House Rating System Feedback

Bunji · 08-12-2011, 02:38 PM

HOUSE RATING SYSTEM

You can now publish your house to be rated against fellow decorators.
Visit homes on the list and let the owners know what you think.
Houses will earn awards each day for their position on the leaderboard.
Houses can eventually enter the Hall of Fame when they earn enough awards.

You can access the 'Housing Leaderboards' window through the EQII menu.

To publish a house, click on your house door while inside your house and choose the 'Publish' icon.

Senya · 08-12-2011, 04:09 PM

The load layout button from the /house interface does not show the list of saved layouts. I have several, including new ones I just saved, and they will load if I type /load_layout Layoutfilename, but they will not show me a list of my saved layouts. The box is just empty. Others are experiencing the same issue in this thread.

Cyliena · 08-12-2011, 06:40 PM

The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it?

Items appear to lock and unlock appropriately.

Visiting worked fine, though mine is the only one on Test listed at the moment, but it still took me to my skiff from another house.

Rated someone's house, they named it "Just a test" but when I clicked the rating button it asked me to rate "Soandso's Inn Room". For consistancy you should be rating what the player named the house!

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 06:57 PM

Cyliena wrote:

The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it?
Items appear to lock and unlock appropriately.
Visiting worked fine, though mine is the only one on Test listed at the moment, but it still took me to my skiff from another house.
Rated someone's house, they named it "Just a test" but when I clicked the rating button it asked me to rate "Soandso's Inn Room". For consistancy you should be rating what the player named the house!

Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window.

ShadowMunkie · 08-12-2011, 06:57 PM

I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic.

The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have?

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 07:00 PM

Senkai@Everfrost wrote:

I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic.
The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have?

What is the major exploit you can think of? You shouldn't be allowed to use this visit mechanic if you are in combat or inside a non-house instance.

Cyliena · 08-12-2011, 07:02 PM

Rothgar wrote:

Cyliena wrote:
The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it?
Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window.

Thanks, glad to hear that! Next question: Is there a slash command to access the Housing Directory/Leaderboards? I rarely use the game menu.

Delirya · 08-12-2011, 07:05 PM

This looks like it should provide hours of fun in touring and getting ideas!

Will it be possible for people with multiple accounts to artifically bump up their own ratings though? Or do you not foresee this happening? Just a random thought that the hubby thought of, especially if there are nice rewards involved.

ShadowMunkie · 08-12-2011, 07:48 PM

Rothgar wrote:

Senkai@Everfrost wrote:
I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic.
The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have?
What is the major exploit you can think of? You shouldn't be allowed to use this visit mechanic if you are in combat or inside a non-house instance.

Okay well that makes a lot of sense, but I still see it being a small exploit/convience. You use the rating system goto the house buy an item and once you leave you are back where ever you started.

Example: I'm raiding I zone out of the instance, use the house rating system to goto a persons house to buy an item (arrows for example) I leave the house I am right back outside the instance. Thus I just have to zone back into and I am ready to go. Its more of a convience exploit than anything else.

Cyliena · 08-12-2011, 08:14 PM

The guild filter doesn't appear to be doing anything. Cloudrat published Heroes of Test hall and it's not showing up at all. The guild filter still shows only published homes. The My Homes filter works fine though.

It'd be nice to be able to:

1. See the home's owner on the directory and2. Be able to search for homes by owner.

Just a suggestion for the house categories as well, maybe have houses categorized by item count instead? Massive could be 900+, Large could be 600-899, Medium 300-599. Small 0-299.

Whilhelmina · 08-12-2011, 08:23 PM

I only hoped on Test for 5 minutes to add my House of events and will check better tomorrow.

I like the new buttons, the whole voting process (have to visit, voting icon pops up, it's very user friendly) and the way to save screenshots.

Something is bothering me:

A lot of person are using the moving crate for storage.

When a house is published, all items in the crate are showing "pack in moving crate" in red below the name of the item. I think this part is a bug (I don't understand why it's writting that). Of course, it's not possible to move items out of the crate and into the house as it would change the look of the house, so "move item" is greyed out.But could it be possible to enable "retrieve item"? The items in the moving crate have nothing to do with the look of the house and taking them into the inventory wouldn't pose a problem... and would once more enable the possibility to store into the house.

