Hi all,

I'm working on a new vendor shop (16x16). I've built the house, but honestly I can't decide if I like it or not. The design is based loosely on one I found on Stratics. Your feedback is appreciated! I have no problems whatsoever scrapping it and starting over. As for my own opinion, I'm going to sleep on it and see what I think in the morning... but here's what I'm thinking now.

This house is on the south/east side of the road, so the vendors should probably be placed as close to the road as possible. This design is backwards of that. However, it's pretty impossible to have road-facing vendors on this side of the street, unless you make it a one-level house. To compensate, I put a step at the front corner of the house near the road, where I'll put a vendor/announcement NPC to hopefully make it obvious that there are vendors here.

The vendors will go in the courtyard. I thought of possibly lining the 2nd floor landing with them, but it's only wide enough to walk. (Placing vendors would mean shoppers would have to stand on top of them, unless they shopped from downstairs).

The main floor is intended to become a rune library. The remainder of the house will pretty much be storage/private.

I'm open to ANY ideas for vendor house designs!!! I searched around and came up with zilch.

OK... here are the pics...

Exterior/courtyard


Exterior 2 (front garden area)


Level 1 (rune library)


Level 2


Level 3

If it's vendors along the road you want, there is always a way to do it.

I am probably the last person that should say such things, but couldn't you put the courtyard on the SW corner of your plot, making the portion of the house that now presides there "skinnier" and "shorter" by a few tiles and placing it in the SE corner so it wouldn't obstruct the entire view of the courtyard?

DiP's suggestion is good. Another would be to use a flat-roofed design and place the vendors along the side of the roof facing the road. I'm afraid if people don't actually SEE your vendors as they pass, they won't bother to stop.

Ya know, my fear of putting the courtyard on the SW was that the house would block it, but I never did TRY it. :-p

Actually, a flat roofed design might be the way to to.

I'm going to go wander around for inspiration I appreciate everyone's comments, as always!!!!!

OK here's what I'm going to try next. Sorry to whoever I got this picture from - I have no clue where I got it! (Probably either here or Stratics)

Basically, I'm going to try to do something like this, but delete the SW corner house and make that a vendor courtyard. Then, the back two north houses will be connected, and the bottom will be open like in the last version for vendor expansion/rune library. Then the SE corner house will be separate and private.

This looks like it was originally on an 18x18 plot, so I'm not sure it's going to work on a 16x16, but I'll find out!!

*goes cross eyed* Those are both wonderful looking houses! As for Vendor houses, like Eo said, if you cant see the vendor and they're easy to get to, I don't bother stopping. I would maybe just make your house on the right and leave a open space on the left for vendors?

btw... *IS JEALOUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS* POLar Bearrrrrrrrs!!!!!!!!!

Snuggs - I will say this out loud only because I think you'll appreciate it (though I will likely brand myself as a dork for all eternity), but the polar bears are SO cute! When they run, they sort of gallop all clumsy like a real polar bear, and they have fat little butts that wiggle when they run

hehe I agree

Dork!! haha, j/k

hahaaha

*points up* Those two are so bad! *grins*

Not as bad as peaking at polar bear butts...