Flipping... What do people want?

[Jenny]

Remolding the houses is boring without that sidebar with people telling you what they want. Maybe it is something I have not unlocked yet. Flipping the houses is kinda pointless without this.

[Splintercat]

This is one of the biggest issues I've had, I've tried flipping a few houses but I have no idea what makes one worth more than another. I heard a few people didn't like the feedback system in the first game but having no feedback at all is way worse.

[Clemmox]

I came here for this. I don't know if I'm doing things right or not, or if I could be making more money. Some feedback while flipping (even if a different system than the first game) is pretty necessary imo.

[Angel]

Personally, I don't care what others want or think, so I turned off the buyers' comments in HF1. To me, it's all about the creativity, and being in the moment with that. Now there's a way to keep my creative outpourings, without having to worry about potential buyers. I love that. And in story mode I put in way to much effort in doing a place up, and then when I have to sell it I go "oh, bummer!", but that's okay.

So maybe this game needs what HF1 had (and better), meaningful feedback from buyers, as well as an option to turn that off.

[Calistrasza]

The only thing the buyers in HF1 were good for was getting achievements. Once you got all the achievements, there's literally no point in even keeping their commentary on.

[G.S.90s]

I found the buyers to be a nuisance, as it in a way was annoying with the commentary, stiffling creativity. And, for me, some buyers purchased the house I sold more often than others. Who are these people, and why buying all the houses?! I think it's better without.

[Tam]

So what do the buyers want? Is 20K profit decent? I can't resell a house once I sell it so I can see if it's worth more if I do x or y. At least with the buyers I could see what I needed to do.

[JU1173]

Originally posted by Tam:

So what do the buyers want? Is 20K profit decent? I can't resell a house once I sell it so I can see if it's worth more if I do x or y. At least with the buyers I could see what I needed to do.

If you go to the houses tab, there are three tabs. Owned, for sale, and sold. You can go into the sold tab and click on any house you already sold, and buy it again in it's original state.

I don't know what works either. I was getting between 5,000-60,000 profit a house, but the last one I sold for 122,000 and change profit.

I spent hours just completely redoing the place, for fun. Had no idea I would get that much profit. It was the Flooded Summer House in Crayfish Coast, in case anyone was wondering which house it was.

[ToolDaddy]

i bought a house, cleaned it out. Thought, im going to check what i can earn by just cleaning it. got a bid of 10k. Wich is decent for so little work. Then i went all in and redid the whole building. Ended up with a bid of negative 9k. Im bamboozled

[Crow]

The original buyers absolutely had some problems, but there's no way to know what things make a house worth more or not except by guess and check. I think some sort of feedback system giving you an idea of whether something you just did was good or bad for the purpose of people buying it would fix this.

I personally liked the idea of the buyers because sometimes the creative juices just aren't flowing, and I don't have any ideas of what I want to make a house like, I just want to zone out and make it nice. Having buyers with specific wants in mind gave just enough of a prompt that I could do that.

My suggestion is generate a few randomized bidders every time someone starts a house, that want different amounts of space, cost, color schemes, general vibes, specific types of rooms, that kind of thing, and show the player a couple of them so they can follow a prompt if they want. Maybe have there be more potential buyers visible with the seller upgrades to get more bidders? And build it so that the randomized buyers are all wanting an appropriate amount of rooms/space for the house you're working on. No huge family trying to bid on a tiny trailer, no single person wanting a small space bidding on a mansion, etc. Cause THAT was the big problem with the buyers in HF1, that they'd act really illogically.

Definitely with an option to turn it off, since I know many just want to make the house however they want and don't care about the buyers.

[Jenny]

Creativity is fine for the first few houses... Then its just boring... I completed all the jobs then went to go flip the houses... After 3 houses I have totally lost interest in the game... Without the feedback or some type of goal for flipping... its boring... I might as well clean my real life house!