Cyliena · 08-12-2011, 08:30 PM

Whilhelmina's comment also made me think of something else. Would using the "move all items" button to move items to a published house cause problems? Hmmm might have to try that out on Test Copy.

edit: Ok I tried it now. You can move items from an unpublished house to a publish house. I tried it with one item in the unpublished house and it is now in a moving crate in the published house. It also just let me move all of the items from the published house to a different house... which I'm guessing is not supposed to be allowed? The house is still on the directory after doing that.

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 08:39 PM

Cyliena wrote:

Rothgar wrote:
Cyliena wrote:
The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it?
Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window.
Thanks, glad to hear that! Next question: Is there a slash command to access the Housing Directory/Leaderboards? I rarely use the game menu.

Yes, /house_ratings

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 08:44 PM

Whilhelmina@Storms wrote:

I only hoped on Test for 5 minutes to add my House of events and will check better tomorrow.
I like the new buttons, the whole voting process (have to visit, voting icon pops up, it's very user friendly) and the way to save screenshots.
Something is bothering me:
A lot of person are using the moving crate for storage.
When a house is published, all items in the crate are showing "pack in moving crate" in red below the name of the item. I think this part is a bug (I don't understand why it's writting that). Of course, it's not possible to move items out of the crate and into the house as it would change the look of the house, so "move item" is greyed out.But could it be possible to enable "retrieve item"? The items in the moving crate have nothing to do with the look of the house and taking them into the inventory wouldn't pose a problem... and would once more enable the possibility to store into the house.

Allowing you to retrieve an item out of a moving crate is something we could look at allowing. I agree it won't affect the layout of the house and should be fine.

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 08:45 PM

Cyliena wrote:

Whilhelmina's comment also made me think of something else. Would using the "move all items" button to move items to a published house cause problems? Hmmm might have to try that out on Test Copy.
edit: Ok I tried it now. You can move items from an unpublished house to a publish house. I tried it with one item in the unpublished house and it is now in a moving crate in the published house. It also just let me move all of the items from the published house to a different house... which I'm guessing is not supposed to be allowed? The house is still on the directory after doing that.

Yeah, you probably shouldn't be able to move all your items out if its published. We would need to require you to unpublish the house first.

Senya · 08-12-2011, 08:51 PM

I was able to use the /load_layout Layoutfilename to change the house without unpublishing. Also as trustee of one of my own houses I was able to come sit items down anywhere. I couldn't move them or pick them up after I'd placed them, but had no problems sitting them down in my house initially.

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 09:04 PM

Senya wrote:

I was able to use the /load_layout Layoutfilename to change the house without unpublishing. Also as trustee of one of my own houses I was able to come sit items down anywhere. I couldn't move them or pick them up after I'd placed them, but had no problems sitting them down in my house initially.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll get those two items taken care of.

Anestacia · 08-12-2011, 09:23 PM

Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar. SMILEY

Rothgar · 08-12-2011, 09:29 PM

Anestacia wrote:

Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar.

We've talked about it but its not in the plans as of yet. Besides moving your character between worlds, all of the house rating data would have to be published to a central server rather than separated by world.

Cloudrat · 08-12-2011, 10:43 PM

1. I voted 15 times for my house with toons on my other account.

.......I suppose one vote per house per account might be in order here.

2. I was able to publish all my houses to the ratings which eliminates my need for portals

between houses. I can just use the visit system.

3. Did I say I could publish all my houses? I now can visit every city in the Norrath with housing

and never need call to home or guildhall or portals or bells or cool down timers. WHOOOT !

Anestacia · 08-12-2011, 10:50 PM

Rothgar wrote:

Anestacia wrote:
Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar.
We've talked about it but its not in the plans as of yet. Besides moving your character between worlds, all of the house rating data would have to be published to a central server rather than separated by world.

Cool, thanks for replying. SMILEY

Senya · 08-12-2011, 10:54 PM

*Edit*

I'd responded to something I'd misunderstood when I read it originally! Oops, my bad. SMILEY

Cloudrat · 08-13-2011, 02:35 PM

After sleeping on it.... a problem that might occur...too many houses on the list, much like the list from guildhall portal to home which only has houses to which we are friended/trusteed. This would definately preclude a global list, unless the ability to travel cross server was only to hall of fame homes.

d1anaw · 08-13-2011, 03:27 PM

Cloudrat wrote:

1. I voted 15 times for my house with toons on my other account.
.......I suppose one vote per house per account might be in order here.
2. I was able to publish all my houses to the ratings which eliminates my need for portals
between houses. I can just use the visit system.
3. Did I say I could publish all my houses? I now can visit every city in the Norrath with housing
and never need call to home or guildhall or portals or bells or cool down timers. WHOOOT !

