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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 6:42pm

House Energy and Items

Each house has 10 spots to place and use items in your house. You can expand your house energy which costs diamonds (unless you have some promotional energy). This would allow you to use more house items and get bigger exp/tp bonus. Well I am not worried about the house bonus. Instead want to just place more items in my house. What if I expand my house to 25 items but then run out of energy? Will the furniture stay placed and I will lose the ability to move it or get the bonus from it? Or will all the furniture disapear and become locked?

Has anyone tried or tested this? I am not worried about the bonus this would just allow me to have a better looking house. 10 items is not a lot.
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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 6:53pm

When house energy runs out all your items that are past the first 10 will be put back in the placement mode. Had this happen to me when I stopped playing for a year.

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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 7:22pm

Indeed - If you have furniture placed and the house energy expires, your house shrinks back to only 10 slots.

Items in slots above 10 are locked, removed from view, and give you no bonuses.

To re-obtain these items, you must expand your house again and either provide more energy for upkeep or remove the items.

Sadly, this means that what you're hoping to do will not work - the items will not be visible.

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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 7:33pm

Never expended my house, was hopping Frogster would give more places with bigger plan (kind of paid with purchase of house plan), but of course that never happened.

Isn't there extra you have to pay to enable item slot (it used to be 300 energy back in day) and once you run out of energy, you will have to pay that again, if you like to enable it, even just to take your items back.

This is one of main reasons I was hopping for Dias NPC, as would be nice to expend house, add all furniture I have and extend my plant production to 10.

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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 7:43pm

I agree, something like the permanent backpack spaces. It would be nice to have permanent house slots added. Maybe up to 15 then up to 20 would be nice. The EXP/TP bonus isnt a big deal since it caps anyways. Or at least allow me to lay out all my furniture and have it stay there (just lose bonus) when my energy runs out :)

Another topic about houses I thought would be fun is to allow players to duel inside a house. Ive always wanted to host a duel competition with brackets and everything. It would be fun and I think have people be more active inside their house. All houses are used for now is storage and housekeepers but there is a lot of potential for more use.

Adding to the topic: What would you like to add or change to the housing system to make it more fun (Keep it clean... lol

House pets... You can have some cat, dog, or even dragon just wondering around the house. They are not really good for anything but maybe they fall over or have some type of animation...
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Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 8:06pm

Well, that would be a lot of wishes, and probably none of them will ever be implemented.

House pet is a great idea, and there might be even some XP/TP or free luck pot/buff as gift, similar like HK food/pots/buffs.

Another option would be to have XP/TP debt lowered once in house.

Permanent slots would be great, and in my opinion, different house plans should have different number of slots.

Option to access guild castle and mailbox from house would be nice as well.

Another idea about house energy - have daily quest we can do to get energy, similar like castle quests.

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Thursday, August 23rd 2012, 1:41am

Quoted from "RoMage;565806"

Another idea about house energy - have daily quest we can do to get energy, similar like castle quests.


I like that 1!

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Thursday, August 23rd 2012, 1:53am

I would love it if this were added to the item shop. As of right now, the only way to get house energy is by buying diamonds yourself, since we do not have the diamond NPC. There were many times I wanted to gift friends house energy but couldn't. :I

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Sunday, August 26th 2012, 5:05am

So here's the thing about House Energy, it's basically rent. Frogster recently reduced the price of rent to give players an incentive to pay rent in a virtual world. They absolutely need to make money off this feature, the problem is they go about it the wrong way.

No one wants to pay rent in a video game, that's just truthfully a waste of money. However everyone at some point or another will pay for customization in a video game, because that is fun and we appreciate fun. If houses had expansions for purchase, that would sell. If different house contracts have different size limits, that would also create incentive to shop around for the house that suits you.

It's inevitable that players will create multiple chars, now with an adjustment to the housing system, they have a reason to spend diamonds on their houses.

Not to end on a sour note but gameforge will never see or hear about this idea, or anyone else's because this game is rotting away in their huge chest of games they own. So the point of this message is save your breath and money until gameforge takes Runes of Magic (US), more seriously.
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Sunday, August 26th 2012, 10:13pm

There used to be festival events that would give house energy. Those were a big hit.

I agree with RoMage that larger house plans should inherntly get more slots. Not too many, but perhaps 2 extra, 12 total, for midsized plans and 5 extra, 15 total, for the large sized plans.

There also have been many a wishlist on the forums asking for Owenstien to offer house energy.
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Monday, August 27th 2012, 6:34pm

Festival:

What is there was some type of promotion that introduced specific items that you could earn for your house that do not take up house energy. They also give no benefit (just appearance). This would be fun.
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