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Purchasing Houses/Apartments

edited July 2020 in General Discussion
Happy 4th of July to the community.

From the previous video, we see the team running through a level 5 node - large city/metropolis. We also saw @Steven Sharif purchase an apartment (or two). And in addition, we also received a glimpse of what was inside said apartment. Other factors came into play - taxes, location, furniture, storage, but these have not been shredded out in detail. However, my question is: will it be difficult to purchase a nice place to live? In other games: 1) Neverwinter Nights, and, 2) Legends of Aria, apartments and houses were extremely expensive. Will housing / apartments be that difficult to attain in Ashes of Creation? For example, a player may not acquire the necessary gold until at epic levels, or he/she is a well-known crafter or leader or lieutenant of a guild, or are there other determinants or extenuating factors as well?
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Comments

  • JahlonJahlon Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    Housing will be available for players. Its tied into citizenship, so it has to be accessible early on for the politics systems to work.
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  • CaerylCaeryl Member, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    There will be multiple forms of housing in cities. Most will be non-instanced and actually exist in the world, such as freeholds and houses, while others like apartments will be instanced.

    It’ll be up to the node mayor to build more apartments or allocate more space for houses.

    Freeholds however can be built anywhere that they won’t intersect a node’s potential growth area. If the old info is still accurate, permits to build can be obtained from level 3 nodes, but it’s been a while so it’ll be new info soon enough once the next alpha tests bring their feedback to be iterated on.

    Basically you’ll have a lot of options for housing, and with the concurrent player population being around 10k per server for a very large world, it shouldn’t be too hard to find housing that suits your needs
  • edited July 2020
    It would seem as though there are more options than I had thought. /That/ is excellent.
  • JahlonJahlon Member, Intrepid Pack, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
    @Zephron Lightblade here you go: https://ashes101.com/housing

    That might help you explore more housing options.
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