ArenaNet Staff Rubi Bayer.8493 Posted July 31 ArenaNet Staff Share Posted July 31 Andrew Gray and Joel Eckert, two of the designers working on homesteads, have answers to your homestead questions. Read on! 5 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randulf.7614 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 There’s a lot of clever tech going on here to recognise things character dependant. I’d be interested to know how long this was in development for since a lot of work must have gone into it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason.3485 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 I would love to display trophies and achievement and high end gear unlocks like in GW1 Hall of Monuments. Is that going to be similar in homesteads as well? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotDelirium.7984 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Another top question would be is this the only type of homestead exterior/plot of land we will be getting? Is a new one planned for every expansion? Some of us aren't into this specific aesthetic. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raseus.2543 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 7 minutes ago, Jason.3485 said: I would love to display trophies and achievement and high end gear unlocks like in GW1 Hall of Monuments. Is that going to be similar in homesteads as well? We know we get both weapon displays as well as statues that can wear your armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luthan.5236 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Sounds a bit less interesting now - but I alread read in other threads where people had been discussing that the homesteads would require the owner to be online and max 5 people (in the party) could visit them. Fixed locations for the nodes: ... I would have preferred a bit more customization options. (To be able to at least move them a bit in a certain area. There seem to be areas that are mentioned ... lumber mill will probably have the wood/tree nodes close to it.) Hopefully it is efficient to gather - so we won't prefer the home instance instead. 😄 Being able to move the chars that are logged sounds nice. (If it correctly remembers the position. I exect it to have bugs in the beginning ... like: You logging into the other char and logging out in the homestead again and it resets them to the default position instead to the one you moved them towards.) Crafting ... I'd have preferred a manual levelling. On the other hand: There might be less trash you have to craft to level it now. And nice that this way it will not use a crafting discipline slot ... if just unlocking the mastery lets you interact with the station with recipes unlocked. Then again ... masteries have only a few levels while in the usual system from 0 to 400 (or 500) you have a lot of small steps. Like every 25 something new unlocked. (A bit more than the usual maybe 5-7 mastery line steps.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batel.9206 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Ah... I'd hoped a squad could visit, not just a party. Oh well. Perhaps in a future update? (Pretty please with a quaggan on top?) Thank you for answering some questions! Looking forward to this. 😄 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiyabeth.7529 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 How many cats are we allowed to have in our homesteads? That's arguably the most important and gameplay impacting question. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwinLi.1284 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Other than our alt characters, I wonder if we may get NPCs that we can customize later for our homestead so we can expand on the Homestead into maybe a small town if players wanted to develop it that way. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 20 minutes ago, Batel.9206 said: Ah... I'd hoped a squad could visit, not just a party. Oh well. Perhaps in a future update? (Pretty please with a quaggan on top?) Thank you for answering some questions! Looking forward to this. 😄 It sounds like you can invite more players than just a party: Players who are not in a party can use the door to request a party invitation from the door owner, and the owner interacting with the door will initiate the instance-transfer countdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorani.7205 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Will the new decoration placements option be moved over to guild hall decorations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlothPowah.1072 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Will more utility-focused decorations be available? I would love to build my own VIP lounge with crafting stations and a trading post. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 16 minutes ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: It sounds like you can invite more players than just a party: Players who are not in a party can use the door to request a party invitation from the door owner, and the owner interacting with the door will initiate the instance-transfer countdown. If you, "request a party invitation," from someone whose party is already full now what happens? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Dunno. Does one have to stay in a party once entering the Homestead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashen.2907 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 1 hour ago, Inculpatus cedo.9234 said: Does one have to stay in a party once entering the Homestead? Good question. If you leave a party while visiting someone's home instance now you get kicked (I think). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batel.9206 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 26 minutes ago, Ashen.2907 said: Good question. If you leave a party while visiting someone's home instance now you get kicked (I think). Can confirm, you do. I wonder if it will be the same for homesteads. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 If it was meant to accommodate more players than 1 party, they'd probably use "squad" instead. It might be a simple wording mistake, but doubt it is, probably max 5 and if you leave the party, you're kicked out of the instance. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parasite.5389 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 2 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said: If you, "request a party invitation," from someone whose party is already full now what happens? same thing that happens when you try to join a full party normally, you get told the party is full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randin.5701 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, Luthan.5236 said: Sounds a bit less interesting now - but I alread read in other threads where people had been discussing that the homesteads would require the owner to be online and max 5 people (in the party) could visit them. Fixed locations for the nodes: ... I would have preferred a bit more customization options. (To be able to at least move them a bit in a certain area. There seem to be areas that are mentioned ... lumber mill will probably have the wood/tree nodes close to it.) Hopefully it is efficient to gather - so we won't prefer the home instance instead. 😄 It's already been confirmed that there will be a post-launch feature where you will be able to go up to a single gathering station and harvest from every node at once with one click. So if the node placement is less efficient than the home instance, it'll only be an issue for the next three months or so. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linken.6345 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 2 minutes ago, Randin.5701 said: It's already been confirmed that there will be a post-launch feature where you will be able to go up to a single gathering station and harvest from every node at once with one click. So if the node placement is less efficient than the home instance, it'll only be an issue for the next three months or so. Yeaso 3 clicks then 1 for ores, 1 for woods and 1 for plants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
who want blood.8765 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, SlothPowah.1072 said: Will more utility-focused decorations be available? I would love to build my own VIP lounge with crafting stations and a trading post. Jade batteries and Canach's Casino machines for mine please! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gop.8713 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 32 minutes ago, Randin.5701 said: It's already been confirmed that there will be a post-launch feature where you will be able to go up to a single gathering station and harvest from every node at once with one click. So if the node placement is less efficient than the home instance, it'll only be an issue for the next three months or so. Will that one click still give me the benefit of my glyphs . . ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArenaNet Staff Rubi Bayer.8493 Posted July 31 Author ArenaNet Staff Share Posted July 31 3 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said: If you, "request a party invitation," from someone whose party is already full now what happens? I've got an answer for that--as well as a few extra bits of info about how Conjured Doorways behave in the world. 🙂 If the door owner's party is full, there won't be a request option and the door will look closed. Additionally, interacting with any other player's door gives you the option to hide it for yourself. Your door is automatically hidden from players you have blocked. We'll be sharing many more details this Friday on the livestream--don't miss it! 7 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natta.8905 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 One question: Will Janthir Wilds (including ones Homestead) have scrolls? Such as the Arborstone Scroll etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gop.8713 Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 (edited) The blocked bit is definitely cool. My block list is empty, but it's nice to see that feature getting some more functionality . . . EDIT: Regarding the above, the blog post mentions that access to the homestead will be via a mastery skill. Hopefully this is an attempt to address scroll/tome bloat . . . Edited July 31 by Gop.8713 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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