I have been dreaming about WoW having similar Housing system that Ultima Online has had back in the days, where you could design your own home, or a marvelous castle even. Where you could be your own King.
In UO you needed first to get the land for the house. Land plots could be different sizes as in UO the biggest ones were 30x30 for example and smallest ones 10x10. In UO however “the problem” was the land limit as houses were placed across the world. Players were competing about the plots and you were able to sell the plot with its architecture, or without it. This created some players also real estate agents.
But there WoW should design something new and a little bit different system as the land in WoW’s world would become an issue. The land areas would be ruined with the houses.
For example Final Fantasy has Housing areas, which is a bad system due to homes getting limited as well due to land area size. That way rich players can dominate that area. New players would never get a chance to own a house, because you know richer will get even more rich, if they just continued playing.
At UO it had also IDOC system (In Danger of Collapsing), where houses dropped after a certain time and the loot was put on ground for players to take. This created a lot of world PvP amongst the TOP guilds. Problem at this was also that TOP guilds got extremely rich too and their TOP “IDOCers” especially. I know this, because I was one of those TOP IDOCers in that game. There was a certain math based system that you were able to calculate correct time for the house to collapse aka go IDOC.
In New World you can not design your own houses as well. Only just to personalize them.
For house designs in WoW different kind of architecture items such as different design of floors, roofs, walls and so on could be rare loots as well from different parts of the world. Not to mention the decoration drops for your house. These would be about tiles; one floor item as example is one tile like in UO. Then you get to have maximum of let’s say 6 floors you can build that will cost you more money obviously.
Kinda similar with Garrison’s drop system.
Garrison’s problem was that it looked more like a guild’s home than single player one’s.
So, in my opinion this would let players to get really creative in terms of Housing! Currently I really love WoW’s Transmogging system and hence wished the game had a true Housing architecture system as well.
The Housing system should be able to be visited as well by visitors. Not just for your personal access. This is what I kind of liked in FF’s Housing system. It gave options for players to roleplay social events for example.
Let players get more creative Blizzard!
Just don’t make the Housing system more a grind system as the game’s most of the things are. We need less grinding systems in-game in my honest opinion. Should be achievable via some other systems too.