Housing - Home Sweet Home

Thema: Housing - Home Sweet Home Sa März 27, 2010 12:31 pm

Decorate as you wish: taste variations

A cozy, and simple home.Currently there are over 130 available interior items -with more to come- giving players many different options to decorate their home.. A Variety of tables, chairs, rugs, fireplaces, beds, wall decorations, room-dividers… the range of possibilities allows individual design for anyone’s tastes!

The (treasure)chest: item storage

A place to keep your booty!Of course Runes of Magic offers a bank in every large city. But since humankind has always been hunters and gatherers, players have access to their own chests as well, in which they can store all their precious treasures. The first of those chests has 20 slots and can –like everything else- be freely placed within your home. More chests can be bought and placed at anytime, of course!

The players' new clothes: the mannequin

Your very own Mannequin, in your very own living roomEverybody knows mannequins and hardly anyone has walked past shop windows without gawking at the clothing they are dressed in. In Runes of Magic players can put such mannequins in their houses: There are male ones and female ones and of course you can put several of them in your home. With one click the equipment screen appears where the players can dress up the mannequin with their own armor. That does not only look great but also has an additional advantage. If you are in a hurry and want to dress up for the next raid, with one click you can exchange the armor you are currently wearing with that which is on the mannequin.

Crafting sites: from blacksmith to alchemist
Everybody knows the problem. You just collected all the materials necessary for the next few armor sets and you are standing at one of the forges in the city when other players come by to ask: “Hi. You are a blacksmith, right? Please craft this-or-that item for me.”

Those who would rather quietly practice their profession can just put the necessary crafting sites in their house. There are anvils for blacksmiths, laboratories for alchemists or huge pots for chefs. For each profession the right equipment is available.

Crafting Bonus System
The crafting bonus for the house is displayed in the Residence information panel
Mouse over the "Craft X Bonus" line item to see all bonuses for the house
Crafting bonus increases experience and crafting speed for crafting performed in the house
Crafting bonus is calculated by dividing the number in the panel by 10
Most furniture provides a 10, 60 or 70 point bonus. This is a 1%, 6% or 7% bonus
Bonuses from multiple pieces of furniture are stacked
One account, eight characters, one house

Does this mean we split the rent?Below was advertised intent. However, it is incorrect.

It doesn’t matter how many characters you have, they all live in the same house. Therefore it is really easy to put the potions you just made into one of the chests and pick them up with the next character. No more of this annoying “One moment, got to switch my account”.

The reality is each character is currently able to have a house. Each will have to be adorned to gain bonuses for the currently logged in character. One character does not have access the the chests in another character's house by default.

A second password gives your home additional protection. You can pass it on to friends and family to give them access to your homestead.

In a recent update, the ability to add "residence friends" was added. The owner of a house can set storage chests to allow their contents to be viewed by residence friends, allow them to take items from chests, and/or allow them to place items into chests. This allows for easy transfer of items between multiple characters.

My home is my castle: expansion
In the near future it will become possible to expand your home. More floors, bigger rooms, attics, closets, as with all the features of Runes of Magic, the possibilities are nearly endless.

Click me: interaction with surrounding objects
Mannequins are not the only things that can be used with a short click. Also the flames in the fireplace and on the candlestick can be lit and give the house a homely atmosphere.

The future: more ideas

Some lovely chairs.Every three months a free add-on with fresh content for Runes of Magic will be published. That includes pieces of furniture and other additions for the house. It will be fascinating to see what will happen here, after all Halloween is at the doorstep and Christmas is not too far away.

The Runes of Magic community is highly important to us and for new creative ideas we like to pick the players brains. So, your visit to the forums, which are there for that purpose, is highly welcome.

Furniture with special attributes
There is some furniture which you can optain through the item shop for christals or Phirius tokens. Theese Items provide -once placed in your house- a bonus to your xp or tp while fighting mobs.

TP/XP Bonus system
You gain an TP/XP bonus at the top of every hour when in your house (give or take a few minutes).
Furniture-bonuses do stack
You will see that your xp-bar recieves an bonus-icon, when your recieved bonuses.
This bonus icon shows as an upward pointing yellow arrow on your experience bar.
Hovering the mouse over the bonus icon shows how much TP/XP bonus you accumulated.
The lower the TP/XP of the item is, the less bonus you will recieve.
The bonus is a "load up" value, you recieve the bonus on killing mobs / finishing quests.
You gain bonus dependant on your level:
At lvl 15, you get no bonus, when your house-furniture provides less then 15 TP/XP bonus
At lvl 20, you get no bonus, if your furniture provides less then 10 TP/XP bonus
Formula for TP/XP bonus gain per hour: (Furniture Bonus * Character level)/15 (round down)
Given level thresholds above, the formula "may" be as follows: [(Furniture Bonus / 15) * (Character Level / 15)] <-round down>--> times 15. Meaning if your (Furniture Bonus * Character level) is below 225, you get no bonus.
The bonus accumulates while in your house for both offline and online. It is advisable to log out while in your house.
Housekeeper

Not to mention something nice to look at.The Housekeeper is your key to unlocking furniture, design, energy use and other options for your home. Talking to her will open the House menu.