Ways to Improve Construction

[The Dark Lord]

Hello. As you may have noticed, Construction is no longer a very popular skill. Most people only get the bare essentials (gilded altar, menagerie, and teleportals) and then stop adding onto their would-be mansions.

 

However, I do think that there are some things that will greatly benefit the skill and allow for more festivity and more popularity.

 

#1: Ground texture customization

 

Currently, you can only change the appearance of the ground in your house by switching between a desert or Fremennik theme. The rest of the designs have the same ground texture. The problem arises because we cannot decorate the ground of our house. For example, the Fremennik ground texture is perfect for Halloween, but most people would rather keep the current appearance of their house itself. How come the Real Estate manager won't just allow us to customize the ground? He let's us redecorate our homes.

 

In addition to allowing us customize the ground in our POHs, Jagex should also add more textures, including snow. This will allow players to be more festive during the holidays, and it will allow players to customize their homes to their liking, which is a main theme in the Construction skill.

 

#2: Other Festive Suggestions

 

In addition to the aforementioned ground texture suggestion, people should also be able to add more things to their gardens in order to increase the level of festivity in their homes.

 

For example, we could decorate our homes for Christmas by placing a frozen fountain in our garden, add Snow Imp statues, or build snowmen. Likewise, a player may be able to place gravestones inside their gardens (along with an iron railing fence and dead trees) for Halloween. The ideas are almost endless!

 

This suggestion (along with the first one) would allow for more festive Christmas/Halloween parties that players throw during the holidays. Not only would this improve the appearance of a person's POH, but it would also allow for more exciting player interaction!

 

#3: The Armoury

 

This new room would be a very similar concept to the already-existing Quest Hall and Skill Trophies rooms. Ever since Construction came out, players have always decorated their signatures on fansites with pixel art depicting the player in a room with different weapons and armour mounted on the wall. I believe that this would be a great way to show off our equipment by having them hang from a wall in our house. Of course, the room should be coded in a way that we can retrieve our items in the same fashion as we are able to retrieve our costumes from the Costume Room. Likewise, this should be distinctly different from the Costume Room as well. Like the Quest Hall, we should be able to visually display our items. Who wouldn't like to go into their house and show off their shiny dragon longsword that's mounted on the wall or their Dragon Chainmail?

 

(This should also apply to the new Dungeoneering equipment that we can receive as rewards.)

 

This suggestion would also allow members to keep their banks more organized and less cluttered.

 

#4: The Marketplace

 

This is an alternative suggestion for the Player-Owned Shop concept that existed before the Grand Exchange came into existence. Basically, a player could put some items on sale at a small store located inside his house. When a person throws a house party, they could put items on sale (which would not be tied in with the Grand Exchange itself but still keep the same values from the GE) and perhaps attract customers via their house parties.

 

#5: The Tavern

 

The Tavern would be a new room for the house. Basically, you can build your own pub and customize it with different wall portraits or different-styled chairs and tables. You can even hire an NPC bartender to work at your tavern.

 

#6: More Monsters and Customizable Dungeons

 

I'll be straightforward: we need more monsters. These are some monsters that I think should be implemented into the Construction skill:

 

For Treasure rooms:

-Black Demon

-Mithril Dragon

-King Black Dragon (miniature version)

-Giant Hydra

-Barrows Brothers

 

Dungeon guards:

-Ghosts

-Bloodvelds

-Shadows (requiring Mourning's Ends Pt 2)

-Dagganoths

-Waterfiends

-Ice Fiends

 

Dungeon textures (refer to Suggestion #1):

-Ice (similar to the style of the God Wars Dungeon)

-Barrows Brother's Crypt

-Catacombs

 

#7: More teleportals

 

We should be able to build portals to more places, including:

 

-The various Ancient Magicks teleport locations (with a warning message for the Wilderness portals)

-Lunar Magicks destinations

-Daemonheim

-The Digsite

-Ape Atoll

 

#8: The 'Clan House' System

 

This is an old suggestion of mine. Basically, clans should be allowed to form their own guilds (similar to other MMO games). For example, the leader of the clan may designate his house as the new clan guild. He can grant permission to any of his clanmates to enter his POH when he is offline or in a different area of Gielinor. This would make it more convenient for clan members to meet up in a secret rendezvous place, and it would make it convenient for clan members to make use of the leader's lectern or gilded altar.

 

#9: Miscellaneous suggestions:

 

-Allow people to water flowers in their formal gardens

-Allow people to cut their trees and harvest the wood

-Add area sounds to Magic Trees (the music box-like sound)

-Allow trees to be planted inside formal gardens

 

 

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If you like any of these suggestions, please keep my thread on RSOF bumped:

 

185-186-855-60829301

 

 

Thank you.

[Hedgehog]

[under Construction]

Nice pun.

 

Pretty good ideas so far, can't wait for more.

[paul191600]

I think that construction needs an update like this soon :)

[Faiylen]

These ideas are brilliant! My house is decorated with the basic stone texture, but I've never really liked the dungeon textures for that theme - I'd very much like to be able to choose both individually. Love the new room ideas, especially the armoury, but also (you may have wrote it, and I may have missed it) we should be able to pack up furniture (particularly things like demonic thrones, steel dragons!) - untradeable still, of course - but be able to place them elsewhere later on.

 

Other little things too like moving and rotating rooms and gardens, all of those things would make building up a house that bit more bearable!

[Skeptical]

Some cool ideas. Nothing revolutionary, but it would make it cooler.

[The Dark Lord]

Bump.