I think this is a cool feature. The only downside I can see is if you want to add some new trinket or piece of furniture, you'd then need to unpublish/publish over and over. If that's not a big issue, then it's worth publishing once everything is set up just for the convenience.

Cloudrat · 08-13-2011, 05:52 PM

Dyadem set up a house for me to test the voting on and here are the results SMILEY

First I voted 20 toons on one account with max stars giving Dya's house a 5 star rating.

Then I voted 20 toons on another account minimum stars with the following happening:

After 1 trash vote rating=4.5

After 4 trash votes rating=4.0

After 9 trash votes rating=3.5

After 14 trash votes rating=3.0

After 20 trash votes rating=2.0

Thanks for everyone's help SMILEY

Whilhelmina · 08-13-2011, 07:33 PM

I'm afraid that this whole "4 categories" will become crowded very fast.

Isn't it possible to split it a bit more?

By city it would make, I guess:

Small - Qeynos
Small - Kelethin
Small - Halas
Small - Freeport
Small - Gorowyn
Small - Neriak
Small - Prestige
Medium - Qeynos
Medium - Kelethin
Medium - Halas
Medium - Freeport
Medium - Gorowyn
Medium - Neriak
Medium - Maj'dul
Medium - Prestige
Large - Qeynos
Large - Kelethin
Large - Halas
Large - Freeport
Large - Gorowyn
Large - Neriak
Large - Maj'Dul
Large - Prestige
Massive - Prestige

So 24 categories, 3 more if we add T1, T2 and T3 halls.

Or something more small:

Small - Good aligned
Small - Evil aligned
Small - Prestige
Medium - Good aligned
Medium - Evil aligned
Medium - Prestige & Maj'Dul
Large - Good aligned
Large - Evil aligned
Large - Prestige & Maj'Dul
Massive - Prestige

So 10 categories, 3 more with halls.

And (if not sorting by city), adding the location of the house somewhere (below the name of the house).

Ealthina · 08-14-2011, 04:37 PM

I am still worry the only houses that will rank highest will be the layout editor/break out housing. My wife does AMAIZING work, but has no tech instinct for the editor....

Whilhelmina · 08-14-2011, 07:04 PM

I /bugged this: I was able to remove the portal to Leucosia hosue that was placed more or less in the middle of my House of events by right-clicking and chosing "return to owner".

d1anaw · 08-15-2011, 12:14 AM

Cheesers@Mistmoore wrote:

I am still worry the only houses that will rank highest will be the layout editor/break out housing. My wife does AMAIZING work, but has no tech instinct for the editor....

I feel the same way. I'm one of those who is not adept with the editor. Perhaps there should be different categories.

LivelyHound · 08-15-2011, 10:58 AM

Just had a go on this, and when visiting a house I rated it. Then when I went to leave by clicking the house door, the rating button is on the house exit panel so I rated it again, and again and again... I'm not sure letting one toon vote over and over again is a good thing.

08-12-2011, 02:38 PM	#1
Bunji Build Master Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 652	HOUSE RATING SYSTEM You can now publish your house to be rated against fellow decorators. Visit homes on the list and let the owners know what you think. Houses will earn awards each day for their position on the leaderboard. Houses can eventually enter the Hall of Fame when they earn enough awards. You can access the 'Housing Leaderboards' window through the EQII menu. To publish a house, click on your house door while inside your house and choose the 'Publish' icon.

08-12-2011, 04:09 PM	#2
Senya Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Ironforge Exchange Posts: 1,754	The load layout button from the /house interface does not show the list of saved layouts. I have several, including new ones I just saved, and they will load if I type /load_layout Layoutfilename, but they will not show me a list of my saved layouts. The box is just empty. Others are experiencing the same issue in this thread. __________________ Click image for a list of my completed projects.

08-12-2011, 06:57 PM	#4
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Cyliena wrote: The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it? Items appear to lock and unlock appropriately. Visiting worked fine, though mine is the only one on Test listed at the moment, but it still took me to my skiff from another house. Rated someone's house, they named it "Just a test" but when I clicked the rating button it asked me to rate "Soandso's Inn Room". For consistancy you should be rating what the player named the house! Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window.

