Wyntre@Kithicor wrote:
Are you saying that people who go into my house that don't have the adventure pack won't see my bed, but will simply see my teddy bear floating on nothing since it's an item from a quest in that adventure pack? 
Interesting.
No ... all the wantia furniture that can currently be placed in your home has already been globalized and can be seen and enjoyed by everybody.
However, most of the items in the screenshots on the first page are not globalized and IF they were made into furniture they would not be visible to people who didn't purchase this content unless it too was globalized first. And no, we definitely can't have furniture invisible to some people and not others, that would be horribly buggy. Imagine trying to walk through a room full of invisible furniture!
The majority of "furniture" you see in this adventure pack is not really furniture from the point of view of the game. At this point, it is just decoration, just like any other part of the art in a zone. It's no different from a tree or a rock or a lump of mud, it just happens to look chair or table shaped to our human eyes. From the game's point of view it's just a blob of landscape, and from the game's point of view, it does not make sense for people who will never, ever enter that zone to have to spend time downloading that tree, that rock, that lump of mud, or that chair. There is no question of "punishing" anybody for anything. People who enter that zone should be able to enjoy and admire the art in it, and people who don't should be able to not have to sit staring at the patcher downloading lots of files they will never see.
The only time a question ever arises about the way this works is when someone says "hey, I'd like to take this bit of artwork out of this zone and put it in another zone" (whether that artwork is something that looks like a chair or something that looks like a lump of mud, it is all the same to the game). When that happens, then we have to make sure that particular bit of art work is now downloaded by everybody who can see it in the new zone, and that's what we call globalizing it. Even if that's done however, there's a whole separate process involved in making an art asset into house-placeable furniture, and globalizing that art so everyone can see it is only a small part of that.
The art assets pictured on the first page of this thread are not furniture items from the game's perspective (even though they may look like it to you and me) and even if everybody who ever played the game had purchased this adventure pack they still wouldn't be available as house furniture without me or someone else doing a bit of work to convert them into something the game actually recognizes as a house-placeable furniture item instead of just a blob of landscape in a zone. So it's not that there's a bunch of furniture out there in Mara that exists but you just can't use because it's not global -- no indeed. There simply is NO furniture out there in Mara at all yet, beyond what we already have placeable in our homes (the bed, the armoires, the lantern). All there is in Mara right now is a bunch of blobs of art work in the zone, which might potentially be able to be turned into furniture at a later date if someone did the work and also if we made those art assets globally accessible, but right now it's just bits of zone decoration and not accessible to anyone to place anywhere, regardless of what content they have purchased.
Hope that clarifies things a bit rather than confusing everybody more.
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(DominoDev) Re:Wantia Furniture Request
