7-Year Veteran Reward: Mistmoore Crag Estate

[Xalmat]

Brook wrote:

Will we be able to change wall ceiling and floor textures the way we could in the original home models or will we be locked in to what someone else thinks is nice?

Not saying it isn't an epic reward and all, just want to know if its going to be as lame as the rest of the housing options with the exception of Freeport and Qeynos. Been seeing a lot of lazy programing as of late.

Doubtful you'll be able to change the textures. Being able to change the textures is a nightmare as far as zone design goes, which is why you don't see new houses support the feature.

[Katz]

I know its probably not possible, but I sure wish you could have your regular house AND the skyblade house and/or the vet house.  I have houses that are decorated that I don't want to give up, so I've not even claimed my skyblade house.

[Anestacia]

Katz wrote:

I know its probably not possible, but I sure wish you could have your regular house AND the skyblade house and/or the vet house.  I have houses that are decorated that I don't want to give up, so I've not even claimed my skyblade house.

Multiple housing is someting that has been wanted for a long time but I am guessing there are issues with broker sales and guild hall home teleporters among other things.  I sure hope they decide to look into this option some day as it would be great to be able to have more than one home!

[kcirrot]

Will there be a way to get to the estate from the main cities?  This house is awesome, but not too interested in moving from South Qeynos if I'm going to be out in BFE.

[Enna]

*blinks*

*rubs her eyes, blinking again, and then pinches herself to make sure she's awake* Ouch!

Well, it -seems- real...

To be truthful, and my apologies to the folks who worked so hard to make it happen -- I can appreciate the craftsmanship, even when the result isn't "my cup of tea" -- I'm not greatly looking forward to the 6-year reward. I'm really not much into red-and-black with evil overtones. But hey, free goodies are always welcome. I know lots of folk were pleased with those appearance items, and I'm glad for them.

This one though... *checks the calendar* ... 7 years can't come soon enough!

So very nice. And zero rent, too!  *cheers*

I probably won't be getting this house for all my characters, since variety is also fun. Some will definitely get this house though... when I grow into 7-year vet reward eligibility.

I hope there's an access from somewhere reasonably safe, like perhaps Somborn village, for lower-level characters? (My tradeskillers tend to have high levels in tradeskilling, but only moderate levels in adventuring).

Either way -- Many thanks!

*tries not to squirm with impatience*

The next three years are likely to feel longer than they truly are...

[Zunarn15]

Love it love it love! I cannot wait!

[Anestacia]

kcirrot wrote:

Will there be a way to get to the estate from the main cities?  This house is awesome, but not too interested in moving from South Qeynos if I'm going to be out in BFE.

The portal to this house is in South Qeynos (and South Freeport) and is in the same location as the airship if you are familiar with that

[Zyllah]

Who can I thank heavily for this wonderful gift???

Seriously, as a decorator and carpenter, I'd be perfectly willing to give up my fury's house in Neriak for this puppy.  2 more years (give or take) can't come soon enough!

[Keianna]

I am not that much into decorating, but this is amazing.

The downside; my main already has rent-free house in FP, and all my characters have the rent-free skiffblade.

I do not mind being forced to have 1 house per character, but they need to implement:Call HomeCall to Alt Home (ability to call to the home of your alts (comes up like CoV, listing the homes of your account's characters).

Looking forward to this, in almost 11months... /sigh

[Keikoku]

Alvane@Unrest wrote:

I guess it's fine for decorators and those who care about housing. Is there nothing else?

NM - didn't see the small link to the rest of the rewards. Ah, repeating the wand of forgiveness. And bunch of appearance gear. The TS vitality will come in handy if leveling a crafter.

I think you're looking at the 6th year stuff.  The 7 year hasn't been added to that page yet.

[Tinily]

My husband and I are incredibly happy to see this reward coming. You guys have just guaranteed that I'm not going to let my original Sony account die now.

I'm not into decorating, but I love the houses! And, who knows, some day I might want to decorate. Until then, I'll certainly have a wonderful house waiting.

