Why do people lock their houses...

[Ilum]

This is so annoying. Ran a mile to get some cheap powerpots. Then when I arrived at the house, I looked for the nearest Shrouded Isles / Heroes / Castle Sauvage teleporter. However, I was in a guild village and every single house was locked. Except One. Where I didn't have merchant access.

Took me about 10 mins to port out. Needless to say, I wont be running over to that house to buy powerpots again.

If you have a house, please

1) Give everyone access to your house
2) Give everyone access to your merchants

It's not like there's any harm in doing so.

 

[Ezeine]

Agreed, hence why I kept my house open for porters.

 

[Sobek]

its to annoy people like you Ilum

 

[Esoteric]

Concured

If you want to sell your goods then please open up your house to at least use the porters. Running around a housing zone looking for goods isn't pleasant at the best of times but to find a crafters house locked or all the houses around it is most annoying and they don't get visited again ;p.

Fair enough if you have your own house for private things and don't want to sell goods but if you do open up fgs!!..

 

[old.windforce]

can even place things in my house

just not remove

 

[Mathal]

Being new to this housing stuff, will the default settings allow anyone to visit my house and use my merchants, or do I have to set the privilegies manually?

I haven't even thought about this, so thank you Ilum for pointing it out.

 

[Escape]

The default setting is locked to all, so you'll need to edit it using /housefriend
Make a group for "Everyone" and give them access to house and merchants



Our guild house is generally open to all, except for guild-cybor nights when the doors are locked oO

 

[Bubble]

wow i agree with Ilum!? (Rare!)
Hes posted a good point!? (Even Rarer!)

Theres no harm in letting people use your teleporter etc, think if they have ran a long distance to spend 5P on your CM the least you could do is let them port after

 

[Garaen]

Agree, it's very annoying. But some people don't realise that there house is locked (As it auto start's as locked)

 

[shani]

can even place things in my house

just not remove

You mean OUR house

 

[Lubbock]

Aye had the same problem bought what i needed, ran to 10 house, 9 were locked the last was open but no access to merchants.
People let us see your wonderfull homes and let us port out fast, after all we did just buy stuff from your merchant

 

[Gryllus]

I agree with Ilum, better to open the house, and give merchant access.

Another good idea is to use the market return tokens. Spare 10 minutes of knocking on doors and persuading merchants, port back to the market closest to your own house / guild house in 5 seconds.

Market return tokens can be bought at any market, from a merchant standing near the market explorer.
You can use them like this: give it to any consignment merchant, and you will be teleported back to the market where you bought the token. (Dalton market return token is the tokens full name, for instance.)

I have a lvl44 minstrel for market duties, she always has all the market return tokens. When I find something (scrolls ofc) I want to buy, I port to the zone where the house is, but a return token to be able to port there next time, find the house, buy the scroll, and port back to old sarum market, where my house stands.

 

[SoulFly]

My house's locked because:

a) I don't want people in it, exept friends.
b) see a.
c) see b.

Sorry.

 

[stanleycup]

can even place things in my house

just not remove

Your house :touch:

 

[cHodAX]

My house's locked because:

a) I don't want people in it, exept friends.
b) see a.
c) see b.

Sorry.

Don't want people finding your porno mags under the bed eh?

 

[Linnet]

Mine's locked because it doesn't have any merchants, I just use Gai's

 

['Shy]

can even place things in my house

just not remove

/em looks around to see how many people have spare skeleton trophies to dump

 

[Amuse]

I totaly agree.

Its so anoying first runing to the house that owns the CM, then finding the house to be locked, and the whole naighbourhood locked to.. then you hafto run from house to house to find an open house, with open porters.

The most ive spendt runing around looking for a porter is 20 mins or so

Open your houses, its not like anyone can go on a frenzy and destroy everything inside

 

[Moth Twiceborn]

Oops! I checked mine, and sure enough - locked.

I'll fix that now...

 

[Shanaia]

Open house at Moth's place!!

I'll bring the Ale someone bring Steaks!!

 

[Derric]

Just make a minstrelbot and pl it to ML10, will never have to worry about porting then \o/

 

[Dook]

Don't want people finding your porno mags under the bed eh?

My mum did that.

I was whacking off to them at the time too...

Worst day of my fucking life tbh

 

[Bubble]

My mum did that.

I was whacking off to them at the time too...

Worst day of my fucking life tbh

too much info

 

[SoulFly]

Don't want people finding your porno mags under the bed eh?

If I actually had any, I would keep em on the table.

 

[Jaem-]

Hmm, heres a reason, if you live in a rough neighbourhood...

http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/y00f/lockyourdoor.JPG

 

[old.windforce]

You mean OUR house

as in the one i use, not possess you nitpicker

 

[Huntingtons]

My house's locked because:

a) I don't want people in it, exept friends.
b) see a.
c) see b.

Sorry.

thats coz you're a crappy designer

feel free to enter my house its ripped tho

 

[Wmv]

just use the tokens you can buy that ports you back to market explorer after you give it to any CM

 

[XeffoInfil]

but then we want to port to GH or ToA

 

[Morchaoron]

Why do people lock their houses...

roleplaying ofc!!!!

irl people lock their houses too, although no one can take your stuff ingame or can truly annoy you (and if they do a simple /boot gets rid of them but i never had to do that)...

ok ok... want to know the real reason people lock their house?


because there is a macroing trick inside the house (no joke btw!), and if no one else can enter no one will be able to witness and report it thus it will never get fixed !!!!!!

hah foiled yer evil exploiting plans!

(my house was never locked btw)