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The last little while all kinds of ideas have been passed around about changing how houses function in the game. All of these ideas have been met with various positive and negative responses from the citizens of e-Sim. I would like to propose 5 ideas that I think will be met with positivity from housing company owners, as well as citizens alike who intend on using housing:
#1: Houses SHOULDN'T be indestructible:
The idea that houses could burn was met with a lot of negativity as it is an easy way to turn players away from playing the game. Imagine saving up for a house only to have it burn the following week.. Would you be motivated to continue playing? At the same time however, indestructible houses is going to flood the housing market and shut down all housing companies. What happens when everybody has a house?
#2: Houses SHOULD increase daily food limit AND gift limit.
Let's face it, 50 health isn't much incentive to buy a house, the idea proposed by admin to raise the daily food limit according to quality of house is a good one. However, because it costs money to buy food and gifts, not to mention the reality of people in real life only own 1 house, I think houses should increase both gift and food limit by 1, up to 5 according to quality. This would also eliminate the need to add estates.
Housing benefits, according to quality:
Q1 = 1 extra food AND gift
Q2 = 2 extra food AND gift
Q3 = 3 extra food AND gift
Q4 = 4 extra food AND gift
Q5 = 5 extra food AND gift
#3: Why Estates SHOULDN'T be included:
DS's and hospitals are already made of stone. Adding a 3rd product makes it the most important resource by far. The balance in importance of resources as they stand now are great, as I think many would agree. It also makes less work for admin updating the game since he doesn't have to add an entire new element.
#4: Houses SHOULD deteriorate:
This is important to keep the housing market alive. If nothing happens to your house, housing companies will soon all be out of business. Not to mention the market will be flooded with old houses nobody wants.
So how should houses deteriorate? There has been many different suggestions here. Limiting houses to a certain number of uses seems rather popular, but let's think about the real world for a second... Do you lose your house after living there for a certain amount of time? I hope not...
#5: My suggestion on house deterioration:
Every 30 days your house will downgrade to the level below. HOWEVER, this does not mean it will stay this way, unless you neglect the situation. I propose that once you have bought a house, that you can contact a housing company to have them patch it up and return it to it's original condition.
Patching a house will take 20% of the amount of wood used to build the house, per levels needed to restore for the owner of the housing company, but NO productivity from workers, allowing for people to instantly have their houses fixed as long as the company has wood in stock. This way, you won't be relying on somebody to work at the company just to get your house fixed.
Examples: If your Q5 house deteriorates 2 levels over a couple of months down to a Q3, it will take 600 wood to restore back to Q5.
If your Q4 house deteriorates over a 3 month period down to a Q1, it will take 720 wood to restore.
Wood needed for restoration, by Quality for 1 month:
Q5 = 300
Q4 = 240
Q3 = 180
Q2 = 120
Allowing housing companies to patch up houses will allow housing companies to continually have business, like a grain company or weapon company, since the demand for their help would never disappear.
So what about Q1 houses I hear you asking? Q1 houses are the lowest of quality, and with low quality comes problem.. When your Q1 house deteriorates, it will be gone. BUT! The owner of the house will be left with 75% of the wood from the original quality of the house to sell, or do what they please. This will stop the market from being flooded with houses.
Wood received from Q1 Deterioration by Original House Quality (What the house was originally built at):
House built as Q1 = 225
House built as Q2 = 450
House built as Q3 = 675
House built as Q4 = 900
House built as Q5 = 1125
The reason I don't think you should be able to patch up Q1 houses is because patching up any other house is going to cost close to a Q1 house anyway.
I hope these ideas sound good to most of you, and most importantly, admin... I am quite sure these changes would provide the best gameplay experience for everybody in the e-Sim world. If you agree with these changes, please share the article in your respective country so that we can find other likeminded people interested in helping houses develop for the better.
Thanks for taking the time to read!
Cheers,
SDV
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