GREAT WORK!

[Ariellia]

Wow! When I first heard someone mention this in-game, I had to come to the site and check it out. I thought it was a joke.

Add me to the folks who think this is absolutely incredible!

I'm not even a huge decorator, but I still think this a huge reward. I'm going to look forward to never paying rent again, and maybe even having more broker slots Who knows, this actually may get me more into decorating (or maybe I'll hire one of my guildies who are better at it than I am )

Thanks to the devs and folks who made this happen

[Alenna]

kcirrot wrote:

Will there be a way to get to the estate from the main cities?  This house is awesome, but not too interested in moving from South Qeynos if I'm going to be out in BFE.

if what I"ve seen on Test and Test copy is any indcation the answer would be yes right next to the skiff entrance clickie

[Melanchol]

will you be increasing the item limits on this home to match the newly increased item limits in other homes?

[Barbai]

And here I just got my halas manor the way I like it.

[Kyiara]

This is an incredible vet reward! Very very nicely done SOE! Now I know what was on your guys mind when it was mentioned at Fan Faire that more "speciality housing" was in the wings! WOOT! Only wish I was closer than one year! LOL

And for those folks all worried about whether there will be something for the non-decorators out there...seriously...take a look at your previous vet rewards...have you EVER been given just one thing???? No doubt there will be other stuff, at least potions or some other items.  SOE wanted to showcase something cool, so the announcement was about the house, but I'd almost bet money there will be other items. 

I for one am just excited to see something that clearly has some effort put into it given as a reward!

[Kunaak]

is that all there is - this house?

I dont even care about the houses I use for my toons now - this kinda thing gives me little to look forward to.

[ratdeath]

Squeek! Nice, me likes it, maybe me moves there.

Would it be possible to add port to friends/alts houses feature using the guild hall "portal to house" thingy?

[Bruji]

Oh what a wonderful, awesome reward!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I see there are some that are not interested in houses, but I LOVE THEM and this one is just MAGNIFICENT. I am going to have such fun decorating mine and my friends I just drool. THANKS, OH THANKS SO VERY MUCH. This is the best ever!!!!

[Whilhelmina]

Oh, why was my char transferred to a new account? Well, I'll have hubby chars to decorate

I LOOOOOVE IT !

I hope there are nice coffins in the basement too

[Nakaru-Nitepaw]

My shadowknight alt will love it. My main however wil stay in 4 bayle court becuase i worked hard on stat reduction to 0 cost and have everything the wya i like it there. But my alt will love it.

[mysticalone]

This is a wonderful vet gift

and to those that are talking about being left out.  I dont recall a whole lot of houses and decorator items in the last 6 years as vet rewards.  I think we got a headstone at one point once.   In any event I will be using it and hoping although possible a bit too greedy its in addition to our present housing lol.  I made the assumption it was, but this could be wrong.  Either way I cant wait to make it haunted with those noise boxes and fog and all the other stuff i have.

Thanks for something that is not consumable and that disappears after I use it.  I mean I liked those potions but not much to show once they are gone..

[Duotang]

Sorry if I missed this, but will there be a name suffix added to the 7 year vet rewards? There has not been a suffix added since "Zealous".

[thog_zork]

only a house

iam so disappointed ... hoped for something with an useful effect

[Jaremai]

It's nice but since I'm still 100 days away from the 6yr reward, all I can do is /yawn.

In EQ1, at least earlier this century, you would get vet rewards based on your accumulated time PLUS any prepaid subscription time - i.e. if you were a 4yr vet and bought a 1yr subscription, then grats, you have the 5yr reward because Sony had your money.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work like that anymore, which is incredibly frustrating to me since I've been playing since beta but had to take a break due to personal financial reasons.  Not being able to fill in the blank makes me a sad customer.  Further unfortunately, Sony doesn't care anymore, even if they have your money in the form of a prepaid longterm sub.

[Darkor]

Jaremai@Guk wrote:

It's nice but since I'm still 100 days away from the 6yr reward, all I can do is /yawn.

