Anywayz I just thought of this epic idea while on a housing thread.

Heres the Basic theme of my epic idea:

So... dump housing, replace it with towne instances or kingdoms. Housing = Most likely not gonna be all too great anyways. Player will own their own Towne that they can manage. Other people can join it through the join instance menu. You will be using platinum, in game gold and player ranks/achievements to load out your towne.

Interested still? Heres how it will work:

Methods of Purchasing For Towne

  • In Game Gold - Certain items or services will require in-game gold.
  • Platinum - Certain things will require platinum
  • Rank/Title/Achievement - To be able to use all items and effects of townes, certain ranks/titles/achievements much be reached to unlock them.


Townes are Universal to Account

Your towne applies to all your characters, so you don't need to make a new towne for each character. The towne will be named after your selected main character of choice. Certain titles may only be achieved by certain races. So a Enchantress can for example: achieve "Soldier" rank on his/hers bear and unlock the Achievement on the Enchantress.

Towne Hosting Customization

So since it will be public, the towne owner will need to be able to control it.
  • Owner will be host. Host will be able to boot
  • Owner can set who may enter the towne. (Friends, Guild Members, friends of friends, public people, ect)
  • Owner can set it to allow people to join it if owner is online or not.
  • Owner may choose to not allow people in the ignore list to join towne (buh-bye beggars)


Towne Size and Towne Theme


You will be able to purchase a towne with platinum. You may then purchase default towne themes with platinum or get really nice towne themes by achieving certain ranks or titles. Such as, a golden castle theme would be like achieving 10+ million gold. Yeah that might be a hefty amount, but remember, there will be themes for like achieving 1 million gold, to 5 million and so on. Maxes out at 10 million gold for best gold theme.

  • Once you have it purchased, you may purchase one of three sizes. Small --> Medium --> Large
  • You may purchase default towne themes for platinum
  • You can unlock towne themes for achievements
  • Unlocked towne themes will require in-game gold to apply. The better the theme, the more gold it requires.


Themes will vary based on titles. Say the best PvE killcount theme is called "God Slayer". It would be a very very cool looking dungeon theme that require 50,000 PvE kills to achieve.

Towne Items and Services

The Towne Owner may decorate his towne with items, showcases, NPC's and even monsters or bosses if he chooses.

  • Owner can set NPC Merchant's in the towne. Owner customizes what Merchant sells. (Price, quality and quantity of items is effected by theme rank of towne)
  • Owner can achieve different NPC Merchants be completing quests for that towne. (If all Forest Haven Quests are done, Ellie The Enchantress is unlocked and is able to be put in Towne)
  • Owner can display accomplishments in the Hall of Glory. Hall of glory is unlocked after completion of all quests in game. Additional slots of how many accomplishments shown would cost platinum.
  • Decorations would be such as wooden statues or all the way up to Blessed Marble showcasing wealth and title.



Accomplishments shown could be like Killing The Overlord 1000 times, so a Wax Figure of the Overlord would be showed in Hall if Owner chooses. Or displaying limited time Holiday items or a cut-scene displaying part of the event.

Stash and Consignment Shoppe


Stash and Consignment Shoppe can be added. Unlocking would be as simple as purchasing with platinum. Other features would require in-game gold or achievements.

  • "Gold Expert" Would be the top Consignment Shoppe Rank. It would grant your shoppe top priority. Whenever a item is added from that shoppe, all other shoppes who search that item will see your item first, regardless of price.
  • "Master Horder" Would be the top Stash rank, it would give you ability to put in or remove anything in the stash were-ever you are.


Guilds


Player Instances are the perfect place to host guild events.

Other Unmentioned Facts


  • PvP/CTF Arena Signup may be added to towne as well.
  • There will be a top 10 most popular towne chart in leaderboard's. Giving people reason to become the best.
  • Can charge a small 100 gold fee to enter towne, but well worth the fee considering the extended benefits compared to normal towne.
  • Once Fee is added, upkeep starts. Pay for NPC's starts, management of decorations, ect begins.
  • If upkeep becomes greater then profit, towne fee stops and upkeep disappears.
  • Gold Vaults if owner chooses
  • Guild-Hall if owner chooses
  • Can add special "Small" dungeons that can only be entered through player townes. The better the theme of towne, the better and harder the dungeon. Special gears can drop.
  • Owner can charge small tax for Merchant gears, (potions, ect) dungeon fee's, consignment fee's, ect.


Thats pretty much it, any feedback or additional suggestions are accepted.

If you flame, Your such a shame, which is pretty lame, my fame will tame you :P.