Project:Sandbox

== Player Housing – What’s in It for Me? ==

So, you’re thinking of buying a house in game, but you’re still not sure exactly what all the hype is about? Maybe you’ve seen all the costs and benefits on the player housing page and wondered, “How do I get one of those and what can it do for me?”  Hopefully the following information helps clear all that up!

==HOUSING BASICS==

1.  What is a player house?

The simple answer is that a player house is almost anything you make it. The player house is a room or series of rooms designed to your own specifications! It may be a one-room dwelling with limited facilities that’s roleplay-based, for example The Trash Panda’s Trashcan in a back alley behind the Truce Bar. It may be an extravagant, sprawling multi-room mansion based on Cleft lore that’s large enough filled with enough amenities to rival a small village. It could even be a pub that’s open to all players as a respite from furious adventuring.

2. What types of player houses are there?

Single-player housing—This is the most common type and is designed for the use of the purchasing player.

Shared housing—There are two possibilities with shared housing. It could be that you want a house that your main character shares with your own other characters (alts). It could also be a home that you choose to share with other players in the game. With this type, the cost for each room and amenity must be paid by all occupants of the house.

Publicly accessible housing—This would be a public facility that you generously decided to provide to all the players in the Cleft. You could set up a bar, a shop, a restaurant or an inn for public use. You might even decide to offer a miniquest as a fun and exciting diversion!

3. Why would anyone even be interested in having a house?

Players choose to have homes for a wide variety of reasons. It may be just to have a place to unwind between adventures, to have something to show off to other players or just to have a piece of their imagination permanently enshrined in the Cleft. There are, however, some very tangible benefits as seen in the section below!

==HOUSING FEATURES & BENEFITS==

1. Portals

2. A Personalized Shopkeeper

3. A Moogle Maid

4. A Servbot Helper

5. A Training Dummy

6. A House Pet

7. A Pokeball Vending Machine

8. A Fountain

9. A Piece of Furniture

10. A Banker

11. A Mage

12. A Necromancer

13. A Mana Treant Orchard

14. A Cooking Station

15. A Krak Pot

16.  A Polychromatic Crystal

17.  Farm Animals

18. A Locker

19.  A Combat Simulation Room

20. Equipment Mannequins

21. A Faithful Companion

22. A Keyring

==STANDARD HOUSE AND PORTAL LOCATIONS==

By default, you may choose to build your home in any of the standard villages and towns throughout the Cleft. One important factor to consider when choosing the site for your initial homestead is that you must be able to access the location before you can use it as a home. So, for example, if you think you’d like to choose Gold City, just remember you will have to be able to get to Gold City before actually using your home. Areas that are level-restricted, as in the Gold City example by a level 50 ferry ticket, could be a little harder to reach at the beginning of a remort!

All of the villages and towns available for housing locations are also available as standard portals for your house. Each portal costs gold based on its level, its rank status, and its distance from the location you choose for your house. For more information, please see the player housing page.

^Pioneer 2 is currently only a default portal location and not suitable for a standard player house.

==MAKING THAT PURCHASE!==

Now that you know all about housing and have decided that you can’t do without one, what’s the next step?