Only games i have ever seen give houses are ******* and ******** they are other games not servers but i still put in stars becouse of forum rule and no i will not whisp it to you only if you are a admin or higher rank. I lve your idea about the houses altho. If one of you guys is a wery good programmer maybe he can make the houses custimaisebble: changing wall colors or styles, furniture, doors open and close that is an important feature for me i like my privacy, carpet, wooden or stone interior and so on.........just to give the players an opertunity to play with their imagination. But offcorse make some special items that can only be bought by donation and the less cool stuff fo gold or vote point. Im not applying that you have to make all this its just an idea. It will atract players. If i come up with other stuff i will tell you doom. Maybe if i download gothic and play it through maybe i will find intereasting things........well see you later.
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Well just if you want close neighbors 