Rumor: The Old Republic to have player housing?

I don't know why but I'm still not hooked by this game.

New interview tactic - wait until they are about to leave and ask the most tired looking person a load of questions

I want mine to be the Death Star.

If it ain't seamless with player cities and the ability to make your own shops and decorate witha great crafting system then I don't care. I hate like what EQ2 had with instanced housing because it didn't feel meaningful in the world.

I'm not sure. A problem is that player housing works best when the game isn't divided into factions. It's immersion killing if factions are at war or at cross-puposes, yet can go on over to each other's house for tea and cookies. TOR has the whole light/darkside mechanic, so its either a choice between killing immersion and letting jedi and sith hang out in private housing, or restricting it to each faction-darksiders only can go into darksiders, and vice versa.

It's part of a bigger issue in how they resolve the light and darkside working together or not.

i just hope housing is based on a customizable (inside) ship that has windows in to space and planets (depending on where you enter it) But thats just this old fans wishs >_>

It's friggin' Star Wars. To hell with housing, give us customizeable starships ala the Ebon Hawk.

Although it was a bit harsh compared to the games we have today, Ultima Online had some interesting housing system. You needed to build a blueprint of the house, a lot of money to build it, and you can leave your stuff there and decorate. But the REAL thing is: the house REALLY existed there, for you and fr everyone.

People could break in and steal your stuff, if your house were bad protected. Only that small feature made housing much more appealing and serious. If you want a house, and need a house, you need to have the means to protect it, not just create an empty infinite instance on the void, where you can drop anything you want, limitlessly, and other people don´t even know or see it.

It could lead to a lot of interesting features. Insurances, security guards, defensive systems, and even some criminal system, where players caught breaking into houses by NPCs or other players, could get a bounty on them or something like that. They could pay a fee, or try to escape or fight, increasing and decreasing the bounty, much like they did on Oblivion, or maybe even the PK system from UO.

You can't have iconic Star Wars without the ability to win the Millennium Falcon in a card game.