ArcheAge, MMO sous CryEngine 3

Introduction:
ArcheAge has a complex and revolutionary housing system, where you are placing houses on the open world accessible to everyone, unlike in other MMOs where they are being instanced.

In ArcheAge players can build their own houses, with different types and sizes. They can be used as decoration, storage place, relaxing, crafting, safe spot from PK'ers...

Its possible to set permissions to the houses, like who you wan't to be able to enter, to use the storage chests, etc. There is a family system in the game too, so not everyone needs to have his/her own house, they can share the same one.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trSXNYOYHoQ[/media]


Building a House:
Building a house step by step:

1. Acquire a blueprint (buy from NPC).
   
2. Place down the foundation, rotate as you like while previewing it (after right clicking on the blueprint), to the direction you want the house to look. Each house has a circle of influence around it, where you can place things and have them be protected from theft. The circles must not overlap with other housing circles.
   
3. Make bundles of 100 wood or stone and carry them to the house, and use them to build the house, keep in mind that more exensive houses need more wood/stone. So get ready to walk a few times from the crafting station to your house, if the house is a bigger one, its adviced to ask freinds to help you out, since it takes too much time to build it alone. The simplest houses need 200 wood and 200 ore (4 times the walking), while the bigger once few thousand of mats (in CBT4 the biggest house costed 6000 wood and 6000 ore, but as sources tell it was reduced for CBT5, but its unknown to how much).
   
4. Now when the house is contructed, time to decorate it. Buy recipes from NPC and craft the objects.
   

Building the house CBT4:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3DsDnk9tqo[/media]
Building a House:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEZPMb2bgH4[/media]

Decorating the house CBT4:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdoVGOEbiQ[/media]
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtRT2Fo-ug[/media]

Building the biggest house CBT5:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qdtRT2Fo-ug[/media]


Housing Spots:
Houses can't be placed just anywhere around the map:

• Northern Continents: The houses can be built in a radius of 250m from the center of the controllable territory (flying sword).
  
• Southern Continents: The houses can be built on special housing areas.
  

Special Housing Areas:
They are lookated on the Southern Continents and also on islands, search for the icons on the zone maps, like for example:

There are planty of these housing areas around, they are not all the same size, some areas can support up to 200 houses, while others just a few. Usually the ones which are close to towns are the big ones, while the remote locations are the small.


Destroying, Loosing and Taxing Houses:
We don't know much about how this will work, so far the rumors are (not all being implemented during the CBT phases):

• On the Southern Continents (starting ones) there are no taxes for having a house, houses can't be destroyed.
  
• On the Northern Continents, when enemy takes over a territory they can demolish all houses built within a 100m radius from the center of the territory, also the ruler of the territory can set the tax rates for the houses, and if they are not being payed, the player will lose its housing spot (the house will be sent via mail, and can be constructed again).
  

This system still needs some polishing, its odd that players can't lose their house on the Northern Continents, imagine that someone builds a house, and then goes inactive, other actives could use that housing spot for themselves, instead it becomes just a "ghost house".



Asian-style Houses:

Price: 10 gold - Type One:








Price: 10 gold - Type Two:








Price: 100 gold










Price: 500 gold
















Western-style Houses:

Price: 10 gold








Price: 100 gold









Price: 150 gold











Price: 300 gold - Type One:









Price: 300 gold - Type Two:










Price: 300 gold - Type Three:









Price: 300 gold - Type Four:









Price: 500 gold - Type One:














Price: 500 gold - Type Two:














Price: 500 gold - Type Three:












Price: 1000 gold















Houses on Water:

Price: unknown









Video demonstrating the housing types:
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syoVh4JWgsg[/media]



[url="http://forums.goha.ru/showthread_0_0_t795007"]Source: Goha.ru - Обзор замков в ArcheAge[/url]

In ArcheAge we can build not just houses but Walls-Gates-Towers too, which together form a Castle.

Castles can be built only on the North Continent, they are not available for building on the two starting continents.

These objects can be placed in a radius up to 100m around the center (flying sword) at the controllable territories. Furhter from the center up to 250m, houses and farms can be placed (they can be placed inside in the castle too).

Their prices varies depending on types, there are more types of objects, like open/closed tower etc. check them on the pictures for more info.

Asian-style Castles:







Costs:

















Western-style Castles:







Costs: