"Only Skyrim allows this, most accessibly with furniture, and only if you learn the console hacks and the various tricks necessary not to place barrels sideways through a wall. "
Not quite true - the home upgrade options can simply be bought from the jarl's steward, I thought.
I've also bought all the Skyrim houses and upgraded them all, although Breezehome is still the one I use most. I'm quite proud of my property empire, so it's not strictly a girl thing.
Have you installed any Skyrim abode mods? There are some really luxurious ones out there that come with every convenience installed, in abundance. Some even have showers! :-)
Ah, but you misunderstand. Skyrim gives you upgrades, but not true flexibility without the console. The Jarl's steward options do indeed give you, in most cases, decent furniture, most of the crafting stations and at least a couple of chests. What the console allows you to do is to delete the more irritating bits of decor (I hate all the animal heads), and to add, more or less wherever you want to put them, extra chests, barrels, bookshelves, any crafting stations the designers didn't bother with (my Breezeholm and Archmage quarters also have all the blacksmith stuff), shrines, cupboards, tables, chairs, etc etc etc. I can spend hours on it, patiently fiddling placement so it's exactly right. That's where the barrels halfway through a wall come in, the placement commands are not entirely intuitive. I do have some of the mods, but a couple of them crashed my game fairly consistently and I got a bit gun-shy.
I must cop to having made the "girly" comment entirely in the spirit of irony, so fair comment :>.
LOTRO housing is ghastly to get to, as all the housing neighourhoods are stuck miles away from anywhere else, requiring at the very least a horse ride from the nearest town. As a result, as soon as you get a house (only one per account per server) you also get a skill that allows your toons to teleport there once an hour. It's all very, VERY pretty but only useful as storage. No crafting and minimal display. Plus you have to pay rent so if you go AFK for more than 6 weeks you get locked out. There are various items available (from vendors, crafting, festivals, quests and raids) that you can use to personalise your house, but there is really no reason to go there other than to get something out of storage or for roleplay. (Oh, and to use my keg that teleports me to random destinations in Moria when I use it, I love that one
( ... )
Bah. You haven't owned a virtual home until you've owned a Wizard101 virtual home. Change the wallpaper, change the flooring, craft or purchase furniture/decorative objects/fountains/etc.
You can get the depressing, fog-ridden Death House (significantly modeled after the Bates Motel, but not identical)...or buy a multi-story giant tree to live in.
I started playing because of my nephew and...wow. I'm addicted on my own now. It's purportedly a kids' game, but it's a kids game the way old cartoons are kids' entertainment. There's this other level, of witty pop-culture references, that are droll and amusing
Sigh. You've reminded me again of how far ahead of everything else Star Wars Galaxies was. I pine for my Tatooine Medium House that I wasted a ridiculous amount of hours decorating.
You could place a wide variety of furniture, decorations and, yes, crafting stations, almost anywhere inside, and rotate or elevate it exactly as you pleased. There were amazingly creative players who must have taken hundreds of hours to put together the most incredible homes, guild halls, shops and cantinas. It even spawned virtual interior decoration businesses, as this sad page with its broken links shows http://www.keltlore.com/swgdesign/links.htm.
It went further, since SWG allowed for player cities with mayoral elections. The mayor controlled exactly how all civic and player structures were placed.
Comments 6
Not quite true - the home upgrade options can simply be bought from the jarl's steward, I thought.
I've also bought all the Skyrim houses and upgraded them all, although Breezehome is still the one I use most. I'm quite proud of my property empire, so it's not strictly a girl thing.
Have you installed any Skyrim abode mods? There are some really luxurious ones out there that come with every convenience installed, in abundance. Some even have showers! :-)
Reply
I must cop to having made the "girly" comment entirely in the spirit of irony, so fair comment :>.
Reply
Reply
You can get the depressing, fog-ridden Death House (significantly modeled after the Bates Motel, but not identical)...or buy a multi-story giant tree to live in.
I started playing because of my nephew and...wow. I'm addicted on my own now. It's purportedly a kids' game, but it's a kids game the way old cartoons are kids' entertainment. There's this other level, of witty pop-culture references, that are droll and amusing
Reply
You could place a wide variety of furniture, decorations and, yes, crafting stations, almost anywhere inside, and rotate or elevate it exactly as you pleased. There were amazingly creative players who must have taken hundreds of hours to put together the most incredible homes, guild halls, shops and cantinas. It even spawned virtual interior decoration businesses, as this sad page with its broken links shows http://www.keltlore.com/swgdesign/links.htm.
It went further, since SWG allowed for player cities with mayoral elections. The mayor controlled exactly how all civic and player structures were placed.
All gone now. *cry*
Reply
http://swg.curby.net/tsarinhouse/
Reply
Leave a comment