What if for the background areas, instead of having areas in the middle of the map, we had houses in a community with other player houses and the streets made up of that shiny red hexagon brick thing(do you know what im talking about?). This probably sounds far fetched but maybe it could be done. Id definitely buy a house then, without a doubt.

I got this idea from a weird and absolutely unintentional and probably disturbing dream i had when i climbed out of my forest guild house and saw mansions (guild houses) across the street and behind me and in the middle of the whole thing was a lake. By this point in the story i was no longer a mage but a human manly-boy thing.