DeletedUser2029
Proposal:
add the ability to upgrade or downgrade houses to increase income or population per house
Have you Checked the Ideas section for the same idea posted by someone else? Is this idea similar to one that has been previously suggested?
currently there are none
Reason:
it's a silly reason because the idea is silly; realism. I think that each type of house should be adapted to 3 social classes: peasants, citizens and aristocracy (low income - high population, high income - low population, current houses as "normal")
Details:
there are 4 variables that can be changed to accomplish this idea; space, production time, income and population.
- to change the production time has been suggested, it's a bad idea because we already have those kind of alternatives
- to change the size of houses means some (a lot) extra designing and programming, so no
- changing the income/population is workable because they can be co-dependent, so I propose three types of houses
citizens - houses we have now, no change
peasants - low income, high population (normal income becomes 50% of citizens house, population increases by 25%, or in case of Roof tile house: 9 coins in 15 minutes (11 at 120% happiness), population 55)
aristocracy - high income, low population (normal income becomes 120% of citizens house, population decrease by 25%, or in case of Roof tile House: 21 coins in 15 minutes (23 at 120% happiness), population 33)
Visual Aids:
none needed
Balance:
add an indicator to the mouseover cloud that a house was enhanced (simple U or D), this should be hidden from other players, if possible
the option to up/downgrade should come up in the pop-up menu when clicking on a house (players should have the option to up/downgrade each house separately)
Abuse Prevention:
I get that this might be put in the "make myself richer" category, but I tried to balance things with current ingame ratios.
as for creating imbalance, consider this
if you upgrade your RtH, that means you get more money, but you lost an entire house on every 4 built
if you downgrade your RtH, you gained some extra space but for every built you need to build at least another decoration to keep your happiness at 120%
this might look like people would start building slow peasant houses and fast aristocratic houses but consider that that much of an income loss on slow houses might not pay off for less active players (they might welcome the option tho gain more money with slow houses, especially in the beggining if they're in large guild/neighborhood)
also, give the option to upgrade and downgrade each house only one time (basically for a large sum of coins and supplies, player could try this option and return to a normal house)
Summary:
adding realism is a silly reason and this is not something I strongly support, but I do feel that the current housing system is too restrictive and some diversity wouldn't hurt.
add the ability to upgrade or downgrade houses to increase income or population per house
Have you Checked the Ideas section for the same idea posted by someone else? Is this idea similar to one that has been previously suggested?
currently there are none
Reason:
it's a silly reason because the idea is silly; realism. I think that each type of house should be adapted to 3 social classes: peasants, citizens and aristocracy (low income - high population, high income - low population, current houses as "normal")
Details:
there are 4 variables that can be changed to accomplish this idea; space, production time, income and population.
- to change the production time has been suggested, it's a bad idea because we already have those kind of alternatives
- to change the size of houses means some (a lot) extra designing and programming, so no
- changing the income/population is workable because they can be co-dependent, so I propose three types of houses
citizens - houses we have now, no change
peasants - low income, high population (normal income becomes 50% of citizens house, population increases by 25%, or in case of Roof tile house: 9 coins in 15 minutes (11 at 120% happiness), population 55)
aristocracy - high income, low population (normal income becomes 120% of citizens house, population decrease by 25%, or in case of Roof tile House: 21 coins in 15 minutes (23 at 120% happiness), population 33)
Visual Aids:
none needed
Balance:
add an indicator to the mouseover cloud that a house was enhanced (simple U or D), this should be hidden from other players, if possible
the option to up/downgrade should come up in the pop-up menu when clicking on a house (players should have the option to up/downgrade each house separately)
Abuse Prevention:
I get that this might be put in the "make myself richer" category, but I tried to balance things with current ingame ratios.
as for creating imbalance, consider this
if you upgrade your RtH, that means you get more money, but you lost an entire house on every 4 built
if you downgrade your RtH, you gained some extra space but for every built you need to build at least another decoration to keep your happiness at 120%
this might look like people would start building slow peasant houses and fast aristocratic houses but consider that that much of an income loss on slow houses might not pay off for less active players (they might welcome the option tho gain more money with slow houses, especially in the beggining if they're in large guild/neighborhood)
also, give the option to upgrade and downgrade each house only one time (basically for a large sum of coins and supplies, player could try this option and return to a normal house)
Summary:
adding realism is a silly reason and this is not something I strongly support, but I do feel that the current housing system is too restrictive and some diversity wouldn't hurt.