Dev Blog: Let's Brainstorm about Housing

[alleryn]

I think it would be interesting to integrate housing with an expansion to the hangout idea.

The notion would be that your home is a place where you could devote a long time to an extended project where you could focus in near- or total- isolation.

These hangouts could play out like choose-your-own-adventures with mini-quests. So for example:

• You decide to summon a demon (~12 days = 288 hours of offline time total. Next decision point in 12 hours.):
• So you start reading books on demon summoning and drawing the pentagram. After 12 hours offline have passed the player is given a summary of what s/he has learned in their studies (the amount of information provided to the player could depend on how much they've upgraded their home's library) and presented with a few options:
  
  • Reinforce the pentagram with salt (Requires x amount of salt, you can continue the hangout when you've filled the quest requirement)
  • Find someone to help with incantation protections (Find an npc with whom you have enough favor who will help you with the ritual -- maybe this is such a personal commitment that it costs favor points with the npc)
• Then whichever choice is made starts a new section of hangout. Say "You decide to reinforce the pentagram with salt (8 hours) ~272 hours remaining. At the end of that, the player gets a new selection of options on how to proceed.

etc, etc