Housing

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Housing

A Tier 3 player house in the Thestran style.Vanguard players can build one house per account, which is shared between all characters on that account. Houses provide the player with additional inventory space and a place to comfortably exchange items between different characters, who can reach the house easily with a special teleport spell. The player can also give other players' characters access privileges, like permission to open doors in his house, or to place items into a chest.

The first step in building a house is to purchase one of the predefined, persistent house plots (housing, like virtually everything in Vanguard, is non-instanced,) located in various areas all over Telon. After purchase, the cost of which varies between housing areas (2.5, 10 or 30 gold), plots also requires a weekly upkeep (25, 60 or 90 silver). Building a Guild Hall requires purchasing a special guild hall plot which is much more expensive in both initial purchase (20, 30 or 40 plat) and weekly upkeep (20, 27 or 32 gold).

After owning the plot in question, the player chooses the house type he or she wants to build. Each continent has an list of four choices, between Tier 3 to Tier 5, which each require different crafted materials and have a different appearance than houses of other continental styles. Some materials can be purchased from housing merchant NPCs located in the housing areas, but most of them have to be crafted from harvested items. Guild halls come in two variants, and the required materials as well as the necessary crafting are much more extensive, requiring items from the highest level crafters and harvesters; additionally, the help of a high-level diplomat is required for guild housing.

Houses offer two types of inventories. First of all one can simply place items into them, called "fixtures". Any item can be placed into a house, even if many items show up as a simple default cup-like graphic, therefore one cannot graphically distinguish between them. Second, every house type allows a certain number of chests, 2 to 5 for normal houses, and 8 or 12 for guild halls.

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