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What makes a good house?

R3D Z3R0

R3D Z3R0

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This is more of an opinion poll/discussion than anything else. In your opinion, what makes a good house? Location? Many doors? Something that looks realistic and could really be a house in real life? Has to be square? Has to be completely random?

Be specific, and add screenshots as examples. I'm genuinely curious to know if anyone can answer that.
 
Semi-realism, a house isn't symmetrical in any way, nor does one house look EXACTLY like another, they all have (at least) subtle differences.

As for windows, they aren't meant to be spammed or over-used, keep it to a minimum if possible (same with doors I guess, but there should only be 1 maybe 2 doors).

Spice it up a little too though, make shapes of different sizes & shapes, don't make all of them 5x5 boxes with standard roof & 1 floor, throw some apartments in or a highrise, put some decoration around them (eg. put a garden out back of a couple houses and make it shared, or throw down a few more flowers then normal in one place and call it Nature Street or something.

Giving the houses character and trying to model something along a small 'back-story' or to comply with lore when you're creating / modifying the houses really helps you to easily make them interesting and look nice.
 
Houses should be different as Icy said. But IMO if you make a neighborhood with townhouses it's not a bad thing to do, 5-6 houses that are the exact same. Like Venore is kinda. One some roads in Venore houses are the exact same. You just gotta think about what kind of a server you want to have. If it's high rate, people want big houses to decorate and show off their earnings.
 
Illusion said:
Imo all houses neat atleast a bed, and a table with maybe a locker on it. Makes it just more realistic for me xd.
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Furniture is usually available via NPC in most servers, why not leave it unfurnished for the buyer to arrange as they wish?
 
I like my house <3
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Nice little house, I like it! What does it look like upstairs? Wait...can you close the west window shutters?
 
From the outside, and I haven't done the upstairs xD it was just for showoff.
 
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