housing got decoration hooks :((

I got half caught between a laugh and a groan, and nearly chocked on my sandwich...

Will you at least acknowledge that the hook is only the starting or center point of the area? The system clearly allows you to slide items around and rotate it after you place it. In the classic "hook" system you seem to be describing you do not have that option.

The extent to which you adjust items after placement is still up for debate, but it's pretty clear this is not the simple hook system you keep saying it is.

Didn't they specifically say at a Cantina Event that the housing system was unlike LOTRO? IIRC, Someone asked about the GSH expac, and specifically mentioned LOTRO. If the devs said that the housing system was unlike LOTRO, then it would be pretty ridiculous for us to respond to this news with "HEY GUYS IT'S LOTRO HOUSING LOOK, /UNSUB."

I'm not suggesting we all hop on the bandwagon, but I am suggesting cautious optimism. This looks more complex than I assumed they would make GSH... It's not free placement, but let's check out the stream today and see what it's all about more specifically.

Nope not new. Been around before launch but a girl can hope can't she?

Since you used Rift dimensions as an example, but then mentioned a complex editor...

Rift has an incredibly user-friendly, simple to use interface. If you just drag items into the world you can place them freely, including small items on top of tables, etc (which works like a "hook system" since items will want to snap into specific places at first). Yet you also have the ability to place these items ANYWHERE, including up and down, rotated any direction, and enlarged.

A truly customizable decorating system doesn't have to be complex at all.

true also wildstar housing is pretty easy to use and it got no hooks!

If I wanted to play WoW in space, I'd still be playing Warcraft.

While it would be nice to be able to put things where we want, I suspect that adding calculations as to where everything is to stronghold load might slow loading down a lot and bog the game down as a whole if lots of people were loading at once.

I wonder if each profession has its own special thing to make ar if it will be like augment kits. (Generic item craftable by several professions)

I'm not sure that storing a coordinate and orientation would be all that more complex to store than storing which type of hook pattern was used, which hook it's attached to, and the offset/rotation information. If I were to guess it would be between limiting the amount of stuff you can place at once, an issue of trying to design an intuitive UI, or for aesthetic reasons they didn't want a crazy mess of things clipping into each other.

I think it will be like augments. The kit (legacy bank) would be crafted by multiple professions, but the other stuff will be more specialized. Cybertech might make computer terminals, artifice cool crystal decorations, armstech would make gun lockers, and synthweavers would make couches. Or something like that.

I think this hook system is extremely flexibe.
It's about the closest thing we are going to get to a completely free system without actually making it so you can place tables in the ceiling or chairs on walls (ps. you should try that at home... it's harder than you'd think).

What I'd really like to know, though, is if my stronghold will look the same for all my characters in that legacy. In other words, if my sith warrior decorates his Nar Shaddaa stronghold with a ton of skulls and blood fountains, is my jedi consular going to faint when she enters her Nar Shaddaa stronghold and discovers it's been filled with skulls and blood fountains?