[Autumn]

I don't really wish to comment too too much but I will at least type some of my thoughts when it comes to this thread. For one I do think that one of the old roles of housing in G6 has been taken over by the mapping team, when it comes to assembling guilds or groups, or hospitals or pubs, those should be viewable in the public eye for all to see, as I do believe those being the congregation of all players on G6 was a bit of a problem sometimes for new players to get into, especially to those who feel anxious about inviting themselves where they feel they aren't wanted. Meiaquar's pub is a good example of an area where a new player can immediately see the activity happening in the game and try to get involved.

But since the mapping team now seems to have these aspects covered, I am much more open to the idea of player housing being actual housing, whether you make an office, a ranch, a townhouse, tent, some cave what have you, these could be set up to work pretty well I feel like, to this end I don't want housing to work exactly like it does in G6, but having somewhere at the end of the day that one of my characters retires to that feels like their own space to share with people is just a good idea at fleshing out tools players can use to express their character's personality.

I don't really think there needs to be any sort of GM wall on this kind of thing either though, I'm fine with houses being about half the size they were with no additional floors, as  there are some aspects you simply cannot capture in such small areas, for instance one of the goals of my character Riley is to build her own homestead, which I would reflect in game with such a feature.

On a side note, I'm not sure how exactly people already congregating into private areas means the solution to such a thing would be to make more private areas, I like the idea but this explanation behind it doesn't exactly jive with me either, you just simply can't control where players want to be or who they want to interact with, we would simply need more players for the public gathering areas to be a lot more bustling than they are currently. Really it just tells me there's not enough people wanting to engage with other people, and instead want to stick to their close friends as they will be assured that they can do better storytelling together.