Britannia House Changes

This is part of Gorgans Britannia Testing Hub

Placement

 * House blueprints have been replaced by the new House Placement Tool [yardstick currently]
 * Houses now place as a preview prior to confirming or denying the placement, but will automatically decay after 30 seconds if not confirmed
 * Players will be charged from their bank at the time of placement, and partially refunded (20% loss, due to change) when demolishing, directly to the bank
 * House plots sizes are now predetermined, and houses no longer utilize large yards
 * House models that cannot be customized are marked as 'Classic', otherwise all other models will have parts of them that are customizable and blueprints can be obtained to unlock those options [TBD]

General

 * House Menu redesigned
 * Mailbox has been removed, but may return as an optional feature
 * Houses will now be refreshed automatically when a player logs in on a plot or in a house that they are at least friended to
 * Doors will now refuse to close when someone is standing in the way of the door [known issue with this not working right now]
 * Can no longer lock down/move items outside of the house, except for vendors
 * Cannot place vendors or lockdowns too closely to the house door
 * Reduced max-height decorate limit to prevent pushing things thru the new roofs (subject to change)
 * Vendors and guild stones can placed in a small section of yard in the front of the house for houses that have yards
 * Lockdown, Secure, Release buttons added to Decorate UI + options to place/move a Guildstone and a trash barrel
 * Demolishing a house will now automatically release all lockdowns; previously players were prevented from demolishing with items locked down

Lockdown/Secure Containers

 * When you lock down a container it is no longer "Secure" and is just "Locked Down"
 * New speech command: "i wish to secure this" to Secure containers
 * Items dropped into a locked down container will automatically be locked down; they can be released, but then can be taken by anyone
 * Secured containers can have items taken from them freely, by those with proper security permission
 * There is no limit to how many containers may be secure in your house [unlike UO]

Storage Limits

 * Houses now have a total Maximum Storage limit that is shown in the House Placement Tool window & in the house menu
 * Secured container contents do not count against the lockdown count, but will count against the total storage limit; this allows you to store more items in secure containers than you would be able to lock down individually, while still enforcing a total max limit
 * Every object locked down/secured in the house and/or inside of a container, counts towards the total storage
 * Houses now have a separate Lockdown limit that limits the amount of items that can be locked down individually in the house
 * Weight is no longer taken into consideration when attempting to drop items into containers in a house
 * You will not be able to lock down a container if it's item count would exceed the house's lockdown or storage limit
 * You will not be able to drop items into secure or lockdown containers when the storage limit has been met

Bug Fixes

 * Fixed an issue preventing players from adding friends while standing outside the house
 * Fixed an issue preventing co-owners and guildhouse co-owners from adding/removing friends
 * Fixed house placement (possibly others) not checking for bank checks properly
 * Updated names of roof pieces per feedback
 * Fixed sometimes being unable to start another trade after completing a house transfer (potentially others)
 * Fixed an issue with co-owners being able to change Owner-only secured objects to a lower security level
 * Fixed an issue with co-owners being able to release objects marked as Owner
 * House Privacy Setting has been disabled for now, and vendors can be placed in all houses now
 * Fixed being unable to move vet flags (potentially others) inside of house

Known Issues

 * The veteran banners deco seem to go outside of the walls slightly, for an unintended feature allowing you to hang your banners on the outside slightly :wink:
 * Walls, foundations, roof, will have a floating name like HOUSE, Roof, Walls for now during the testing phase, they will go away soon
 * Door currently does not block being closed when obstructed, and is being worked on