Note:Not overall housing item limits. These for me personally seem pretty generous. Its the limits for specific item types that I am discussing here.
I totally understand that housing item limits are here for a reason. If you have ever seen one of those crazy houses where people decided to place enough beds above their house to BLOT OUT THE SUN! Then you know that the devs are constantly at war with allowing creativity and preventing abuse from players looking to break the game (or genuine players looking to push the creative limits of course).
The prompt for this post though is that I encountered another limit (at least to my understanding) and that is, animated housing items. I actually submitted in-game feedback and feel bad because I figured out why I could not place the item so it is unlikely a bug, I just had to remove an animated item first. For players that are not aware, although most probably are, there are also limits on the number of lights allowed in houses. Again these limits make sense because I imagine lighting and animated items are two things that can easily break the game, lag out servers, etc.
I am wondering though, is it possible to increase some of these limits? Most people have not encountered the animated item one because they are mostly limited to in-game purchases (not everyone gets as excited as me about housing items), but for lighting I imagine nearly all players have hit that limit before because its so low. From a creative perspective I wonder if there is a way to increase the limit such that this limit goes unnoticed by most players and only hit by people trying to abuse the system or try some creative shenanigans.
Its kinda psychological. If you have lets say 3 lighting sources for a small house now, people likely going to want to naturally place up to maybe 5? in a small space? So if you set the limit to 6 then most players will never hit this and never feel restricted, even though there still is a limit. (def test what this natural limit is for each house by having some of your in-game testers decorate a house and see what they naturally want to place, then take the upper limit of that)
Just a thought. Likely a similar thing with animated items as well.
Haha yeah, we all know someone will break it if they could have over 200 lights in their house haha. I am just thinking, test what the natural limit is for the bigger houses and set it just above that so most people do not feel restricted like they do. Assuming the servers can handle it, as silly as it may sound but having extra lights on a ton of houses could potentially be an issue.
Another issue, for lighting specifically, is that we have so many wonderful smaller lights as well. I would love to place them on a desk but most of the time I have to stick with overhead lights because I barely have enough of those to keep my house lit up.
I was about to open a topic.These house item limits are too low.
I have a house in everfall and i can put only 200 items to my house, I want to use rugs, curtains, flowers, lights, premium items. But 200 is low and specific item limit is no sense. I am playing the game 4 hours arround daily. i really like to design my house but seriously, why the limits so low? As my research i can have more items in my house if my territory standind reachs to level 300. How i suppose to reach level 300? Do i must waste my all time for standing?
If i can not plant the items as i want in to my house why even i am buying premium items from store? Thats not make sense…
There may be some specific bonus at 300 territory standing to the furnishing item limit in your house that I have never heard of but it sounds to me that you read some misleading information in your research. Once in a while when you level up your standing in your territory you will be offered as one of the three reward options a bonus of +5 maximum decorations for you house in that territory. To give you an idea of how rare this is, yesterday I hit 66 standing in Ebonscale Reach and took my fourth such bonus offered and now have +20 max furnishings there. I suspect someone was exaggerating to make their point when they wrote you need 300 standing to raise the cap, but you definitely need to do a lot of work to make it happen.
As for the request for more lighting of the OP and others in almost every thread on the subject of housing decor I have seen, hell yes please! Devs are definitely erring on the side of darkness there.