08-12-2011, 07:00 PM	#6
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Senkai@Everfrost wrote: I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic. The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have? What is the major exploit you can think of? You shouldn't be allowed to use this visit mechanic if you are in combat or inside a non-house instance.

08-12-2011, 07:02 PM	#7
Cyliena Server: Everfrost Guild: Crusaders of Neriak Rank: Colonel Fansite Staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,798	Rothgar wrote: Cyliena wrote: The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it? Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window. Thanks, glad to hear that! Next question: Is there a slash command to access the Housing Directory/Leaderboards? I rarely use the game menu.

08-12-2011, 06:40 PM	#3
Cyliena Server: Everfrost Guild: Crusaders of Neriak Rank: Colonel Fansite Staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,798	The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it? Items appear to lock and unlock appropriately. Visiting worked fine, though mine is the only one on Test listed at the moment, but it still took me to my skiff from another house. Rated someone's house, they named it "Just a test" but when I clicked the rating button it asked me to rate "Soandso's Inn Room". For consistancy you should be rating what the player named the house!

08-12-2011, 06:57 PM	#5
ShadowMunkie Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 522	I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic. The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have?

08-12-2011, 07:05 PM	#8
Delirya Server: Guk Guild: Eternal Legions Rank: Leader Loremaster Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Florida Posts: 157	This looks like it should provide hours of fun in touring and getting ideas! Will it be possible for people with multiple accounts to artifically bump up their own ratings though? Or do you not foresee this happening? Just a random thought that the hubby thought of, especially if there are nice rewards involved.

08-12-2011, 07:48 PM	#9
ShadowMunkie Loremaster Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 522	Rothgar wrote: Senkai@Everfrost wrote: I really like this feature, especially because you get ported directly to the person's house, however I can forsee a major exploit with this mechanic. The go to house feature is really nice however, what happens whenever you get a house on the leaderboards and people allow other people to put sale's crates in the house? From my understanding the amount of sale's crates a single house can contain was increased but, how many can a single house have? What is the major exploit you can think of? You shouldn't be allowed to use this visit mechanic if you are in combat or inside a non-house instance. Okay well that makes a lot of sense, but I still see it being a small exploit/convience. You use the rating system goto the house buy an item and once you leave you are back where ever you started. Example: I'm raiding I zone out of the instance, use the house rating system to goto a persons house to buy an item (arrows for example) I leave the house I am right back outside the instance. Thus I just have to zone back into and I am ready to go. Its more of a convience exploit than anything else.

08-12-2011, 08:14 PM	#10
Cyliena Server: Everfrost Guild: Crusaders of Neriak Rank: Colonel Fansite Staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,798	The guild filter doesn't appear to be doing anything. Cloudrat published Heroes of Test hall and it's not showing up at all. The guild filter still shows only published homes. The My Homes filter works fine though. It'd be nice to be able to: 1. See the home's owner on the directory and2. Be able to search for homes by owner. Just a suggestion for the house categories as well, maybe have houses categorized by item count instead? Massive could be 900+, Large could be 600-899, Medium 300-599. Small 0-299.

08-12-2011, 08:23 PM	#11
Whilhelmina Server: Storms Guild: Les Furies d Innoruuk Rank: Matriarches Tester Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: France (Storms) Posts: 3,161	I only hoped on Test for 5 minutes to add my House of events and will check better tomorrow. I like the new buttons, the whole voting process (have to visit, voting icon pops up, it's very user friendly) and the way to save screenshots. Something is bothering me: A lot of person are using the moving crate for storage. When a house is published, all items in the crate are showing "pack in moving crate" in red below the name of the item. I think this part is a bug (I don't understand why it's writting that). Of course, it's not possible to move items out of the crate and into the house as it would change the look of the house, so "move item" is greyed out.But could it be possible to enable "retrieve item"? The items in the moving crate have nothing to do with the look of the house and taking them into the inventory wouldn't pose a problem... and would once more enable the possibility to store into the house. __________________ French Tradeskill Guide and my houses.

