why strongholds and not your ship

I cant even begin to imagine how many thousands of lines of code and script are built into those ships to run all those cutscenes, animations, conversations etc they would be crazy to add housing commands ontop of those

Hopefully. At the very least different wall decorations would be nice.

I'm not against appartments, but I also don't think the "because it's too hard" is really a viable reason to not allow some minimal customization to ships. Yes, it will never be to the same extent as you'll get with this, but it would be nice to have.

I looked at it the very same way.

When the guild was thinking about this and why they didn't just use ships, someone said:

"Most times it's easier to build the exact same brand new house from scratch then to remodel the same old house to be new."

That made sense to me. They needed new tech to accomplish everything and the old ships were tied into to much old code to really be feasible in remodeling. Time to create a new home with better perks.

Just to voice my opinion through the words of another-- this is what I think. The ship is mainly where you live while you travel, while the stronghold/house is where you live when you want to "truly" be at home. I personally cannot wait for this, and think it's such an awesome thought. Housing has always been a way to increase immersion, and I think it's a step in the very right direction for MMOs nowadays, especially one with such an immersive setting as Star Wars.

This is the exact reason why, kudos to your guildie who came up with that perfectly logical and yet simple explanation.

Already explained: not all ships utilize their space the same way. Furthermore the Jedi and Sith ships are shared between the classes and even their cutscenes are different. Do you make insertable stuff specific for each class? That's gone over real well with gear.

And what happens when they add another HK/Treek companion? Not to mention as someone else pointed out, not everyone gets all their companions' stories done by level 55.


It's not that it's too hard to make ships customizable...it's that it's easier to do separate apartments. The man-hour investment to accomplish the latter is a fraction of the former. That translates into a higher ROI.

Lastly, considering that they cannot even get the unify colors feature to stick on companions during cut scenes, I can only imagine the chaos customized decor on ships would wreak.

Also... every toon gets a ship (well... almost every one.. I had a guildie who leveled to 50 thru PvP and never got a ship). The ships we get are not persistent... they only spawn when we board them. This saves ongoing resources, of course, but also means that if you have anyone else there (only party members.. not even raids can board them) and you disconnect, they get booted to the planet.

Since Strongholds will cost cnsiderable money, there will likely be less of them than there are of player ships. Add to this the ability to put them on different planets and the ability to add rooms, etc. and the idea of doing all of this on a player ship becomes unworkable.

Because Bioware appears to have this desire to splinter the games population more and more and more for some reason.

It does seem to be that way a bit. Given I'm not a big housing person(fortresses like in NWN2 are awesome though) and I spent all of ten seconds on it in Skyrim, but Bioware's updates seem to be very anti-centralization. A lot of players did ask for that, reasons to leave fleet and the like. What with events, pvp, gsf, gf flashpoints, GSI, and now soon to be guild flagships and housing, its only a matter of time before fleet is virtually uninhabited. That kind of situation seems to practically demand some form of server wide chat.

People have been asking for housing for a long time. Now they are getting it. Cool .The only thing as far as housing that is important to me is Legacy storage. Decorations and that yade ya meh. Same as a ship.