I prefer this game over other MMOs because of that, in fact. I hate games that hinder players in order to force them into teams, I wouldn't pay for this game if it did that. I like to be solo, playing at my own pace, doing the storyline missions and enjoying it, not just burning through levels as fast as possible. If they didn't want solo play, they shouldn't have made scrappers

So, TL;DR: Make personal apartments/bases a Market Item so they can't complain about everyone having one, and let's have em.