Pharcyde's Epic Idea. It's Epic, Hands Down.. No... Noo! Don't Fight it.. Its Epic...

[Pharcyde]

I'm all for the idea - I love the aspect of customization in MMOs but wondered if their servers could handle a huge amount of saved data like that. The difference between customized townes and dungeons is that dungeons are discarded after 60 seconds when everyone leaves and no one joins, but customized townes won't be, unless of course they implement some sort of a check to discard useless data (i.e. townes that have been abandoned by their maker for a long period of time).

Hmm.. I think we can work around that.

Remember, not everyones gonna have a decked out towne with 75,000 upkeep.

1.) Just remove the if host is online thing and replace it with "if towne is empty for more than 60 seconds".
2.) Make it so you have to be top level in order to even be able to make a towne "Public". That way there isn't thousands of level 1-40 townes that like nobody is gonna enter.
3.) Make List Rent Times, so there will be 100 spots open at a time or so. You can pay rent for ten hours to one day to one week. Once your time is up or your towne empties, its taken off the list. If your towne empties, you will be refunded the amount of gold based on remaining time.

What are your thoughts on this idea? Think it would be more logical for the servers?

I can tell you put a lot of thought into this, and I respect you for that, but I personally would rather just have a housing system. This idea sounds like it would be fun, but really only for the people who own the towns. Thinking in a utilitarian way, they would make more people happy by allowing many the ability to have and customize a house, as opposed to letting a few (the richest) have a town. I envision the house as a smallish space, kinda like father frost's instance. Add some plat bought items to decorate or show off, many players may buy these things, and they'll make plenty of money off it.

Perhaps allow them both then?

A personal player owned house and a Kingdom would be really fun for all.

I am a huge fan of player housing, especially after Runescape. Runescape pulled all the plugs into making player housing fun, but it was still a pretty epic fail, houses were like never used. I don't wanna see that happen on PL, I want the same concept to be very successful and used. Maybe we can have the best of both worlds.

I like your idea, but I don't really like the idea of housing at all.. Just reminds me of other games. I'd rather just hack and slash through dungeons and PvP. On the other hand, I'd love to have a place to chill with all my friends without beggars etc. Like the guild hall is a great idea, but I'm not in a guild. Your idea is really complex, and to have something developed at a large scale would be an immense undertaking. I feel like people will just exploit this as a way to show off their friends and money. I like Kujen's idea, but I also like how you thought of being able to pick who you want in your towne (friends, guildies, etc). Overall, nice.

Understandable, I like hack and slash but it only goes so far for me :P. I think you would enjoy this too, because you can go hack and slash style and unlock the hack n slash themes.

Yeah this would be a huge undertaking, but the rewards would be great. PL would be up to their eyes in money. This update will put tons of purpose into completing the game and even farther beyond that. I know for me, I would be much more active game-wide if there was a achievement to be earned everywhere.