LotRO introduces Player and Guild Housing
The Book 11 content update for Lord of the Rings Online introduces more than Gollum's first appearance, a Balrog to slay and class revamps for Minstrels and Lore-masters. It also introduces player and guild housing in a unique way.
There are four different racially-styled homesteads. The architecture, neighborhood and decorations are unique to each. But players are not restricted to only buying property sold by their own race. Elves can move into the Dwarven cave-like housing and Men can squeeze into Hobbit holes.
There are many kinds of housing available, including 16 different styles of personal housing, 10 more styles for the deluxe housing and 4 different styles for guild housing. Each neighborhood has a mix of two dozen or so housing types. Every time all the houses are purchased, a new instance is created with all nebw housing for sale.
And once you've purchased a place to call your own, you can go shopping for over 250 different decoration items. Some are vendor sold and some are player made. In a twist I have yet to see in another game, you can also buy decorations for outside you house (i.e. garden, etc.) For inside, you can place unique items such as stuffed bears and music boxes.
Perks for owning a house include an instant recall ability back to your place from anywhere in the game, discounts with the vendors in your neighborhood and the ability to store items in a chest located in your place.
The LotRO devs give a larger overview of the new housing on the official LotRO site. As players move in and decorate, I'm sure we'll soon be seeing great screenshots of their new homes.
Until then, check these Flash maps of each neighborhood and these videos of each homstead style at LotRO Vault.