In EQ1, at least earlier this century, you would get vet rewards based on your accumulated time PLUS any prepaid subscription time - i.e. if you were a 4yr vet and bought a 1yr subscription, then grats, you have the 5yr reward because Sony had your money.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work like that anymore, which is incredibly frustrating to me since I've been playing since beta but had to take a break due to personal financial reasons.  Not being able to fill in the blank makes me a sad customer.  Further unfortunately, Sony doesn't care anymore, even if they have your money in the form of a prepaid longterm sub.

This is exactly why its called veteran reward. Its something for people who did not take a break. I feel with you, but thats exactly what this whole concept is. For people who were subscribed the whole time. Whether you can buy pre-paid time or not is something i cant decide. I would be against it tho. There should be things left in this game that cannot be reached with simple money.

[Striikor]

Great! Not!

In a word, underwhelmed.

So I trade my Magical Manor (free anyway), so no improvement whatsoever in my case. Waited 7 years for a BLANK award! Upkeep on my previous manor was absolutely no problem. 

So will I at least be able to have all my toons on the account be 'owners' instead of trustees if I want?

I would have MUCH rather had an AA mirror that would store multiple specs. Or a pocket mirror /meh so easy to travel and/or flag, CoV or call of the tinkerer to and from my domicile that a pocket mirror would not be a great benefit. Now Multiple slots ..... /drool.

After 7years I could really use a way to spec out AA's for harvesting, crafting, solo, Raid or BG's. That would have been a great 7 year vet award.

This .... for me is useless.

[screenid]

  Love it

[arieste]

I'm sorry, but making people go out of their way to run to a house that's in an inconvenient zone just isn't that good of a reward.  

The place itself is beautiful of course.  And I'm sure those that love to decorate will enjoy.  

But for sake of practicality, it needs something more:

1.  Call to House - if you're going to make it in an inconvenient location, give me a way to get there from anywhere.  I don't want to run through (or load) several zones to get there.

OR - ability to bind the zone in to this to any housing location - i.e. if i'm currently living in East Freeport, allow me to zone in to this thing from the same door.  Or even from my current house - this could be like country estate.

2.  Amenities - if you're going to make move away from all the amenities I have beside my current house, this should have a mender, signet peddler, broker and junk buyer inside. 

3.  Rent-free part is awesome.  Give us the option of making our own house rent-free instead.  For those that don't want to move to an inconvenient location - as in, separate the rent-free piece form this house and make it applicable to one house per character or whatever.

It's great to have a beautiful rent free house.  It's not so good to have it way out of the way, where it's not convenient to get to or to do my other business.  It shouldn't be just a decorator's toy.  For those of us who actually do stuff in game other than decorate houses, it should be functional.

[Cyliena]

arieste wrote:

I'm sorry, but making people go out of their way to run to a house that's in an inconvenient zone just isn't that good of a reward.  

The place itself is beautiful of course.  And I'm sure those that love to decorate will enjoy.  

But for sake of practicality, it needs something more:

1.  Call to House - if you're going to make it in an inconvenient location, give me a way to get there from anywhere.  I don't want to run through (or load) several zones to get there.

OR - ability to bind the zone in to this to any housing location - i.e. if i'm currently living in East Freeport, allow me to zone in to this thing from the same door.  Or even from my current house - this could be like country estate.

2.  Amenities - if you're going to make move away from all the amenities I have beside my current house, this should have a mender, signet peddler, broker and junk buyer inside. 

3.  Rent-free part is awesome.  Give us the option of making our own house rent-free instead.  For those that don't want to move to an inconvenient location - as in, separate the rent-free piece form this house and make it applicable to one house per character or whatever.

It's great to have a beautiful rent free house.  It's not so good to have it way out of the way, where it's not convenient to get to or to do my other business.  It shouldn't be just a decorator's toy.  For those of us who actually do stuff in game other than decorate houses, it should be functional.

The home is accessed from South Freeport or South Qeynos. How is that more out of the way than normal?