Ready rooms are so passé! We need a slick pad in Haven to put our arsenals, not some half-assed junk pod we call a "ready room". Get your house on bro!
Stupid slang aside, houses are an idea that have been suggested time and time again. Most of us say it would ruin the game, others support. I'm on the middle of the fence.
Some friends of mine IRL, who also play SK, were brainstorming a housing idea. We imagined a private, custom version of Guildhalls. We came out with this:
Shanty of snipes
Haven Houses can be purchased for 25k (same price as a 5* recipe). The interior resembles the outside color scheme, just--inside.
Knights are given some items to customize their homes at first (pod, uplink, table, chair, stuff like Bechamels shop, etc). Knights can purchase additional house items for their Haven Houses through crown sinks (the game needs some more crown sinks IMO). They're cosmetic, like Accessories. A vendor in Haven sells them. (Rudkin?)
A more eternal stay
A Moorcroft Hotel Room is worth 10k. They resemble a Candlestick Keep (CSK). In order to visit them, you must pay the elevator fee and descend to Moorcroft.
Moorcroft Hotel Rooms will be smaller than Haven Houses, and are only available to T2 and up. They come with the bonus of purchasing Undead/Fiend related stuff like you would find in a CSK. The items are cheaper, but there are less of them. A vendor in Moorcroft sells them. (Concierge zombie?)
Emberlights in the dark
Emberlight houses can be purchased for 10k, like the Moorcroft Hotel Rooms. They resemble a room in the ICMF interior. You must also pay an elevator fee to visit them.
Mechanical/Gremlin gear can be purchased for your house from an Emberlight vendor. (Hooded gremlin guy?)
Like this idea? Don't like it? Have feedback? Post below.
I really don't know wether housing is a good idea in this game. It just doesn't feel right to me... though that's all personal opinion.
However, IF we really are going to have houses, then houses should be a great privileg. Not something everyone could have. The price for a 5*-recipe seems too cheap to me. We are comparing a house to a small piece of paper(is it paper?) full of information here(granted, it's a useful piece of paper, but still).
I would at the very least(if not higher) quadruple the price for a haven house(100k, now that's an amount for a house. Still nothing compared to featured auctions, but still quite a sum), and make the decoration eat extraordinary amounts of crowns, and also quite a bit materials for some(we need to drain that giant pool. I think Fehzor had an idea that involved advanced gate construction with the help of craploads of materials, but well, decoration for houses might do part of the job, too).
Houses shouldn't be something everyone can afford after farming a boss mission a little bit. Houses are... well, houses, and should be obscenely expensive in comparison to other things.
But that was just a thought. I'm still not sure wether I should like this or not.