I’ve seen quite a few good housing ideas so far so I just wanted to share mine as well. I think we can all agree on the fact that right now housing is basically just free teleports and storage devices, but it could be so much more.
My idea is to allow us as house owners to have servants whose purpose will be to collect recourses from the territory of which the house is located. We should be able to manage what recourse will be collected in a given day and how many servants you can have depending on the house tier. We can even have a leveling/talent system to these gathering NPCs in the future.
I think this will add an interesting twist to owning a house as well as remove a very tedious aspect of the game - gathering essential daily recourses. Now you can argue that this will overflow the market, but we already have bots farming 24/7 and the market is doing just fine. Going forward I believe these bots will be removed and the servant system will act as a nice alternative to provide a flow of necessary recourses.
Like in FF14, you can give them different “jobs” for exemple: Mining
Then he can only mine specific ores depend on your skill (you need 200mining that your ‘servant’ can mine ori) and you need to pay him a lil fee for a week or so.
They shouldn’t go gather real nodes, just give them order to farm and then you have X-% that they come back with Z amount of ore in a specific amount of time
Well you will not physically be seeing them, it will be more like UI only system that you access from your house. Also I am hopeful that in the coming months the bot situation will be improved.