08-12-2011, 08:30 PM	#12
Cyliena Server: Everfrost Guild: Crusaders of Neriak Rank: Colonel Fansite Staff Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 3,798	Whilhelmina's comment also made me think of something else. Would using the "move all items" button to move items to a published house cause problems? Hmmm might have to try that out on Test Copy. edit: Ok I tried it now. You can move items from an unpublished house to a publish house. I tried it with one item in the unpublished house and it is now in a moving crate in the published house. It also just let me move all of the items from the published house to a different house... which I'm guessing is not supposed to be allowed? The house is still on the directory after doing that.

08-12-2011, 08:39 PM	#13
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Cyliena wrote: Rothgar wrote: Cyliena wrote: The pop-up box when publishing your home tells you that all awards will be kept. The pop-up box when unpublishing your home tells you that all awards will be reset. Which is it? Awards should persist when publishing/unpublishing. I'll get the text update on the unpublish window. Thanks, glad to hear that! Next question: Is there a slash command to access the Housing Directory/Leaderboards? I rarely use the game menu. Yes, /house_ratings

08-12-2011, 08:44 PM	#14
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Whilhelmina@Storms wrote: I only hoped on Test for 5 minutes to add my House of events and will check better tomorrow. I like the new buttons, the whole voting process (have to visit, voting icon pops up, it's very user friendly) and the way to save screenshots. Something is bothering me: A lot of person are using the moving crate for storage. When a house is published, all items in the crate are showing "pack in moving crate" in red below the name of the item. I think this part is a bug (I don't understand why it's writting that). Of course, it's not possible to move items out of the crate and into the house as it would change the look of the house, so "move item" is greyed out.But could it be possible to enable "retrieve item"? The items in the moving crate have nothing to do with the look of the house and taking them into the inventory wouldn't pose a problem... and would once more enable the possibility to store into the house. Allowing you to retrieve an item out of a moving crate is something we could look at allowing. I agree it won't affect the layout of the house and should be fine.

08-12-2011, 08:45 PM	#15
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Cyliena wrote: Whilhelmina's comment also made me think of something else. Would using the "move all items" button to move items to a published house cause problems? Hmmm might have to try that out on Test Copy. edit: Ok I tried it now. You can move items from an unpublished house to a publish house. I tried it with one item in the unpublished house and it is now in a moving crate in the published house. It also just let me move all of the items from the published house to a different house... which I'm guessing is not supposed to be allowed? The house is still on the directory after doing that. Yeah, you probably shouldn't be able to move all your items out if its published. We would need to require you to unpublish the house first.

08-12-2011, 08:51 PM	#16
Senya Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Ironforge Exchange Posts: 1,754	I was able to use the /load_layout Layoutfilename to change the house without unpublishing. Also as trustee of one of my own houses I was able to come sit items down anywhere. I couldn't move them or pick them up after I'd placed them, but had no problems sitting them down in my house initially. __________________ Click image for a list of my completed projects.

08-12-2011, 09:04 PM	#17
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Senya wrote: I was able to use the /load_layout Layoutfilename to change the house without unpublishing. Also as trustee of one of my own houses I was able to come sit items down anywhere. I couldn't move them or pick them up after I'd placed them, but had no problems sitting them down in my house initially. Thanks for the feedback, I'll get those two items taken care of.

08-12-2011, 09:23 PM	#18
Anestacia Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,171	Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar. __________________

08-12-2011, 09:29 PM	#19
Rothgar Developer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Diego Posts: 2,273	Anestacia wrote: Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar. We've talked about it but its not in the plans as of yet. Besides moving your character between worlds, all of the house rating data would have to be published to a central server rather than separated by world.

08-12-2011, 10:43 PM	#20
Cloudrat Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,560	1. I voted 15 times for my house with toons on my other account. .......I suppose one vote per house per account might be in order here. 2. I was able to publish all my houses to the ratings which eliminates my need for portals between houses. I can just use the visit system. 3. Did I say I could publish all my houses? I now can visit every city in the Norrath with housing and never need call to home or guildhall or portals or bells or cool down timers. WHOOOT ! __________________

08-12-2011, 10:50 PM	#21
Anestacia Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,171	Rothgar wrote: Anestacia wrote: Loving this feature, it's very nicely done. My question is though, if/when the dungeon finder goes cross server, will it be possible to visit other server homes via this tool as well? It would be so great to be able to visit other peoples homes game wide w/o having to make new characters. Just curious if this has come up yet on your radar. We've talked about it but its not in the plans as of yet. Besides moving your character between worlds, all of the house rating data would have to be published to a central server rather than separated by world. Cool, thanks for replying. __________________

08-12-2011, 10:54 PM	#22
Senya Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Ironforge Exchange Posts: 1,754	Edit I'd responded to something I'd misunderstood when I read it originally! Oops, my bad. __________________ Click image for a list of my completed projects.

08-13-2011, 02:35 PM	#23
Cloudrat Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,560	After sleeping on it.... a problem that might occur...too many houses on the list, much like the list from guildhall portal to home which only has houses to which we are friended/trusteed. This would definately preclude a global list, unless the ability to travel cross server was only to hall of fame homes. __________________

08-13-2011, 03:27 PM	#24
d1anaw Loremaster Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,139	Cloudrat wrote: 1. I voted 15 times for my house with toons on my other account. .......I suppose one vote per house per account might be in order here. 2. I was able to publish all my houses to the ratings which eliminates my need for portals between houses. I can just use the visit system. 3. Did I say I could publish all my houses? I now can visit every city in the Norrath with housing and never need call to home or guildhall or portals or bells or cool down timers. WHOOOT ! I think this is a cool feature. The only downside I can see is if you want to add some new trinket or piece of furniture, you'd then need to unpublish/publish over and over. If that's not a big issue, then it's worth publishing once everything is set up just for the convenience.

08-13-2011, 05:52 PM	#25
Cloudrat Tester Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 2,560	Dyadem set up a house for me to test the voting on and here are the results First I voted 20 toons on one account with max stars giving Dya's house a 5 star rating. Then I voted 20 toons on another account minimum stars with the following happening: After 1 trash vote rating=4.5 After 4 trash votes rating=4.0 After 9 trash votes rating=3.5 After 14 trash votes rating=3.0 After 20 trash votes rating=2.0 Thanks for everyone's help __________________

08-13-2011, 07:33 PM	#26
Whilhelmina Server: Storms Guild: Les Furies d Innoruuk Rank: Matriarches Tester Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: France (Storms) Posts: 3,161	I'm afraid that this whole "4 categories" will become crowded very fast. Isn't it possible to split it a bit more? By city it would make, I guess: Small - Qeynos Small - Kelethin Small - Halas Small - Freeport Small - Gorowyn Small - Neriak Small - Prestige Medium - Qeynos Medium - Kelethin Medium - Halas Medium - Freeport Medium - Gorowyn Medium - Neriak Medium - Maj'dul Medium - Prestige Large - Qeynos Large - Kelethin Large - Halas Large - Freeport Large - Gorowyn Large - Neriak Large - Maj'Dul Large - Prestige Massive - Prestige So 24 categories, 3 more if we add T1, T2 and T3 halls. Or something more small: Small - Good aligned Small - Evil aligned Small - Prestige Medium - Good aligned Medium - Evil aligned Medium - Prestige & Maj'Dul Large - Good aligned Large - Evil aligned Large - Prestige & Maj'Dul Massive - Prestige So 10 categories, 3 more with halls. And (if not sorting by city), adding the location of the house somewhere (below the name of the house). __________________ French Tradeskill Guide and my houses.

08-14-2011, 04:37 PM	#27
Ealthina Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Spellbound Posts: 477	I am still worry the only houses that will rank highest will be the layout editor/break out housing. My wife does AMAIZING work, but has no tech instinct for the editor....

08-14-2011, 07:04 PM	#28
Whilhelmina Server: Storms Guild: Les Furies d Innoruuk Rank: Matriarches Tester Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: France (Storms) Posts: 3,161	I /bugged this: I was able to remove the portal to Leucosia hosue that was placed more or less in the middle of my House of events by right-clicking and chosing "return to owner". __________________ French Tradeskill Guide and my houses.

08-15-2011, 12:14 AM	#29
d1anaw Loremaster Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1,139	Cheesers@Mistmoore wrote: I am still worry the only houses that will rank highest will be the layout editor/break out housing. My wife does AMAIZING work, but has no tech instinct for the editor.... I feel the same way. I'm one of those who is not adept with the editor. Perhaps there should be different categories.

08-15-2011, 10:58 AM	#30
LivelyHound Loremaster Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 523	Just had a go on this, and when visiting a house I rated it. Then when I went to leave by clicking the house door, the rating button is on the house exit panel so I rated it again, and again and again... I'm not sure letting one toon vote over and over again is a good thing.